Chapter 7: "The Boxing Match"

Literary Term:

• epiphany: sudden realization, insight

Reader's Theater to page 116: Narrator, Manny, Lencho, Albert

Read to the end silently, charting and creating and answering Three Level Questions.

Discuss the first complete paragraph on page119.

• Question: What is Manny's job? How is this predictable?
  
• Answer: Trainer. Always the helper, not the doer. He is the watcher, the disciplinarian.

Discuss: At the end of the boxing match Manny has an epiphany that "the whole fight shouldn't have been given so much meaning..."(138)

Reread and comment.

Answer: Again shows himself to be introspective, thoughtful, humane

Chart: "the whole fight shouldn't have been given so much meaning..."(138): Interior Monologue: introspective, sensitive

Chapter 8: "Family Affair"

Read silently to page 146.

Read out loud to 151.

Discuss: How is Magda treated at the hospital? (149)

Read silently to the end of the chapter.

• Question: How else does Manny show himself to be a caring, responsible family member in this chapter?
  
• Answer: Insists that his mother take Magda to the hospital, goes with them, insists again despite being hit by his mother. Maturing.

Read silently to the end creating and answering Three Level Questions.

Chart: Insists on taking Magda to hospital: Dialogue: Responsible, caring

Chapter 9: "Dying of Love"

Read silently to page 164.

• Question: How does Manny again come through for the family, this time for Nardo?
  
• Answer: Assists Nardo with his job as a delivery boy for Gidden's Pharmacy. (161)

With partners read as in Forget's Listener/Teller to the end of the chapter. (See Chapter 3)

• Question: Who copied this quote: "That's when my skin blazing, I stomped out the door, knowing that their teasing wasn't going to let up." (172)
  
• Question: What does it say about Manny?
  
• Answer: Emotional, easily embarrassed, sensitive
  
• Question: Manny had been warned not to go to the party, but he went and he got hurt. What does his insistence say about him?
  
• Answer: Recklessly attracted. Infatuated. Adventuresome.

Chart:

• Goes to party even though warned not to: Action: Recklessly attracted. Infatuated. Adventuresome.
  
• "That's when my skin blazing, I stomped out the door, knowing that their teasing wasn't going to let up.": Action: Emotional, Avoids conflict.