"What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?" Vocabulary

“All that, combined with the three wishes, and maybe he’d end up with a poignant piece of the social commentary, a testament to the massive rift between our dreams and the often compromised reality in which we live.”

• Basic

• Stimulating

• Boring

• Potent

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Onto this shot he’d superimpose the subject’s name, family situation, monthly income, and maybe even the party he’d voted for in the last election.”

• Covering up one image with another image

• Making sure that both images are not visible by the audience

• Allowing two images to be viewed even though they are on top of each other

• Creating an emotional image that will bring the audience to tears

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

“One drawn, wizened old lady asked simply for a child.”

• Old

• Wise

• Blind

• Wrinkled

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CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

“Maybe somewhere in the city some beleaguered Arab man would stand in his doorway and, looking through Yonatan and his camera, looking out into nothingness, just pause for a minute, nod his head, and wish for peace—that would be something to see.”

• Wise

• Troubled

• Content

• Angry

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“With a little decent footage, he was sure he’d be able to sell it to Channel 8 or Discovery in a flash, either as a film or as a bunch of vignettes, little cinematic corners, each with that singular soul standing in a doorway, followed by three killer wishes, precious, every one.”

• Trailer

• Movies

• Documentary

• Short Film

“Yonatan could hardly imagine what people were dreaming of in the development towns and the collectives along the northern border, in the West Bank settlements and Arab villages, the immigrant absorption centers full of broken trailers and tired people left to broil out in the desert sun.”

• A big city

• A community

• A village

• A collection

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

“Yes. Mine’s supergreat,” the goldfish says, sounding impatient.

“I’m a magic fish. I’m fluent in everything.”

• Intelligent

• Able to express oneself

• Knowing more than one language

• The ability to understand any language

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

“Yonatan knew that if the project was going to have any weight, he’d have to get everyone, to the unemployed, to the ultra religious, to the Arabs and Ethiopians and American expats.”

• American citizens

• People living in a foreign country

• Someone that committed treason

• Someone that is a citizen of Israel

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3