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Text Complexity Overall: Accessible
Lexile: 680L
Qualitative: Low Difficulty Task: Challenging (Evaluate)
5 As students are reading, monitor their progress. Be sure they are engaged with the text and annotating differences between this transcript and the article. Evaluate whether the selected reading mode is effective.
6 Ask what the purpose of the opening is and whether the paragraph is effective. Ask how it could serve as a model for an introduction to the students’ own papers. Compare this opening to the introductory paragraph from O’Connor’s essay.
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1. Craft and Structure (RI.9–10.4) Explain the 9781457304651_TCB_SE_G9_U1_B1.indd 50
connection between Liddell’s nickname, “The Iceman,” and his demeanor before a fight. Read the transcript section entitled Nickname. How does Liddell’s trainer describe the fighter’s demeanor before a fight?
2. Key Idea and Details (RI.9–10.3) Reorder the interviewer’s questions to create a clear sense
of progression and to form stronger connections between the questions and responses. Review the interview questions and number them in sequential order by placing a number next to each question. For example, Liddell would have applied to colleges as a first step. Logically, the next question would be, “Did you get into all of them?”
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Examining the Art of Questioning
My Notes
alma mater: the school from which a person graduated
Interview Transcript
Chuck Liddell
by Steven Yaccino
Chuck “the Iceman” Liddell still lives in the town of his alma mater. That’s right: This trained lethal weapon earned a B.A. in accounting at Cal Poly before claiming the Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight title in 2005. He’s since become a mixed martial arts superstar, appearing on an episode of HBO’s Entourage and authoring the memoir Iceman: My Fighting Life. Here, Liddell revisits his Cal Poly days, back when he juggled priorities and drank a lot of caffeine.
Occupation: UFC fighter
Grew up: Santa Barbara, Calif.
College attended: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Major: Accounting
Graduation year: 1995
Nickname: The Iceman. My trainer called me that because I don’t get nervous before fights.
Favorite drink / midnight snack: Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests. Also, any kind of candy.
How and why did you choose your major?
I was just good at it. Numbers have always come easy to me. When you came in as a freshman at Cal Poly, you had to declare a major. After about three years, I thought about changing it to construction management, because I was doing construction over the summers, or to PE. Originally, PE was the major I wanted, but my grandparents didn’t see it as a real major. They saw it as I was going to be a PE teacher: They didn’t realize that at Cal Poly, it was only two classes away from being pre-med. They didn’t see that as looking for a real job. I think being a PE coach is a real job, but that’s just me.
Were you a part of any activities like sports, music, clubs, or theater?
I played football my first year, and I wrestled for all five. You start football before school starts, and when you’re done with football, wrestling has already started. Then when you’re done with wrestling, there are three or four weeks and you’re back into spring ball. And then you have a half of a summer and you’re back into summer football.
It was just a little much. Plus, I was trying to cut weight for wrestling and trying to put on weight for football. It got to the point where I had to make a decision about where I wanted to be. I think I made the right decision with what I ended up doing.
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