Guiding Comprehension

If you are teaching the selection in two days, discuss the story so far, including conclusions students have drawn, and review the vocabulary.

Vocabulary

• Unfamiliar Words

Name an unfamiliar word on
p. 232 and state its meaning.

Possible response: challah, Jewish braided bread.

then… use the skill instruction on
p. 233.

If… students cannot define an unfamiliar word,

Unfamiliar Words

Draw Conclusions

• Inferential

Why do you think Pablo cannot decide what food to take to school?

Possible responses: He likes all the food at the bakery and from his cultures.

Recall Details • Literal

What is Pablo's father's favorite bagel?

His favorite bagel is a pumpernickel bagel with a smear of cream cheese and lox.

Whole Group Discuss the Question of the Day.

Jalapeño Bagels. See pp. 220f–220g for the small group lesson plan.

Reading

Group Time
Differentiated Instruction

Use pp. 243e–243h and
243k–243m.

Whole Group Discuss the Reader Response questions
on p. 238. Then use p. 243a.

Language Arts

Grouping Options

VOCABULARY SKILL

Unfamiliar
Words

TEACH

Explain to students that an author will often italicize an unfamiliar word and define it immediately. This is especially true if the word is from a different language. Advise students to read on to find the meaning of any unfamiliar words they come across. Model what to do when you encounter an unfamiliar word in the story.

MODEL In the first sentence on p. 232, I see the italicized word challah. When I read on, I notice its definition—Jewish braided bread. Now I can continue reading without confusion over word meaning.

PRACTICE AND ASSESS

Have students find an unfamiliar word on p. 233 and state its meaning. (Possible response: lox; smoked salmon.)

Have students look up traditional Jewish food on the Internet to learn what some Jewish families enjoy eating.

"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!"



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	Build Background Explain that pumpernickel is a coarse, dark brown bread made of unsifted rye flour. Pumpernickel bagels with cream cheese and lox are a favorite among some Jewish people. Language Yiddish is the language of central and eastern European Jews. It began in Germany sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries and has many words in common with German. From its beginning, Yiddish was used both in the marketplace and the university. By the 19th century, Yiddish had been carried to all the world's continents as people moved out of Eastern Europe. It nearly disappeared from use when six million European Jews died during World War II. Later Stalin, the ruler of the Soviet Union, outlawed Yiddish. Today small populations of Jews in places like New York City and Israel still speak Yiddish. It is also being taught in universities around the world.

"Jalapeño Bagels"by Natasha Wing

"Jalapeño Bagels"
by Natasha Wing