Ice man close read

Bellwork

•Please take out your Unit 2 Vocabulary from yesterday and hop to it! You have about 20 minutes to finish up. Absent yesterday? Grab a copy of the vocabulary booklet and definitions in the file.

DISCUSS WITH YOUR GROUPS

•What can we learn about people, even after they’ve died?

•Think about past and present.

•When studying people and civilizations from thousands of years ago, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists having limited clues and have to infer a lot about these people.

•You are going to do a close read on the Iceman, a man and his belonging frozen in time for 4,000-5,000 years.

STEP 1: MARKING THE tEXT

• Number the paragraphs.

• Circle key ideas, names of people and places, and dates.

• Highlight or box unfamiliar words, and using context clues, try to find a synonym.

• Underline the main point or other relevant information.

• Jot down the most important thing in each section (paragraph).

• Finally, at the end of the text, write your final impression.

STEP 2: TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS

•On the back of your article, answer the following questions:•1. What can you infer from the title?•2. Summarize the text. (1-2

sentences)•3. What events or details does the

author provide that helps the reader learn about the iceman?

•4. What kind of text is this?

•5. Explain the meaning of the word archaeologist?

•6. What was the problem and solution to examining the iceman for further analysis and historical significance?

•7. Explain how the author uses reasons/evidence to support the main idea of the text.

•8. How does the author use specific quantitative evidence to support the idea that exposure of the iceman to the elements may degrade and/or destroy the body for future examination and analysis?

•9. Compare the text to another piece of art, music, a webpage or other media.