Outline for Study:

Objective: analyze impact of culture on POV

Students:

• take notes on background information in text (p3)
• Modern Day Israel:
  • various groups clash over internal boundaries of Israel
  • Israeli gov’t have control over most of land
  • Yonatan wouldn’t have trouble visiting cities located outside holy contested West bank area (Tel Aviv and Ashdod)
  • BUT
  • Yonatan would have trouble interviewing people living in Palestinian- controlled cities because of protective wall.
  • Israel vs. HAMAS (Palestine)
    • Basics:
      •  fight over Holy Land (Jerusalem)
        • map
          • 
      • Jewish people given land after horrible atrocities of WWII/ Holocaust
      • Palestinian people want legal Palestinian nation. Haven’t received it
    • Who Should You Know?
      • Israeli PM- Benjamin Netanyahu
        • 
      • Palestinian Authority- Mahmoud Abbas
        • 
      • HAMAS– acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement”
        • terrorist group in eyes of Western World/ Israel
        • 

• Wall dividing Israel and Palestinian territory

• Another look at each perspective:

• War on its way again?

As We Read:

• Read first 2 paragraphs and summarize what you know so far about Yoni’s project.
• Key vocab: what does “poignant” mean? How will Yoni’s plans to create a film be poignant?
• Click on ” Close Read” icon in your digital textbook
  • view screencast
  • write notes on the techniques reader uses to close read the text
  • let’s do the next paragraph (p4)
• Idiom= “Cash out”
  • what does this mean?
• Cite evidence to help you fully understand Yoni’s character and intentions. Use the Characterization Chart below.

• While looking at the teacher’s outline of the story, create a Characterization Chart for Sergei. How does he differ from Yonatan?
• Analyze: How does Sergei’s culture impact his POV in “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?”

Honor’s Extension:

• Research: Find a fairy tale with either a similar OR different central idea (theme) than our short story.
  • Step 1: In paragraph format, explain the similarities or differences. You MUST use textual evidence in your explanation. In addition to fully elaborating, use in-text citations for the information pulled from the folktale.
  • Step 2: Exchange your fairy tale with a partner. Read the new tale you have been given and then synthesize the idea presented in each text. Use the following questions to aid your synthesis:
    • 1st paragraph: summarize each text.
    • 2nd paragraph: What do the texts have in common? How are the different? Central ideas?
    • 3rd paragraph: Make broader connections. What do the themes presented say about the world we live in? How do the central ideas presented in the text relate to real life?
• Making Connections: Draw a political cartoon  to compare the relationship between the Israelis and Palestinians in real- life and how they interact in the story.