Text #5: Text-specific Questions

Today we are going to practice using text-specific questions to further understand a text.

FIRST, it is essential that you reread Text #5, highlighting and marking details that relate to your GUIDING QUESTIONS (the ones you already have written in your Questioning Texts handout).

SECOND, take a detail that you have highlighted and put it in a TEXT-SPECIFIC QUESTION that forces you to focus your analysis and deepen your understanding.

THIRDLY, here is the question for us to practice together that I would like you to add to the top of your Analyzing Details chart:

What details does Powell provide in paragraph 3 that describe how the military places young men "in an environment of structure?"

As you reread Paragraph 3, highlight and mark details in this paragraph that might help you answer this question.

Write those details in the "Selecting Details" part of the chart.  Share them with your partner.

In partners, discuss what those details mean and then fill in "What I think about..." for each detail. (This is your COMMENTARY).

Then compose a sentence that links the commentary together and ANSWERS the text-specific question.

We will vote on which group did the best job here.

ROUND TWO:  with your partner compose your own TEXT-SPECIFIC QUESTION and fill out the chart together.  The class will share and vote on these as well.