Reference no: EM134040780
About American Civil War
1. What is the title and author (authors) of the media?
2. What is the topic of the media?
3. What is the overall main idea of the reading (Thesis, either written or implied)?
4. What types of information does the writer use to support thesis. This does not relate to what the writer says. Consider what the writer does. Does the writer use personal experiences, statistics, facts, other expert research?
5. What are the key ideas (topic sentences or implied topic sentences) that support the thesis statement?
6. How does the writer/media maker end the work?
7. Identify words and phrases that you have never encountered or do not understand. Write them below, and then use the resources available to you to find their definitions or meanings.
8. Identify the parts of texts to which you can connect. Why are these sections meaningful to you? Or Of what experiences do they remind you?