Quinlen A Close Reading General Understandings Overall view Sequence of information Story arc Main claim and evidence Gist of passage General Understandings in 9 th Grade What is the main ID: 668083
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A Quilt of a Countryby Anna Quinlen
A Close ReadingSlide2
General Understandings
Overall view
Sequence of information
Story arc
Main claim and evidence
Gist of passageSlide3
General Understandings in 9th Grade
What is the main
idea of
the essay
?
What is the author’s major idea?
Anna
Quindlen’s
“A Quilt of a Country” (2001)Slide4
Key Details
Search for nuances in meaning
Determine importance of ideas
Find supporting details that support main ideas
Answers who, what, when, where, why, how much, or how many.Slide5
Key Details in 9th Grade
Where are there examples of freedom
and
oppression?
What other juxtapositions does our author use?
Anna
Quindlen’s
“A Quilt of a Country” (2001)Slide6
Vocabulary and Text Structure
Bridges literal and inferential meanings
Denotation
Connotation
Shades of meaning
Figurative language
How organization contributes to meaningSlide7
Vocabulary and Text Structure in 9th Grade
What role does the word
conundrum
play in this essay?
What is the structure of the essay?
How does the author build her argument?
Anna
Quindlen’s
“A Quilt of a Country” (2001)Slide8
Genre
: Entertain? Explain? Inform? Persuade?
P
oint of view
: First-person, third-person limited, omniscient, unreliable narrator
Critical Literacy
: Whose story is not represented?
Author’s PurposeSlide9
Author’s Purpose in 9th Grade
Look at the date of this essay, and then let’s talk about why she might have written it.
Whose side of the argument is not being told?
Anna
Quindlen’s
“A Quilt of a Country” (2001)Slide10
Inferences
Probe
each
argument
in
persuasive text
, each
idea
in
informational text
, each
key detail
in
literary text
, and observe how these
build to a
whole
.Slide11
Inferences in 9th Grade
What does the author believe about the
benefits and limitations of
tolerance?
Anna
Quindlen’s
“A Quilt of a Country” (2001)Slide12
Opinions, Arguments, and
Intertextual
Connections
Author’s opinion and reasoning
Claims
Evidence
CounterclaimsEthos, Pathos, Logos
RhetoricLinks to other texts throughout the gradesSlide13
Arguments in 9th Grade
To quote,
Quindlen
says, “
These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one
spirit.” What does that mean and what evidence does she provide for this statement?
Anna
Quindlen’s
“A Quilt of a Country” (2001)Slide14
Intertextual Connections in 9th
Grade
In what ways does this essay differ from “The Melting Pot,” written by the same author 10 years earlier?
Anna
Quindlen’s
“A Quilt of a Country” (2001)