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["SCHOLASTIC TM READING SKILLSCOMPREHENSION Level 10","TM Level Reading Skill 12 Making Connections READING 10 Unit 9 Making Connections \u2013 Text to World SKILLSCOMPREHENSION STUDENT CARD 1 LESSON 1 Unit 9: Making Connections \u2013 Text to World Read the passage. \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN 978-981-4808-85-9Les Mis\u00e9rables bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the heart of the cabbage\u2014to give to one of her children. As SCHOLASTICby Victor Hugo (adapted) he went on eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his long Photo: \u00a9 masa 44 \/ Shutterstock.comJean Valjean came from a poor peasanthair falling about his bowl and concealing his family of Brie. He had not learned to read in his eyes, he had the air of perceiving nothing childhood. When he reached man\u2019s estate, he and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not became a tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the was named Jeanne Mathieu; his father was other side of the lane, a farmer\u2019s wife named called Jean Valjean or Vlajean. Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually famished, sometimes went to borrow from Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in their mother\u2019s not gloomy disposition which constitutes the name, which they drank behind a hedge or peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the in some alley corner, snatching the jug from whole, however, there was something decidedly each other so hastily that the little girls spilled sluggish and insignificant about Jean Valjean in it on their aprons and down their necks. If appearance, at least. He had lost his father and their mother had known of this marauding, mother at a very early age. His mother had died she would have punished the delinquents of a milk fever, which had not been properly severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly attended to. His father, a tree-pruner, like paid Marie-Claude for the pint of milk behind himself, had been killed by a fall from a tree. All their mother\u2019s back, and the children were not that remained to Jean Valjean was a sister older punished. than himself\u2014a widow with seven children, boys and girls. This sister had brought up Jean In pruning season he earned eighteen sous Valjean, and so long as she had a husband she a day; then he hired out as a hay-maker, as lodged and fed her young brother. laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did whatever he could. His sister worked The husband died. The eldest of the seven also but what could she do with seven little children was eight years old. The youngest, one. children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was being gradually annihilated. Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty- A very hard winter came. Jean had no work and fifth year. He took the father\u2019s place, and, in his the family had no bread. No bread literally! turn, supported the sister who had brought him up. This was done simply as a duty and even One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the a little churlishly on the part of Jean Valjean. baker on the Church Square at Faverolles, was Thus his youth had been spent in rude and ill- preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent paid toil. He had never known a \u201ckind woman blow on the grated front of his shop. He arrived friend\u201d in his native parts. He had not had the in time to see an arm passed through a hole time to fall in love. made by a blow from a fist, through the grating He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from his bowl while he was eating\u2014a 1 1050L","and the glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread On the 22nd of April, 1796, the victory of and carried it off. Isabeau ran out in haste; the Montenotte, won by the general-in-chief of the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau army of Italy, Buona-Parte, was announced in ran after him and stopped him. The thief Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley- had flung away the loaf, but his arm was still slaves was put in chains at Bicetre. Jean Valjean bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. formed a part of that gang. An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was still recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch taken before the tribunals of the time for theft who was chained to the end of the fourth line, and breaking and entering an inhabited house in the north angle of the courtyard. He was at night. He had a gun which he used better seated on the ground like the others. He did than anyone else in the world, he was a bit of a not seem to comprehend his position, except poacher, and this injured his case. There exists that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, a legitimate prejudice against poachers. The was disentangling from amid the vague ideas of poacher, like the smuggler, smacks too strongly a poor man, ignorant of everything, something of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was cursorily, there is still an abyss between these being riveted behind his head with heavy blows races of men and the hideous assassin of the from the hammer, he wept, his tears stifled him, towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the they impeded his speech; he only managed to smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. say from time to time, \u201cI was a tree-pruner at The cities make ferocious men because they Faverolles.