Read the passage below (from Gertrude Stein's Three Lives) with accuracy and fluency. Discuss any unfamiliar words from the passage and what strategies you used to understand them.
Lena?s German voice when she knocked and called the family in the morning was as awakening, as soothing, and as
appealing, as a delicate soft breeze in midday, summer. She stood in the hallway every morning a long time in her
unexpectant and unsuffering German patience calling to the young ones to get up. She would call and wait a long time
and then call again, always even, gentle, patient, while the young ones fell back often into that precious, tense, last bit of
sleeping that gives a strength of joyous vigor in the young, over them that have come to the readiness of middle age, in
their awakening.