Source: Herald Sun, November 17 2008 By Jill Singer


PREREADING QUESTIONS:

THE IMPACT OF VISUALS:

1. Use two adjectives (describing words) to sum up the mood or tone of the visual on the left.

2. Justify your word choices (above) What is it about the visual that strongly suggests this mood or tone?

MAKING PREDICTIONS:

3. The headline to this piece (which is cut off here) is: 'Ashamed return to a bullied past' We can make a lot of predictions about the article's content simply by looking at the visual and word cues. Use them to make predictions about the article:

i)What is the likely topic of this piece?
ii)Why do you think the writer felt moved to write this piece?
iii)What is the likely message of this piece?

















READING:

1. Read the piece through once for understanding.

2. Read the article a second time and highlight the words, phrases and sentences you consider:

• Strong and Powerful:
• Highly Persuasive:
• Descriptive:
• Emotive: (Designed to achieve an emotional response)

3. What is the main idea in the article?

4. List ALL the words/phrases the writer uses to describe the group of teenage girls and comment on the implied meaning or connotation of each:

For example:
"loud and boisterous" strongly suggests the girls were behaving badly and in an antisocial manner before the incident occurred.

5. The writer seems to learn a valuable lesson from this incident. What is it?