In around 500 words, try to fill in the following categories. This practice is something you should learn to do of everything you read (fiction or non), and can help improve your critical reading and thinking skills by helping you figure things out, regardless of length or difficulty.
It can help to even make yourself a small table on a piece of paper or in a word document, and you’re welcome to submit those if you do make them for this!
The categories are as follows:
What do WE (the readers) KNOW after reading this? What does the text TELL us directly?
What do we have to INFER? What information can we deduce or arrive at a logical conclusion of by what is in the text?
What do we NOT KNOW after reading this? What information, facts, or outcomes does the text NOT directly tell us?
Then, consider this extra category after you’ve filled out the above three:
What can we KNOW by examining contexts and information about the author, time of publication, and historical events surrounding the text?
While these responses do not have to be in formal MLA, you should be able to still appropriately give a citation and credit to where you have gotten the quote from. Quoted material does NOT count for word count, so please keep that in mind.