\u201d Then still sobbing, he raised his make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, and right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, the forest make savage men; they develop the as though he were touching in succession seven fierce side, but often without destroying the heads of unequal heights, and from this gesture humane side. it was divined that the thing which he had done, whatever it was, he had done for the sake of Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty and clothing and nourishing seven little children. was condemned to five years in the galleys. SCHOLASTIC \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN 978-981-4808-85-9 A. Complete the graphic organizer to connect the text to its historical context. Time period: Place: Historical context: From the text My knowledge about the historical context 2","TM Level Reading Skill 12 Making Connections READING 10 Unit 9 Making Connections \u2013 Text to World SKILLSCOMPREHENSION STUDENT CARD 2A LESSON 2 Unit 9: Making Connections \u2013 Text to World Read thReepaadstshaegep.assage. \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116434 Oliver Twist (excerpt) Charles Dickens SCHOLASTIC The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes. Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more\u2014except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides. The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the copper, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon. Boys have generally excellent appetites. Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn\u2019t been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next to him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age. He had a wild, hungry eye; and they implicitly believed him. A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist. The evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook\u2019s uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: \u201cPlease, sir, I want some more.\u201d 1 1020L","The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralyzed with wonder; the boys with fear. \u201cWhat!\u201d said the master at length, in a faint voice. \u201cPlease, sir,\u201d replied Oliver, \u201cI want some more.\u201d The master aimed a blow at Oliver\u2019s head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arm; and shrieked aloud for the beadle. The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when Mr. Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said, \u201cMr. Limbkins, I beg your pardon, sir! Oliver Twist has asked for some more!\u201d There was a general start. Horror was depicted on every countenance. \u201cFor more!\u201d said Mr. Limbkins. \u201cCompose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly. Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?\u201d \u201cHe did, sir,\u201d replied Bumble. \u201cThat boy will be hung,\u201d said the gentleman in the white waistcoat. \u201cI know that boy will be hung.\u201d Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman\u2019s opinion. An animated discussion took place. Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish. In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling. \u201cI never was more convinced of anything in my life,\u201d said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, as he knocked at the gate and read the bill next morning: \u201cI never was more convinced of anything in my life, than I am that that boy will come to be hung.\u201d SCHOLASTIC Glossary \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116434 Word Meaning allotted the amount someone is allowed to have appetites desires to eat astonishment a feeling of being very surprised devoured ate quickly because one is very greedy or very hungry gruel a thin porridge made by boiling oats with water or milk, commonly eaten by poor people long ago misery extreme unhappiness, especially because of di\ufb03culties pauper a very poor person rebel someone who does not follow the rules reckless not caring about possible dangers or negative e\ufb00ects of one\u2019s actions solemn very serious 2","Check your understanding Literal A. Write the letter to answer the question. 1. Who served the gruel at mealtimes? a. Oliver Twist b. the master c. Mr. Limbkins 2. What did the boys do after \ufb01nishing their gruel? a. sucked their \ufb01ngers b. tapped their spoons c. thanked the cook 3. For how many months had Oliver Twist been at the workhouse? a. 1 b. 3 c. 6 4. How did the gentlemen feel when they found out what Oliver Twist did? a. suspicious and scared b. regretful and sad c. shocked and angry 5. What would someone receive if they took Oliver Twist away from the parish? a. a thank-you note b. some money c. some food Inferential\u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116434 B. Write the answer in full sentences. SCHOLASTIC 1. Why don\u2019t the boys\u2019 bowls ever need to be washed? 2. Why did the boys wink at Oliver at the end of one of the meals? 3. Why did the gentleman in the white waistcoat think that Oliver Twist would be hanged? Think about it! C. What do you think the other boys did after Oliver Twist asked for more food? What would you do in this situation? Word work D. Write the word to complete the sentence. 1. If the ( gruel \/ rebel \/ solemn ) keeps breaking the law, it will lead to trouble. 2. To everyone\u2019s ( astonishment \/ allotted \/ reckless ), PHP 500 million in public funds will be ( devoured \/ solemn \/ allotted ) to a program aimed at helping small businesses. 3. The children had such huge ( pauper \/ appetites \/ astonishment ) that they ( misery \/ rebel \/ devoured ) the food without saying a word. 4. The ( appetites \/ pauper \/ gruel ) begging in the street had a(n) ( solemn \/ devoured \/ astonishment ) face. 5. It was ( reckless \/ misery \/ appetites ) behavior to run in the kitchen carrying the steaming pot of ( reckless \/ gruel \/ pauper ). 