Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Homework for Language Arts - Due Wednesday, Sept 19.

The following questions are from our Nelson Literacy text. Please answer each question, based on the magazine article "Over the Edge".

What Do You Think Now? “What is more important, what
you achieve or what you attempt?” How would you answer
this question now that you’ve read this magazine article?

Making Connections: What connections did y
ou make to
this selection?

Visualizing: How did the connections that you made to
your prior knowledge or prior experience help you visualize?

Making Inferences: How does Corey feel about his
experience? What evidence in the text supports your
answer?

Critical Literacy: How might the selection of images and
the use of quotations have been different if this had been
a newspaper report?

Evaluating: How effective were the photos chosen
to illustrate this article? What did they add to your
understanding of the selection?

Metacognition: Which reading strategy—visualizing or
making connections—better supported your learning style
as you read the selection? Why?

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