This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary from the modern fable and play, The Baker's Neighbor. In this play, the neighborhood baker Manuel bakes delicious smelling pastries and puts them out for sale each morning, but his neighbor, Pablo, loves to smell the fresh bakery every morning without purchasing any pastries. This irritates Manuel to the point where he feels Pable should pay to smell his baked goods, and Manuel takes his complain to the town judge who eventually offers a ruling that allows Manuel to get the pleasure of "touching" Pablo's gold coins in return for Pable "smelling" the bakery.

This is a must-watch for high school teachers and students.

Watch this 45-minute session to review the content, tools, and workflows at the Gale Literature Resource Center.

The Gale Literature Resource Center provide biographies, work overviews, full-text criticism, multimedia materials, and author reviews from all eras. Intuitive research tools like Person Search, Topic Finder, and Google/Microsoft Integration support learners and researchers high school aged and above.

This resource list consists of Novel (F)/Non-Fiction (NF)/Play (P)/Movie (M) Choices for grades 10-12.  It was created by the Sun West School Division ELA PLT 2020-2021.