It's not easy to ask for help. Learn why a boy on a ship struggles with accepting help in "The Glass of Milk," a short story by Manuel Rojas. Six discussion questions prompt class members to make inferences from the text about character motivations and themes from the story.

Concepts

making inferences, reading comprehension, short stories

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have class members read the story at home, take notes on the questions, and come to class ready for discussion the next day
• The final question would make a good argument or narrative essay

Classroom Considerations

• Story is ten pages long; consider printing up a class set to use through multiple classes, or distributing the URL for learners to access on personal devices
• Resource is designed for high schoolers, but middle schoolers could handle the text complexity

Pros

• Questions provide page numbers to selected text for easy reference
• Passage is double-spaced, making the text more accessible for struggling readers

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.10a RL.11-12.1 RL.11-12.2 RL.11-12.10a