An Assignment Sequence

An Assignment Sequence

Pre-readingPre-reading

Building and Accessing Prior Knowledge

Pre-reading

Getting Ready to Read

Introducing Key Concepts

Surveying the Text

Making Predictions & Asking Questions

Introducing Key Vocabulary

Getting Ready To Read

With a partner identify

What does it mean to have a “change of heart?”

What are some common feeling people have about animals?

What might cause someone to change their feelings or ideas about animals?

Empathy

Synonyms:sympathycaringcompassion

Definition:the ability to understand other people’s problems

Essential Characteristics•Being able to understand and enter into another’s feelings•Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anquish)•The ability to “put yourself in another’s shoes.”

Examples•Donating to the salvation army so that homeless children can have food and shelter because you understand the nature of homelessness.• •

Non Examples•Donating to a charity in order to get a tax deduction• •

We have empathy for those who have fallen on hard times

Other Concepts

humane

inhumane

cognitive

genetically wired

Surveying the Text

Where and when was this article published?

Who wrote the article? Do you know anything about this writer?

What is the subtitle of the article? What does it tell you about what the article might say?

This article was published on the editorial page. What does that mean?

Making Predictions

What do you think is the purpose of this article? Does the writer want us to change our minds about something?

Will the article be negative or positive in relation to the topic?

Asking Questions

Ask two or three questions that you think will be answered by reading this text.

Key Vocabulary

• Words Helpful for This Module:

• activists (Para #3): people who work for a cause

• human consumption (Para. #15) being eaten by humans

• goslings (Para. #14): baby geese• groom (Para. #10): comb or

brush• instinct (Para. #14): a behavior

or ability that is not learned.• crave (Para #4): strongly desire

or need• purveyors (Para. #3): sellers or

providers• kin (Para #11): relatives• mortality (Para. #11): death• fashioned (Para. #7): made

• General Academic Vocabulary:

• esoteric (Para. #1): known only to a few experts

• deterioration (Para. #4): worsening, decline

• isolating (Para. #5): causing to be alone

• conceptual (Para. #7): having to do with ideas

• distinguishes (Para. #11): differentiates

• striking (Para. #13): shocking or surprising

• portend (Para. #15) indicate, or predict

• subjected (Para. #15) forced to experience

Reading Activities

First Reading

Looking Closely at Language

Rereading the Text

Considering Stylistic Choices

Considering the Structure of the Text

Post Reading Activites

Summarizing and Responding

Thinking Critically

Connecting Reading to Writing

Writing to Learn

Using the Words of Others

The centrality of Argument Vis-a-Vis The standards, The CAHSEE, and the EAP &

The EPT

REA DIN G COMPREHEN SIO N 2.8

Evaluate the cre dibi lity of an autho r’s argument or critique of a c laim by critiquing the re lationships between gene raliza tions and evidence, the compreh ensiv eness of evidence, the way in which the autho r’s inten t affects the structu re and ton e of the text .

READING COMPR EHENSION 2. 2

Analyze the way in whic h cla ri ty of mean ing is aff ected by the patterns of orga nization, hiera rchic al structu res , repe ti ti on of the main ideas, syntax, and word choice in the text.

READING COMPR EHENSION 2. 4

Make warra nted and reasonable asser tions abo ut the autho r’s arguments by using elements of the text to defend and clarify interp retations.

ELA California Content Standards - Grades Nine and Ten

ELA California Content Standards - Grades Eleven and Twelve

ELA California Content Standards - Grades Eleven and Twelve

READING COMPR EHENSION 2. 5

Anal yze an author’s implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and bel iefs about a subject.

READING COMPR EHENSION 2. 6

Critiqu e the power, val idity, and truthfulness of argu ments se t forth in public docu ments; their appeal to both frien dly and hostile audiences; and the exte nt to whic h the argu ments ant icipate and add ress read er concerns and cou nte rclaims (e.g ., appeal to reason, to authority, to pathos and emotion) .

The English Placement Test

Æ Recognizing Purpose and Strategy Æ Reasoning from the Text

Æ Identifying Important Ideas Æ Development and Support