In this play, the neighborhood baker Manuel bakes delicious smelling pastries and puts them out for sale each morning, but his neighbor, Pablo, loves to smell the fresh pastries every morning without purchasing any. This irritates Manuel to the point where he feels Pablo should pay to smell his baked goods, and Manuel takes his complaint to the town judge who eventually offers a ruling that allows Manuel to get the pleasure of “touching” Pablo’s gold coins in return for Pablo “smelling” the bakery. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trophies, 2005)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.