Making Connections in Text_ENGLISH 9.pptx

Making Connections in Reading

1. Making connections is a reading comprehension strategy that helps students find meaning in a text by connecting it to their background knowledge. When you relate a text to another text, you need to evaluate its different elements leading to more critical thinking. Therefore, knowing how to make connections between texts can help you become a better reader or writer.

2. Three Types of Connections o Text-to-Self -- connections between the text and the reader’s life and experiences Example : I can relate to this article because I remembered by self when….. o Text-to-Text -- connections between the text and other books, movies, songs, plays, articles Example: This song reminded me of the poem I once read. o Text-to-World -- connections between the text and events in the real world and history Example: The story I read yesterday clearly links to what is happening to humanity today.

3. I felt the same way as Trisha when I lost my mother.

4. The Covid-19 pandemic is somewhat similar to the Wall Street Crash that happened in the United States of America and other parts of the world.

5. What is happening right now is similar to what I read a year ago.

6. This book reminds me of the time I cooked with my mother.

7. The story reminds me of a vacation we had in my grandparent’s house in Gapan City.

8. I read another book about spiders that explained spiders have venom.

9. I saw from the news how the pandemic affects the economy of many countries.

10. I can see myself in the situation of the character in the story.

11. I saw a program on TV that talks about things described in this article.

12. Relate this video in your life using text-to-self connection, or relate it to a movie/book that you have watched/read using text-to-text connection. Text-to-self I can relate the video to my life because……… Text-to-text The video is similar to the movie I have watched entitled “________________” because………….

13. deferred – delayed; postponed Example: Spain has deferred the war.

14. raisin – dried grape

15. fester - to become infected and form pus sore – one with the tissues ruptured or abraded and usually with infection

16. Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load, Or does it explode?

17. What is your dream in life? When do you think you will achieve it? What are you going to do in order to achieve your dream? My dream in life is _______________________. I think, I will be able to achieve this dream after __________________. In order to achieve my dream, I will ______________________________.

18. Summary Plot Overview of “A Raisin in the Sun” By: Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. This money comes from the deceased Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Each of the adult members of the family has an idea as to what he or she would like to do with this money.

19. The matriarch of the family, Mama, wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with her husband. Mama’s son, Walter Lee, would rather use the money to invest in a liquor store with his friends. He believes that the investment will solve the family’s financial problems forever. Walter’s wife, Ruth, agrees with Mama, however, and hopes that she and Walter can provide more space and opportunity for their son, Travis.

20. Finally, Beneatha, Walter’s sister and Mama’s daughter, wants to use the money for her medical school tuition. She also wishes that her family members were not so interested in joining the white world. Beneatha instead tries to find her identity by looking back to the past and to Africa.

21. As the play progresses, the Youngers clashed over their competing dreams. Ruth discovers that she is pregnant but fears that if she has the child, she will put more financial pressure on her family members. When Walter says nothing to Ruth’s admission that she is considering abortion, Mama puts a down payment on a house for the whole family. She believes that a bigger, brighter dwelling will help them all. This house is in Clybourne Park, an entirely white neighborhood.

22. When the Youngers’ future neighbors find out that the Youngers are moving in, they send Mr. Lindner, from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, to offer the Youngers money in return for staying away. The Youngers refuse the deal, even after Walter loses the rest of the money ($6,500) to his friend Willy Harris, who persuades Walter to invest in the liquor store and then runs off with his cash.

23. Directions: The CoVid-19 pandemic has affected the dreams of many Filipinos today. Analyze the illustrations below and write a brief Text to World Connections.

24. The Man With the Hoe by Edwin Markham

25. The poem can be considered a protest poem, one that is concerned with social justice. Specifically, the poet is concerned with the treatment of the working class. Jean-François Millet’s painting, L’homme a la houe , depicts an exhausted peasant man working in a field. It was meant to highlight the plight of the working class and was considered very controversial at the time. Inspired by this painting, Edwin Markham wrote the poem “The Man with the Hoe.” Markham’s poem describes a hopeless laborer who is treated more like a beast than a human being.

26. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

27. Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of Eternity? Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And marked their ways upon the ancient deep? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this—

28. More tongued with censure of the world’s blind greed— More filled with signs and portents for the soul— More fraught with danger to the universe. What gulfs between him and the seraphim! Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? What the long reaches of the peaks of song, The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose? Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time’s tragedy is in that aching stoop;

29. Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned and disinherited, Cries protest to the Judges of the World, A protest that is also prophecy. O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched ? How will you ever straighten up this shape;

30. Touch it again with immortality; Give back the upward looking and the light; Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Make right the immemorial infamies, Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world? How will it be with kingdoms and with kings— With those who shaped him to the thing he is— When this dumb Terror shall reply to God After the silence of the centuries?

31. Thank You, Ma’am Langston Hughes Mrs. Jones is walking home one night, when a boy tries to snatch her purse. But she is a large woman and so he is not able to overpower her to take the purse, but merely breaks its strap. Mrs. Jones takes him by his collar and asks him if he isn't ashamed of himself. He says he is ashamed. She then takes him to her home and makes him wash his face. She asks him about his home, and he tells her that he has no proper home, or anybody to take care of him.

32. She then gives him dinner, after asking him if he was hungry, and answering herself saying that he must be, since he tried to snatch her purse. But he instead, quite surprisingly, says that he wanted money not for food, but rather to buy some blue suede shoes. To this, she surprises him by saying that he could have asked her for the money. She tells him, “I were young once and I wanted things I could not get... I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son."

33. She then heats some lima beans and ham, makes cocoa, and gives him dinner. During dinner she doesn't ask the boy anything about where he lived, or his folks, or anything else that would embarrass him. Instead, as they ate, she tells him about her job in a hotel beauty-shop, what the work was like.

34. After dinner is finished, she gives him ten dollars to buy the shoes he wanted, and asks him to behave from then on, and not snatch anybody's purse anymore. The boy wanted to say something else other than “Thank you, Ma’am” to Mrs. Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door. He barely managed to say “Thank you” before she shut the door. And he never saw her again.

35. 1. How did Mrs. Jones react when Roger tries to steal her purse? 2. Was her reaction believable? Why or why not? 3. What did she do to the boy? 4. Why did Roger get involve with crime at an early age? 5. Do you think Roger’s encounter with Mrs. Jones changed his life? In what way?