When you read challenging texts, you automatically either 1)summarize in your head 2)ask yourself a question 3) make a prediction or 4)demand clarity
Here's what that means: when reading a challenging text, you need to stop after each paragragraph, or few paragraphs, and use a combination of the following strategies (like we did in class with Night today!!!!):
1. Summarizing / Self-Review
From what we've read so far, I can tell that...
2. Ask a Question / Self-Testing
Literal: Why does Moshe the Beadle come back to talk to Eli?
Interpretive: Why do you think the German soldiers are smiling?
Analytical: Why is Madame Schachter bound up and gagged?
Applied: What are the human emotions that inspire hope?
3. Predicting / Setting the Stage for Further Reading
Based on...... and what I have read so far, I predict...
4. Demanding Clarity / Breaking Down the Text
I need some clarification about... I am guessing it is...
* Add these strategies to your stock of post-it annotation ideas!
