Guiding Comprehension

Draw Conclusions • Critical

How do Pablo's parents combine their cultures in creating jalapeño bagels?

Pablo's father uses his Jewish recipe for bagels, and his mother adds ingredients common in Mexican cooking.

then… use the skill and strategy instruction on
p. 235.

If… students are unable to draw conclusions,

Draw Conclusions

Predict • Inferential

What food item do you think Pablo will choose? Why?

Possible response: jalapeño bagels because that is the name of the story

SKILLS

STRATEGIES IN CONTEXT

Draw Conclusions Summarize

TEACH

Read p. 234. Remind students to draw conclusions by making a decision or forming an opinion about what the story says. Ask students how each parent contributes to the making of jalapeño bagels. (The father uses his recipe for bagels passed down from his Jewish grandmother; the mother adds ingredients common to Mexican cooking—jalapeño chiles and dried red peppers.) Use this information to write a summary about families formed from different cultures.

MODEL The story mentions that Pablo's parents have their own special recipe for jalapeño bagels. I notice that Papa contributes his recipe for the dough and that Mama contributes the spices—the jalapeño chiles and dried red peppers. Their contributions come from their cultures—Jewish and Mexican. Now I'll take this conclusion and write a summary about families formed from different cultures. My summary is that families formed from different cultures often combine traditions to create new traditions of their own.

PRACTICE AND ASSESS

Have students draw a conclusion about Pablo's comment to his father on p. 233. (Possible response: Pablo jokes with his father about his favorite bagel, which includes lox—a food Pablo dislikes.) Then have students use this conclusion to write a summary about their overall relationship. (Possible response: Pablo and his father enjoy working together at the bakery and like joking with each other.) To assess, make sure that summaries include conclusions that students have drawn and are written in their own words.

"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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	Activate Prior Knowledge Ask students if they have ever had to make a decision about something but found it difficult because there were too many choices. Encourage them to discuss how they made a decision. Ask if they were happy with their decision or if they would make a different decision today and why. Food When Eastern European Jews came to America in the 1880s, they brought the bagel with them. The American bagel industry began in the early 1900s in New York City with the formation of the International Bakers Union. These 300 bakers limited union membership to their sons to protect the secrets of bagel baking. Bagels soon became so popular in New York and New Jersey that bakers took their business to other parts of the country. Bagel-baking machines increased production to meet the demand. By the mid-1900s, prepackaged and frozen bagels became available at grocery stores. Today many varieties of bagels are available—spinach, blueberry, onion, sesame seed, and even the "everything" bagel.

"Jalapeño Bagels"by Natasha Wing

"Jalapeño Bagels"
by Natasha Wing