3","Post-reading activity SCHOLASTIC E. Draw an organizer like the one you completed on Student Card 1. When and where does \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116434 Oliver Twist take place? What is the historical context of that time? Complete the top box. What parts of the text relate to the historical context? Write excerpts from the text in the column on the left. Write the connections to the historical context in the column on the right. Write now F. Plan a narrative text that takes place in a speci\ufb01c time period. Think about the historical context and then plan a beginning, middle, and end that connects to that context. Time period: Place: Historical context: Beginning Introduce the characters, establish the setting, and provide background information about the problem. Middle The characters face a problem. End The problem is resolved, or the problem has an e\ufb00ect. 4","TM Level Reading Skill 12 Making Connections READING 10 Unit 9 Making Connections \u2013 Text to World SKILLSCOMPREHENSION STUDENT CARD 2B LESSON 2 Unit 9: Making Connections \u2013 Text to World Read the passage. GrThee at Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (excerpt) \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116441There was music from my neighbor\u2019s house through verandas are gaudy with primary colors, and hair shorn the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of SCHOLASTICcame and went like moths among the whisperings Castile. The bar is in full swing, and \ufb02oating rounds of and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is Photo: \u00a9 anastasiia ivanova\/Shutterstock.comafternoon I watched his guests diving from the toweralive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the meetings between women who never knew each other\u2019s Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. names. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away the morning and long past midnight, while his station from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing- prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and ravages of the night before. form in the same breath; already there are wanderers, con\ufb01dent girls who weave here and there among the Every Friday \ufb01ve crates of oranges and lemons stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous arrived from a fruiterer in New York\u2014every Monday moment the center of a group, and then, excited with these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the voices and color under the constantly changing light. kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two Suddenly one of the gypsies, in trembling opal, hundred times by a butler\u2019s thumb. seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and, moving her hands like Frisco, dances out At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush; the down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby\u2019s and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news enormous garden. On bu\ufb00et tables, garnished with goes around that she is Gilda Gray\u2019s understudy from glistening hors-d\u2019oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded the FOLLIES. The party has begun. against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar I believe that on the \ufb01rst night I went to Gatsby\u2019s with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins house I was one of the few guests who had actually and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that been invited. People were not invited \u2014 they went there. most of his female guests were too young to know one They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long from another. Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby\u2019s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who By seven o\u2019clock the orchestra has arrived, no knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves thin \ufb01ve-piece a\ufb00air, but a whole pitful of oboes and according to the rules of behavior associated with trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with have come in from the beach now and are dressing a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission. upstairs; the cars from New York are parked \ufb01ve deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and I had been actually invited. A chau\ufb00eur in a uniform of robin\u2019s-egg blue crossed my lawn early that 1 1290L","Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his \u201cDid you keep it?\u201d asked Jordan. employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby\u2019s, it said, \u201cSure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was if I would attend his \u201clittle party.\u201d that night. He had seen too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue me several times, and had intended to call on me long with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-\ufb01ve dollars.\u201d before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had \u201cThere\u2019s something funny about a fellow that\u2019ll do a prevented it\u2014signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand. thing like that,\u201d said the other girl eagerly. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t want any trouble with \u201cANYbody.\u201d Dressed up in white \ufb02annels I went over to his lawn \u201cWho doesn\u2019t?