UNIT X UNIT 3 | 95 Reading • Understand vocabulary in context Direct students’ attention to embarrassed on page 95. Ask: Who can remind us what embarrassed means? Let’s look at the words around it: feeling a little embarrassed. If necessary, students can turn back to page 86 for a visual reminder. Ask: Is embarrassed something Kiki is feeling? Why? (Kiki is feeling embarrassed because she implied that she and her parents weren’t as much a part of the Pueblo as her grandma because they lived in the city. Her grandma reminds her that even though she doesn’t live on the reservation, she is still connected to it and it is part of her roots.) • Use text features to aid comprehension Review the illustration on page 95. Ask: What is different about the Pueblo than the city? Why do you think Kiki finds it beautiful? What hard work do you think Kiki’s ancestors did to keep the Pueblo for her and future generations? • Connect to self Have students share with the class their opinions about living in a city or living in a pueblo or small village. Ask: Has anyone ever lived in a small village? Has anyone lived in a large city? Ask students who have had these experiences to share something about them with the class. Have students try to imagine life in a small village and say something they would like and something they would not like about it. • Check In Recall relevant details Discuss the questions as a class. Then have students respond to the questions independently, reminding them to locate relevant details in the text to support their responses. ANSWERS Sample answers: 1. The blond boy stares at her and then whispers to his friend. The tour continues and they walk through the village and learn about the Blue Lake. Afterwards, Kiki’s grandma picks her up. 2. Grandma says Kiki is lucky because the village is hers, too. PRACTICE DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Be aware that some students may need a little more time to prepare their oral answers to the Check In questions. Read the questions aloud and then tell students to think about and formulate their answers in pairs before discussing them as a class. Amplify Have students brainstorm what work Kiki’s ancestors might have done to keep the village for her and future generations. Remind students to think about how many Native Americans lost land as settlers moved into their territory. Ask: Why was it hard for many groups of Native Americans to keep their villages and land for future generations? What can we infer from how the Pueblo looks? Do you think keeping it so beautiful is easy? (Many settlers stole land and fought with Native Americans for their land. So Kiki’s ancestors probably had to fight to keep people from stealing their land. Also, keeping the Pueblo and traditional buildings in good shape is not easy; you have to teach each generation how to build and maintain the Pueblo.) After the tour, Grandma Santana met me outside the gift shop. I held her soft, wrinkled hand in mine as we walked through the village. “Well, what did you think? We have a beautiful village here, don’t we?” she asked. “You sure do, Grandma. You’re lucky,” I said. Grandma stopped and looked at me. “What do you mean, I am lucky?” she said. “This village belongs to you, too. We are lucky, Kiki. So many of our ancestors have worked so hard to keep this place for our people. And not just for me or for you, but for the generations of Tiwa to come.” I looked into her eyes, feeling a little embarrassed. “But it’s been so long since I’ve been here, Grandma. I don’t even remember it.” I wondered how Grandma felt about Mom, Dad, and me living so far away, trying to be Tiwa and living in the city at the same time. CHECK IN 1. Sequence What happens after Kiki joins the tour? 2. Comprehension Why does Grandma say Kiki is lucky? 95 UNIT 3 Kiki’s Journey UNIT 3 / READING
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