Guiding Comprehension

Draw Conclusions

• Inferential

Are Pablo's parents from the same culture? How do you know?

No; his mother is from Mexico, and his father speaks a different language called Yiddish, which he learned from his family in New York City.

Sequence • Literal

List the steps in preparing bagels for the oven.

1. Mix the dough in a big metal
bowl. 2. Roll out the dough into a
long rope shape. 3. Cut off pieces
of the dough and connect the
ends in a circle. 4. Place the
circles on trays and let them sit
and rise.

Summarize • Critical

Text to World Summarize how foods from different cultures become popular in our culture.

Summaries should include how
families pass on traditional recipes
to their children and start
businesses that serve their
traditional foods to the public.

STRATEGY SELF-CHECK

Summarize

Ask students to use information in the
first half of this story to draw
conclusions about how foods from
different cultures are shared. Tell
students to then use their conclusions
to summarize how these foods have
become popular in our country.
(Possible responses: People from
different cultures continue to eat their
traditional foods after they move to
America. They have learned from older members of their family how to
prepare these foods. They even open
shops that sell these foods to others
in their culture. Before long, the foods
become popular with the general
public.)

SELF-CHECK

Students can ask themselves these
questions to assess their ability to use the skill and strategy.

Did I draw conclusions about the information in the first half of the story?
How did this help me summarize?

then… revisit the skill lesson on p. 220. Reteach as necessary.

If… students have difficulty drawing conclusions or summarizing,

Summarize

Check Predictions Provide the following
prompt: Was your prediction accurate?
Revise your old prediction or make a
new prediction about the rest of the
selection.

If you want to teach this selection in two sessions, stop here.

"Jalapeño Bagels"
by Natasha Wing

Student Edition
Unit 5, pp. 224–237

Realistic fiction tells about events that could happen in real life. Does anything in this Selection Snapshot remind you of an event from your own life?

Pablo's school is having an International Day on Monday, and all the children are bringing something from their culture. Mama tells Pablo he can bring a treat from the family's bakery. He can come to the bakery on Sunday and help Mama and Papa bake. Then he can choose a treat for International Day. Pablo thinks this is a good idea.
Early Sunday morning, the family walks to the bakery. First, Pablo and Mama make pan dulce. Mama makes the best Mexican sweet bread. After all the ingredients are mixed, Mama and Pablo knead the sweet bread dough. Then they form rolls and loaves and put them in the oven. Pablo thinks about taking pan dulce to school for International Day.
Then Mama and Pablo make pumpkin turnovers, another Mexican treat. People come to the bakery just to buy Mama's delicious turnovers. Pablo thinks of taking them to school. Pablo helps Mama make chango bars. He puts extra chocolate chips into the dough so the batch of chango bars will be extra special. He thinks about taking chango bars to school.
Then Pablo helps Papa. He is making challa, using Bubbe's recipe. Bubbe is the Yiddish word for Grandmother, and challa is a Jewish braided bread. Pablo thinks about taking the braided bread to school.
Then Papa begins to make bagels. He rolls the dough into a long rope. He cuts it into pieces and connects the ends of the pieces so they look like doughnuts. The dough is allowed to rise. Papa boils the bagels, sprinkles them with toppings, and puts them in the oven. Pablo likes to eat them with cream cheese and jam. Papa likes to eat lox with them, but Pablo does not like fish with his bagels. Pablo thinks about taking bagels to school for International Day.
Mama and Papa work together to make one kind of treat—jalapeño bagels. Mama cuts the jalapeño peppers. She puts them and bits of dried red peppers into the dough Papa makes. Then they form and cook the bagels.
Mama tells Pablo that he must decide what treat to take to school. They need to set it aside so no one buys it. Pablo looks at the wonderful Mexican treats. He looks at the delicious challa and bagels. It's a hard decision. Then he makes up his mind.
"I will take jalapeño bagels to school for International Day. They are a mixture of two great cultures, just like me!"



	Close
	Build Background Explain to students that Yiddish is the language of the Jewish people from central and eastern Europe. For more information on Yiddish, see Time for Social Studies on p. 233. PRACTICE LESSON VOCABULARY As a class, complete the following sentences orally. *If you wanted to buy some cookies, would you go to a bakery* or a library?** (Bakery) If you mix flour, water, salt, and yeast, will you create soup or dough? (Dough) *To follow a recipe, do you need to gather all the ingredients* or all the pieces?** (Ingredients) BUILD CONCEPT VOCABULARY Review previous concept words with students. Ask if students have met any words today in their reading or elsewhere that they would like to add to the Concept Web.

"Jalapeño Bagels"by Natasha Wing

"Jalapeño Bagels"
by Natasha Wing