\u201d I inquired. a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at \u201cGatsby. Somebody told me \u2014\u2014\u201d ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn\u2019t know \u2014 The two girls and Jordan leaned together though here and there was a face I had noticed on the con\ufb01dentially. commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number \u201cSomebody told me they thought he killed a man of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all once.\u201d looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure bent forward and listened eagerly. that they were selling something: bonds or insurance \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s so much THAT,\u201d argued Lucille or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of skeptically; \u201cit\u2019s more that he was a German spy during the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was the war.\u201d theirs for a few words in the right key. One of the men nodded in con\ufb01rmation. \u201cI heard that from a man who knew all about him, As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to \ufb01nd my grew up with him in Germany,\u201d he assured us positively. host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his \u201cOh, no,\u201d said the \ufb01rst girl, \u201cit couldn\u2019t be that, whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and because he was in the American army during the war.\u201d As denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward that I slunk o\ufb00 in the direction of the cocktail table \u2014 the with enthusiasm. \u201cYou look at him sometimes when he only place in the garden where a single man could linger thinks nobody\u2019s looking at him. I\u2019ll bet he killed a man.\u201d without looking purposeless and alone. She narrowed her eyes and shivered. Lucille shivered. We all turned and looked around for Gatsby. It was *** testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that \u201cI like to come,\u201d Lucille said. \u201cI never care what I there were whispers about him from those who found do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world. tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and SCHOLASTIC address \u2014 inside of a week I got a package from Croirier\u2019s with a new evening gown in it.\u201d \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116441 Glossary Word Meaning caterers people whose job it is to prepare and supply food for parties and large events con\ufb01dentially secretly or privately erroneous has mistakes garnished added something as a decoration, especially with reference to food gaudy overly decorated, over-the-top, in bad taste peculiar strange or unusual ravages damage caused by violence of some kind scampered ran or moved in a quick and sometimes playful way toiled worked very hard for a long period of time verandas areas along the outside of a house that have a roof but are open to the air 2","Check your understanding Literal A. Write the letter to answer the question. 1. What happened on Mondays at Gatsby\u2019s house? a. people came for a party b. workers cleaned up the mess c. food was delivered for a party 2. How was music provided at Gatsby\u2019s parties? a. by a 5-piece band b. by a whole orchestra c. by a singer with a guitar 3. How is the narrator di\ufb00erent from most of the other guests at the party? a. He was formally invited. b. He has known Gatsby his whole life. c. He does not like music. 4. What was the \ufb01rst thing the narrator did when he arrived at Gatsby\u2019s party? \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116441 a. asked for a drink b. met Lucille and Jordan c. looked for Gatsby SCHOLASTIC 5. What did Gatsby give to Lucille? a. a new dress b. a pair of earrings c. a fancy hat Inferential B. Write the answer in full sentences. 1. Is Gatsby a wealthy man? How do you know? 2. Why is laughter at Gatsby\u2019s parties \u201ceasier minute by minute\u201d? 3. Why are there so many rumors about Gatsby? Think about it! C. Would you like to have Gatsby as a neighbor? Why or why not? Word work D. Write the word(s) to complete the sentence. 1. When I turned on the light, a mouse ( scampered \/ peculiar \/ toiled ) under the sofa. 2. Details about the patient should be discussed ( erroneous \/ servants \/ con\ufb01dentially ). 3. I thought the woman looked ( toiled \/ peculiar \/ scampered ) because she was wearing an enormous hat with pink feathers and large ( gaudy \/ erroneous \/ caterers ) jewelry. 4. When the ( caterers \/ verandas \/ con\ufb01dentially ) brought out the food, I noticed that the grilled squid was ( servants \/ garnished \/ toiled ) with spring onions. 3","5. The reporters for the Philippine Daily Inquirer ( garnished \/ scampered \/ toiled ) SCHOLASTIC all night to make sure the newspaper did not contain any ( gaudy \/ peculiar \/ erroneous ) information. \u00a9 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd 9781000116441 Post-reading activity E. Draw an organizer like the one you completed on Student Card 1. When and where does The Great Gatsby take place? What is the historical context of that time? Complete the top box. What parts of the text relate to the historical context? Write excerpts from the text in the column on the left. Write the connections to the historical context in the column on the right. Write now F. Plan a narrative text that takes place in a speci\ufb01c time period. Think about the historical context and then plan a beginning, middle, and end that connects to that context. Time period: Place: Historical context: Beginning Introduce the characters, establish the setting, and provide background information about the problem. Middle The characters face a problem. End The problem is resolved, or the problem has an e\ufb00ect. 4"]