Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarz a A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway &
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Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway
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The plan….• Objectives• Review
– Barrio Boy & A Day’s Wait– Ernesto Galarza & Ernest Hemingway
• Compare and Contrast• Fill in the Table• Complete the Venn Diagram• Evaluation
– Questions
• Homework– Unfinished Classwork
• Preview: All Summer in a Day
Objectives• Students will develop compare and
contrast skills
• Students will demonstrate reading and listening comprehension skills by completing graphic organizers
• Barrio Boy tells about an important real event in the writer’s life.
• A Day’s Wait is the story of an imagined boy on a single day.
• Ernesto Galarza» When he was seven years old, Ernesto Galarza
moved form Mexico to California. There his fam-ily harvested crops in the field of Sacramento and struggled to make ends meet. Galarza learned English quickly and won a scholarship for college.
» Helping farm workers from 1936 to 1947, Galarza served as chief of the division of Labor and Social information for the Pan-American Union, dealing with education and labor in Latin America. When he returned to California, he worked to gain rights for farm workers.
Ernest Hemingway
A true adventurer, Ernest Hemingway based much of his writing on his own experiences. He served as an ambulance driver in World War I, worked as a journalist, traveled the world, and enjoyed outdoor sports.
Writing about the familiar, Hemingway’s fiction celebrated his spirit of adventure. The story “ A Day’s Wait” captures the quite bravery of many of his characters.
Fiction and Nonfiction• Fiction is prose writing that tells about imagi-
nary characters and events. – Novels, novellas, and short stories are types of fic-
tion.
• Nonfiction is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about REAL people, places, objects, or events.– News articles, essays, and historical accounts are
types of nonfiction.
• Barrio Boy – Nonfiction (narrative)
• About real people • Has characters
• A Day’s Wait– fiction (narrative).
• About imaginary char-acters
• Has characters
Both selections are examples of narrative writing. They each tell a story with the following elements.• A narrator that tells the
story.• Characters, or real people
living the story.• Dialogue, or the
conversations that characters have
• Story events that make up the action
Compare and Contrast
Barrio Boy
Real charac-ters
Both
Characters
A Day’s Wait
Imaginary
characters
Title
Author
Style & Genre
Narrator (1st person or 3rd)
Characters
Setting
Where? when?
What is the problem?
Why? Did the character have a problem?
Important Events
Which events make up the action of the story?
What is the solution?
How did the character solve the problem? How was it solved?
Lesson
What did the characters or readers learn?
How are the stories the same or similar?
Evaluation:
How are the stories different?
Complete the table and Venn diagram
Classwork/Homework:
All Summer in a Day
Preview:
The End