Inside Language, Literacy, and Content [Level C]

Connect Reading and Writing

Critical Thinking

1. SUM IT UP Make a Beginning-Middle-End chart for the selection. Use the chart to retell the story.

Beginning-Middle-End Chart
2. Speculate Do you think Mr. García will ever arrest Ana’s father? Explain.
3. Generalize Think about what you read about the dictator in this story and what you know about other dictators. Tell two things that are true for all or most dictators.
4. Compare Both Ana and Farah experienced violent situations. Do you think one situation was worse than the other? Explain.

Reading Fluency

Expression Read the passage on page 584 to a partner. Assess your fluency.

1. I read
- a. great
- b. OK
- c. not very well
2. What I did best in my reading was______.

Reading Strategy

Vocabulary Review

Oral Review Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

Alberto Pérez keeps a ________ about some people who are active in _________. Those heroes try to come to the ________, to save their country from Trujillo’s iron grip. Trujillo was the ________ of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961. If people tried to ________ against him, the police could ________ them. Police actions could be mean and ________. In May 1961, Trujillo himself was murdered, but problems continued. Not until many years later, when fair elections began, could people begin to be ________ about the future.

Written Review Imagine that you are living in the Dominican Republic during the 1950s and are organizing against the government. Write a report. Use five vocabulary words.

Write About the Guiding Question

Explore the Struggle for Freedom

What do you think the Pérez family is willing to do for the sake of freedom from the dictator? Use details from the text to support your response.