Class Agenda 3.7

1. Reading Quiz

2. Announcements

Incredible Opportunity
Grades for 101, 103, 110
Essay Assignment One
Twitter and Blogger status
Other questions

3. How do we read a text like Slave and Citizen?


What do we notice about the style?
What do we notice about the tone or voice of the text?
What do we notice about the vocabulary?
What do we notice about the citations?
What do we notice about the geographic terms?
What do we notice about the data?

How are we able to define the terms?
How are we able to tell what passage is important?
How are we able to distinguish claims from facts?
How are we able to decide the difference between argument and evidence (or, major claim and supporting claim)?
How are we able to identify the most important claims? Or the one most important claim?
How are we able to identify major themes?
How are we able to decipher the purpose of specific paragraphs and passages?


4. Summary (strategies, goals, and technique)

Use longer paragraph of text as example
Class model and individual practice

5. Paraphrase (strategies, goals, and technique)

Use sentence from text as example
Class model and individual practice

6.  Building paragraphs from the 'inside out.'

Catalogue the major themes from the text
Organize thoughts on the author's position and biases
Accurately state both the themes and position

Seize moments that for 'critique' and for 'construction.'

Critique: Challenging a claim made by the author or text.
Construction: Building upon a claim by the author or text.

7. Organizing active reading around these techniques
Annotations
Notes
'Real reading' is writing, and vice versa