Active Reading Strategies:Active Reading Strategies:NonfictionNonfiction

Glencoe Literature p.424-425Glencoe Literature p.424-425

EvaluateEvaluate::Make Make judgmentsjudgments about what you read. about what you read.

Ask yourself:Ask yourself: Is this statement a fact or an opinion?Is this statement a fact or an opinion? Does this information really support the Does this information really support the

thesis?thesis? Do I agree with the writer’s opinions and Do I agree with the writer’s opinions and

interpretations?interpretations? What does this action reveal about this What does this action reveal about this

person?person?

Review:Review:Pause often to Pause often to thinkthink about what you about what you

have read.have read.

Say to yourself …Say to yourself … The main idea is …The main idea is … Details supporting this thesis include…Details supporting this thesis include… The steps in this process are …The steps in this process are … The writer’s purpose is to …The writer’s purpose is to …

Use Active Reading Strategies to Use Active Reading Strategies to fill in the chart on the handoutfill in the chart on the handout

Theme: IdentityTheme: Identity Key Passages With Context:Key Passages With Context:

On the train to Buchenwald, Elie witnesses On the train to Buchenwald, Elie witnesses his fellow prisoners fighting over bread his fellow prisoners fighting over bread thrown into the train. The fight starts to thrown into the train. The fight starts to break up, and “When they withdrew, next break up, and “When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son. I was fifteen years father and the son. I was fifteen years old”(96).old”(96).

EvaluateEvaluate::What does this action reveal about the What does this action reveal about the

character?character?

Elie is still able to be shocked, even Elie is still able to be shocked, even after all he has gone through at the after all he has gone through at the camps already.camps already.

Review:Review:What is the writer’s purpose in this What is the writer’s purpose in this

passage? What does the writer want passage? What does the writer want you to see, feel, or understand?you to see, feel, or understand?

Wiesel wants us to see how the Wiesel wants us to see how the camps and the death march drove camps and the death march drove people to extremes. This son is so people to extremes. This son is so desperate for food, he is willing to kill desperate for food, he is willing to kill his father for a piece of bread. his father for a piece of bread.

Now continue the chart on your Now continue the chart on your own. Don’t forget the back! It own. Don’t forget the back! It

deals with the theme of survival.deals with the theme of survival.

CLOZE: Concept ReviewCLOZE: Concept Review The two main ___________________ reading The two main ___________________ reading

_____________________ we learned about _____________________ we learned about today were ________________________ and today were ________________________ and _________________________. When you _________________________. When you ____________________________ a text, you ____________________________ a text, you make ______________________________ make ______________________________ about what you are reading. When you about what you are reading. When you __________________________ a text, you __________________________ a text, you _____________________ often to think about _____________________ often to think about what you have read. Both strategies are what you have read. Both strategies are important in helping you to fully important in helping you to fully _______________________________ a text. _______________________________ a text.