Oksana Melnyk
Prof. Carol Brutza
ESL 178
November 7, 2013
ARC Process “Tito’s Good-bye”
1. In this story we will read about Tito’s last minutes of life.
2. Garcia lived with her daughter Pillar in Los Angeles and taught at Mills College in Oakland, California. In 2009, Garcia was hired as the Visiting Affiliate Professor and Black Mountain Institute Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she has been hired for one year as a visiting professor. She has taught at numerous other colleges, including the University of Texas-Austin, Texas Tech University, and Texas State University-San Marcos, where she is the 2012-14 University Chair in Creative Writing.
3. Vocabulary words:
Indigestion-an unpleasant feeling in your stomach or chest that is caused by difficulty in digesting food
Endurance-the ability to deal with pain or suffering that continues for a long time
Stout- having a large body that is wide with fat or muscles
Squalid-very dirty and unpleasant; immoral or dishonest
Forge-a place where objects are made by heating and shaping metal
Thwarting-to prevent (someone) from doing something or to stop (something) from happening
Asylum- protection given by a government to someone who has left another country in order to escape being harmed
Deliberate-to think about or discuss something very carefully in order to make a decision
Elaborately-made or done with great care or with much detail
Steadfastly-very devoted or loyal to a person, belief, or cause: not changing
4. 8 Wh-questions:
a. Who is Cristina Garsia?
b. Who was Augustin Urena?
c. Where Tito was having a dinner?
d. What was the word that Tito screamed?
e. Where did Tito work?
f. Who was Tito’s wife?
g. How many children Tito had?
h. What did happen with Tito?
5.Cluster
6. Annotation in the book
7.Double entry notes
Tito is a very wealthy lawyer.
“Charging many thousands of dollars, payable in monthly installments (“I am not an unreasonable man.”).”p.(159)
He believed that earning money is a pleasure, and as long as he is making tons of money, then he is happy.
Haydee, she was a very cold-blooded wife of Tito.
“Haydee
