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Check your Understanding
Questioning the Text: Using the text-based questions as a model, ask a question about an idea in a sentence from the third paragraph. Begin your questions with why or how. Remember that you may not know the answer to the question, but you think the answer might be important to understanding the meaning of the passage.
Understanding Speaker, Subject, and Purpose: Reread the passage and underline sentences that you believe express important ideas or opinions. Share and discuss these sentences as a class. Then, work with your teacher and your classmates to respond to the questions below about subject, purpose, and speaker.
1. What is the subject? What is this excerpt about? Be as specific as you can in identifying the subject of the passage.
2. What is the purpose? Now that you have identified the subject of the passage, explain Steinbeck’s reasons for writing these paragraphs. What does he hope to communicate to the audience about his subject?
3. Who is the speaker?
Writing Prompt: Using textual evidence to support your thinking, write a paragraph in which you discuss Steinbeck’s attitude to travel. Be sure to
• Writeatopicsentenceansweringtheprompt.
• Chooseappropriatetextualevidence.
• Explainthesignificanceofyourtextualevidence.
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