This document provides instructions for analyzing and responding to Chapter 20 of a novel. It outlines the tasks of writing a summary highlighting three important events, including three relevant quotes, and defining a difficult vocabulary word encountered in the chapter. An example analysis of Chapter 19 is also provided, with a three-point summary, three example quotes, and a definition of "reminiscing".

1. Chapter Analysis
Responsibility

2. Today’s Lesson: Culture
• Mark Roll
• Lesson Outline
• Why? Syllabus, task
• Task today: Analysis & Response to chapter 20
• Looking Back at chapter 19
• Reading Chapter 20.
• Writing up your response to chapter 20.

3. Why?

4. Syllabus link
• Student questions, challenges and evaluates
cultural assumptions in texts and their effects
on meaning.
• Student transfers understanding of language
concepts into new and different contexts .

5. YEAR 10 ENGLISH SPEECH TASK
• In your speech you will need to look at issues
in your own novel.
• In class today will discus and work as
individuals to expand on issues in a common
text
• You need to work on your presentation skills
and audience skills.

6. Writing it Up!
• Summary: Three important events.
• Quotes: Three Quotes
• Vocabulary: A difficult word defined.
• Let’s look at a chapter 19 chapter analysis.

7. Chapter 19 Summary: Tomato Day!
• Josie and her family have a tradition that they have to make
their own pasta and sauce to go with it, this is when the
whole tomato thing comes into place every year on a
specific day all the family comes together and they pick
tomatoes for the sauce, they squash them by hand and
then cook them and then squash them again.
• Robert and I call this day “Wog day” or “National Wog
day”. Nonna and Zia started to tell the story about Marcus
Sandford and how he helped them with the garden while
the men where at camp.
• This chapter reveals that Josie and her family get on very
well when they aren’t fighting and telling others what to do
and how to do it, we also get to see that Josie’s family loves
to carry out tradition.

8. Important Quotations
• "I thought that maybe if I spoke to someone they would feel sorry
for us and send u back one man. Maybe all out husbands." (pg 174)
• "Marcus walked through holding something in his arms. He was
crying. I was crying. Patrizia was crying. We walked towards him
looking at what he had in his arms." (pg 175)
• "Like all tomato days we had spaghetti that night. Made by our own
hands. A tradition that we'll never let go. A tradition that I probably
will never let go of either, simply because like religion, culture is
nailed into you so deep you can't escape it. No matter how far you
run." (pg 175)

9. Definition of difficult words
encountered
• reminiscing - to recall past experiences or
events