CHOOSE NON-FICTION

Write the one sentence that you

think is the most meaningful in
3 After you’ve finished reading the article or non-fiction book chapter,
complete three of the following tasks on a separate sheet of paper:

Write a sentence of 25 words

the entire article/chapter.
Defend your choice.
1 2
If something in the article/chapter
reminds you of a person or
experience from your life,
describe the connection.
Please choose this task only if
you feel comfortable sharing this
information with other people in
the classroom.
or fewer that clearly and boldly
Imagine you are an
editor assigned to
states the main point of this give this text a
Write an
article/chapter. Then, describe new title. What
explanation
three specific elements from the title would
that would
text that support that main point. you create?
convince your
boss that your
title is the right one
for this article/chapter.
3
What is one choice a person If something in this text reminds
made in this text that could be you of a song, poem, film, or
changed? How might this different other piece of media, describe
choice have altered the outcome? the connection. Include as much
detail about the related work
as you can to help your reader
understand the connection.

4 5
If you could interview the author, Write a short paragraph of at
what three questions would you least three sentences that could
ask? be seamlessly inserted into the
article/chapter. Research facts
to include, if needed. Be sure
to include a paragraph number
and/or explanation to show
where your passage could be
stitched into the text.
7 8
If you could interview one of the Name a person or organization
people in this article/chapter, whose perspective should be
which one would you choose? added to this text. How would
Write three questions related to this improve the text?
the topic that you would ask this
person.
10 11
6
Create a Venn diagram to
compare/contrast this text with a
different text we’ve read this year.
Your diagram needs nine distinct
entries. Explain the significance
of the three similarities.
Previous
1 1 1 text
Today’s text 2 2 2
3 3 3
Similarities
9
Choose three high-level
vocabulary words from the text
and write them on your paper.
Based on their usage, write a
guess as to their meaning. Look
up the words in a dictionary and
write the actual defintion. Was
your guess correct? Finally, write
a new sentence correctly using
each of the words.
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