Essential and guiding questions:
Text-Dependent Questions:
- What were the reasons implied in the text for the boys to be playing with cans and broomsticks instead of bats and balls?
- Using evidence from the text discuss some of the life lessons Roberto learned from his father.-Using details from the text, explain why the year 1954 not a happy time for Roberto.
- Using context clues from the text determine the meaning of “Puerto Rican hotdog”. Explain using details why Roberto was called that?
- What point according to the text was Roberto trying to make when he left the furniture store without buying anything?
- Citing evidence from the text, why didn’t people think he could get 3,000 hits in the 1972 season?
- What details from the text show the reader that the other players are hoping Roberto gets his 3000th hit?
- In what way does the text imply that Roberto’s father was a role model for Roberto?
- How does the title of this story let the reader know how people felt about Roberto?
