Unit 1: Close Reading Skills

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Unit 1 Close Reading Skills

• Talking to the Text and Reading with a Purpose

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Skills / Routines of Annotating

• 1. Write in the margins
• 2. Make summary/organization notes
• 3. Underline key words
• 4. Circle unknown words and write replacement
  synonym in the margin
• 5. Ask questions to clarify, to point out your
  interest
• 6. Make comments
• 7. Make predictions

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Reading with a Purpose

• Highlight and make note of details that support
  your claim or help you answer the guiding
  question.
• Learn to skim material that does not directly
  develop your claim or understanding. (Trimming
  the Fat)
• Learn to identify the Authors Purpose, so that
  you can skim and trim more effectively.

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The Unit 1 Test

• I will use a segment of an ACT Reading test.
• You will need to annotate it.
• You will answer multiple choice questions that
  ask you about
• Authors purpose
• Meaning of the non-fiction passage details.

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Recognizing Theme in Fiction

• What is the relationship between feeling joy and
  feeling emotional pain?
• How do you find beauty in life after you have
  suffered?
• What is the function of grief?
• On Friday, you will use only your WHW Charts to
  respond to one of these questions. So, you will
  have to use Kitchen as an example of what you
  claim. Your response will be one Mel-Con
  paragraph. You may write your claim on your
  chart. Note I will not grade you on using
  literary terms. I will use the MEL-Con rubric in
  your packet from Mrs. Pestich.