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Post date: Jan 18, 2018 2:36:06 PM
Task 1: Close Reading
Reading closely means reading for meaning and understanding. Follow these 8 steps to perform your own close reading. To begin, read your passage slowly. To begin, read your passage slowly.
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Task 1: Identify any vocabulary you are unfamiliar with and look up the definition. Double check that the definition makes sense in the context of the text. Place in the first section of the email.
Task 2: Language Choice - identify any language that attracts your attention for any reason. Why do you find it interesting? Jot down your reasons in the second section of the email
Task 3: Verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. Identify the ones you find in the passage. What do you notice? Are there any patterns? Comment on your findings in the email.
Task 4: Predictions What might happen next? Why? Email.
Task 5: Opinions and reflections - what do you think of the story/narrators/characters? Email
Task 6: Connections does the task remind you about your own experiences? Or other books and films? What are the similarities? email.
Task 7: Questions - note them, and remember there is no such thing as a stupid question. Try to list more open questions than closed questions in your email.
Task 8: What key themes from the article do you think are important to this assignment? email.
And remember it is one email, not eight.
Task 2: Find your own
Find it, analyze it. Tell me about it. Email it.
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