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8 SECOND READ: During the second reading students will be returning to the text to answer the text- dependent comprehension questions. You may choose to have students reread and work on the questions in a variety of ways:
• independently
• in pairs
• in small groups
• together as a class
9 Have students answer the text-dependent questions. If they have difficulty, scaffold the questions by rephrasing them or breaking them down into smaller parts. See the Scaffolding the Text-Dependent Questions boxes for suggestions.
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The Road to Success
My Notes
Second Read
• Reread the speech to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Idea and Details: How does the speaker characterize America in his speech?
Obama characterizes America as a special or “magical place” and a “beacon of freedom and opportunity” that rewarded his father’s “hard work and perseverance” with a chance to get an education. He also calls it a “tolerant” place in which his African name was “no barrier to success” and a “generous” place where “you don’t have to be rich to achieve your potential.” RI.11–12.1
2. Craft and Structure: How does the speaker use rhetoric in paragraphs 5 and 6 to advance his point of view?
Obama appeals to his audience’s ethos—their sense of pride in America as a place founded on the ideal of equality, safety, and freedom—to develop his point of view that the United States is a fair and free country. He refers to the vote count in the 2000 presidential election when he says “our votes will be counted ... at least most of the time.” RI.11–12.6
3. Key Idea and Details: According to the speaker, what is the relationship between the individualism that we Americans celebrate and a government that supports everybody’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The relationship between individualism and government rests on a belief that we are “connected as one people.” As Obama says, “it is that fundamental belief—I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper—that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family.” RI.11–12.2
4. Craft and Structure: How does the speaker’s choice to end the speech by stating a series of beliefs contribute to the speech’s overall impact?
By stating a series of beliefs about how “we”—the audience and all U.S. citizens—can help working families, “provide jobs for the jobless,” “reclaim young people,” and “meet the challenges that face us,” Obama inspires his audience to have hope and to participate in the political process. RI.11–12.5
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