OCR3

OCR3: LESSON 7 STUDY GUIDE

SPELLING: THE /k/, /ch/, /s/, and /j/ Sounds

generous	general	century	check	nickel
heroic	judge	manage	image	twice
spruce	advice	watch	scratch	branch
gesture	gently	pieces	touching	dangerous

VOCABULARY

gored

amputation

infirmary

listlessly

feebly

shock (2!)

gesture

Assignments:

Assignment #1______________

(Neatly and correctly write the vocabulary word and its definition in your Language Arts spiral notebook.

Assignment #2___________

Answer Study Guide questions 1—5, neatly and completely. Use our “boomerang answer” format. Use vocabulary words in your responses (underline or highlight the words).

Assignment #3__________

Answer Study Guide Questions 6—10, neatly and completely . Use our “boomerang answer” format. Try to use vocabulary words in your response (underline or highlight the words).

Assignment #4

Challenge A: Write at least a one-paragraph response to question 8, fully stating the comparisons and giving detailed evidence to support the comparisons.

Challenge B: Write at least a one-paragraph response to the footnote information at the bottom of this page. Clearly and fully summarize the author’s comment and then give clear, detailed comparisons which relate her comments to El Magnifico and Manola.

Study Guide Questions:

Answer fully and completely.

(From Book) What would it be like if there were no doctors? How can doctors stay calm when someone is in great pain?

1. What medical care does El Magnifico FIRST receive?

2. Why do you think the doctor wanted Manola to see El Magnifico’s wounds?

3. How does Manola feel about his “destiny” to become a bullfighter?

4. What do you think Manola would like to do when he grows up?

5. Put yourself in Manola’s shoes when he is listening to the men discussing the pain that’s involved in being gored by a bull. If you knew you would one day be expected to fight a bull, how do you think you might feel?

6. The doctor also said, “The tragedy is that boys like him know of nothing else they want to do. I’ve grown old looking at wasted lives.” What do you think he meant?

7. What do you think the doctor meant when he said, “…The beast is led into the ring, [but] the man walks in himself.”?

8. Explain the similarity between many inner city boys who aspire to become NBA players and the boys in the story who aspire to become bull fighters?

On page 318, author Maia Wojciechowska is quoted as saying that Shadow of a Bull was, “…mostly about pride and being locked in…The word pride encompasses so much—honor and dignity and self-esteem. That sort of pride sometimes—most of the time—makes life harder than it needs to be, but without pride, life is less…” Explain how these comments apply to El Magnifico and Manola.