Transcript Raymond’s Run by: Toni Cade Bambara

Identify the story elements
 Read the selection
 Answer reading comprehension questions
 Connect to personal experience
 Infer and predict
 Learn new vocabulary words and apply them
 Compare and contrast
 Analyze the story
 Write a Journal entry
 Visualize characters
 Complete different activities
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Toni Cade Bambara:
 Her real name was Miltona Mirkin Cade
 Was born on March 25, 1939 in New York, and
died on December 9, 1995 at the age of 56 in
Alabama.
 She grew up in Harlem, N.Y.
 She was a writer, documentary-film maker,
political activist, educator
 Notable work: Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird
 Her work was influenced by the Civil Rights
and Black Nationalist movements of the 1960s
Toni Cade Bambara
reading the short story
The Lesson
 relay
 psyching
 hydrocephalus
 squeaky
 clutch
 stagecoach
 prodigy
 tightrope
 sidekick
 gutter
 ventriloquist
 liable
 periscope
 dash
 glockenspiels
CSF is cerebrospinal fluid
that is inside your brain and
circulates around the brain
and the spinal cord,
nourishing and protecting
them
 Hydrocephalus (sometimes
called water on the brain)
occurs when too much CSF
builds up in the ventricles,
causing head enlargement
and/or increased pressure
inside the head.

This pressure doesn’t
allow the brain to
fully develop causing
a mental disability.
 Hydrocephalus occurs
in about two of every
1,000 births.

Hydrocephalus can be
congenital (presented at
birth) or acquired.
 Hydrocephalus can also
occur with other congenital
conditions, such as spina
bifida, that are associated
with brain and spinal-cord
problems.
 Acquired hydrocephalus
develops after birth.

Causes include brain
hemorrhage,
meningitis, head
trauma, tumors and
cysts.
 Premature babies are
at greater risks of
experiencing brain
hemorrhages.

http://www.gillettechildrens.org/file
upload/Hydrocephalus.pdf
Click here to access the story
http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/HoltEOL2/Collection%201/raymond5.htm
 The
story takes place in Harlem, New York
Describe each one:
 Squeaky
 Raymond
 Gretchen
 Mary
 Rosie
Louise
 Cynthia
Procter
 Mr. Pearson
Try to visualize each
character and create a
drawing for each one.
Let’s try to start
visualizing the main
character, Squeaky.
She is a girl with dark
skin, has skinny arms, and
a squeaky voice
In your assessment notebook, visualize the
rest of the characters including Squeaky.
Make a drawing for each one, color them, and
write their names: real name and nicknames
if any.
Color it!
Click here to play a game related
to the story:
http://www.quia.com/rr/509208.html
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