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5. Key Ideas and Details: What is the purpose of the first four paragraphs of this article?
6. Craft and Structure: The author uses the word “folks” in paragraph 5 to mean family. What effect does this word choice have?
7. Key Ideas and Details: Choose a statement made by Segers that expresses the central idea driving Segers’s life now. What facts in the story support this idea?
8. Knowledge and Ideas: Notice how the language changes as it describes his Army assignment. What is an “elite” infantry unit? What are “personnel recovery missions”?
Working from the Text
9. Think about the audience and purpose of the poem “A Man” and the newspaper article you just read. Compare the purpose and audience for the two texts.
10. In both texts, the subject faces physical and mental challenges. How are these challenges similar and different?
11. An informational article and a poem would seem to have different purposes. How does the language of the texts differ?
12. Which piece had a greater impact on you? How did it affect you?
Check Your Understanding
Write a thematic statement about heroism that connects the texts.
my Notes
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