You will turn in your annotated passages at the end of the period. DO NOT leave the room with them. I will pick them up after school. Read and annotate the passage using the pencil-following method using only 5 minutes or fewer. You are looking for the GESTALT not the minutiae. Save that for wrestling with the questions. Reading quickly and effectively, and working in efficient groups, you should be able to answer all questions within the class period. **Anything posted after class is over will have points deducted. No side conversations. No cell phone use. Focus and get finished. In your groups, answer the following questions and post them to the classroom app. Post as follows:

[Post all answers at the same time]

Group names (everyone who participated in discussion and typing.) It is on you if you let someone not participate, so be sure to listen to all opinions, and if you disagree with the group, add on a piece to the answer stating your disagreement and what you believe the answer to be.

Then number and answer with complete sentences. You do not need to write the question.

  1. What is the topic? Who is his audience, and what experience with this topic do you think they have?
  2. In line 5, he addresses the speech of “some people”. Using tone and inference, what does he imply about those “some people”?
  3. In the first paragraph, between what two things does the author draw a distinction?
  4. According to the second paragraph, what does the author suggest as one way to lessen the suffering of others?
  5. What two ideas are contrasted in the third paragraph?
  6. Summarize the main points of the third paragraph. Explain his main concern.
  7. What is the purpose in lines 31 and 32 of introducing the “man who imagines his wits are failing”?
  8. Remember that passive voice makes it seem like an action happened on its own. What is the effect of using it in lines 40-42?
  9. To what does “this torture” refer in line 50? Be specific.
  10. Why do you think the word “is” is italicized in line 60? What does the author want the reader to do?
  11. What is the effect of listing the adjectives before the word “fright” in line 63?
  12. With the whole passage in mind, what is the purpose of the final paragraph?
  13. Which appeals are used in the passage? Which one seems to dominate, and why?
  14. Which 2 personal characteristics does the author suggest we develop?