Bridging

Bridging Text and Context Questions.

For these questions write an 80-100 words essay.

Make sure to bring examples from the text.

The examples should be connected to details from the information in the question.

Use a marker to help you.

Here is a structure you can use:

The information I have read has helped me understand the story / characters better. I will explain how. The information tells me that…. Now I understand why in the story…..

• 1. "Many first generation Americans, like Bernard Malamud, valued education as a path to opportunity for themselves and their children." – (From an interview for The Paris Review with Bernard Malamud by Daniel Stern.)                                                                                                 Explain how this quote adds to your understanding of the story

  2. Bernard Malamud was the son of hard-working Jewish immigrants, who said," There comes a time in a man's life where to get where he has to go –if there are no doors or windows, he walks through the wall"(Malamud) Explain how the message of the story "A Summer's Reading" reflects this philosophy.

  3. Bernard Malamud wrote many of his stories about the immigrants' hard life in New York in the 1930's .He is known for teaching moral lessons in his stories. How is this information connected to the story?

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