An Assignment Sequence Pre-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: sympathy caring compassion 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 ELA California Content Standards - Grades Nine and Ten ELA California Content Standards - Grades Eleven and Twelve

The English Placement Test