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Close Reading of informational Texts in social studies/history (continued)
key ideas and deTails
What does de Tocqueville’s imaginary meeting between two Englishmen in a foreign land say about their typical behavior?
Third Reading: Text-Dependent Questioning
Reread the passage a third time and respond to the Key Ideas and Details questions on the next pages. Write your responses to each question and highlight or underline the textual evidence that supports your answer.
From
Chapter 2 of Democracy in America How Democracy Renders The Habitual Intercourse of The Americans Simple and Easy
by Alexis de Tocqueville
1 If two Englishmen chance to meet at the antipodes, where they are surrounded by strangers whose language and manners are almost unknown to them, they will first stare at each other with much curiosity and a kind of secret uneasiness; they will then turn away, or if one accosts the other, they will take care to converse only with a constrained and absent air, upon very unimportant subjects. Yet there is no enmity between these men; they have never seen each other before, and each believes the other to be a respectable person. Why, then, should they stand so cautiously apart? We must go back to England to learn the reason.
2 When it is birth alone, independent of wealth, that classes men in society, everyone knows exactly what his own position is in the social scale; he does not seek to rise,
he does not fear to sink. In a community thus organized men of different castes
Second Reading: vocabulary in Context
Now that you have read the passage silently, listen and follow along as your teacher reads the text aloud. As you read along with your teacher, circle words and/or phrases (other than the underlined words) that you do not know or that you feel
are important to the meaning of the document. Using context clues and reference resources, determine the meaning of any new words you need to define. Diffuse these words/phrases for comprehension.
Check your Understanding
1. Choose six words from the vocabulary that have been underlined, bolded,
and/or that you have circled, and paraphrase the definitions to show your understanding. Then choose two or three of the words you have examined that you think are significant to understanding the text and use those words in sentences as part of a summary explaining the central ideas in the text.
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