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"Digging"
Reading Strategies
The Giver
My Dungeon Shook
I Need a Hero!
100
_____ refers to the sound that a spade makes when it digs into gravel or dirt. Its meaning is defined in the text: "Under my window, a clean rasping sound/When the spade sinks into gravelly ground/my father, digging."
What is rasping?
100
Before reading, Sara makes predictions about the text based on the title, the author, the year the text was published, etc. Sara is using:
What is previewing?
100
The apple that Jonas took home and was tossing back and forth with Asher functioned as this literary element, as it was itself and at the same time, stood for something else.
What is a symbol?
100
"This _____ set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish." Baldwin had a "dispute" with his ______.
What is "innocent country"?
100
Long before the invention of writing and books, singers and storytellers recited the tales and lore of their cultures. The stories of different cultures have been preserved through the ages by being passed from one generation to the next.
What is the oral tradition?
200
The speaker's _____ is digging in flowerbeds.
What is father?
200
Gage accepts that it is "okay" to be confused about a specific section of the text. Any confusion will clarified through class discussion. Gage is using:
What is Living with Confusion?
200
The "perfect" society functioned as this literary element, as it recurred throughout the novel.
What is a motif?
200
"They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are _____ to white men."
What is inferior?
200
Insights about life and human nature.
What are themes?
300
The repeated words "between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests" suggest that the son is _____.
What is writing?
300
While reading, Madison generates literal, interpretive, and evaluative questions. Madison is using:
What is questioning?
300
The impact of Jonas's parents chastising him for using the word "love" on his inner self functioned as this literary element, as it made this imaginary person seem lifelike.
What is characterization?
300
"There is no reason for you to try to become like white men and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them, and I mean that very seriously." These are Baldwin's thoughts about _____.
What is integration?
300
The core values and concerns of the storytellers.
What is cultural experience?
400
The son is _____ into his mind to find words to write with.
What is digging?
400
After reading, Matt writes a summary of the text to help him reflect on it. Matt is using:
What is summarizing?
400
During the _____, children are assigned jobs to carry out for the rest of their lives.
What is the Ceremony of 12?
400
Throughout the essay, Baldwin discusses how the African American identity is changing. Baldwin's nephew will have more of his own identity than his ancestors had; he will be able to "spell _____."
What is his proper name?
400
Truths about life that are meaningful to people of all times and all places.
What are universal themes?
500
A parallel is being made between the father's digging in the ground and the son's digging into his mind with words. The _____ emphasizes the metaphor the poem is built around.
What is the title?
500
While reading a poem, Haylie makes notes about her interpretations of each stanza. Haylie is using:
What is Breaking Down the Text or Chunking?
500
This person was punished as a Three because he struggled with precision of language. As a 12, he was appointed Assistant Director of Recreation.
Who is Asher?
500
Baldwin says that _____ will be difficult for everyone, black or white, but those involved must be strong for the sake of their posterity.
What is assimilation?
500
Characters, situations, images, and symbols that recur in the narratives of all cultures.
What are archetypes?