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Check your Understanding
Questioning the Text: Using the Key Ideas and Details questions as models, ask a question about Shakespeare’s purpose or Proteus’s point of view. Begin your questions with Who, What, Why, or How. You do not necessarily need to know the answer to the question, but you believe the answer might be important to your understanding the meaning of the passage.
Synthesizing your Understanding
Refer back to Activity 1 and review subject, purpose, and tone. Reread the passage and underline sentences that you believe express important ideas about the subject, purpose, and tone of the passage. Then respond to the questions below.
1. What is the subject? Who and 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 why Shakespeare would choose to have his character feel this way. What might he hope to communicate to the audience about his subject?
3. What is the speaker’s attitude toward the subject of this passage? Now that you have identified the subject and the purpose, make inferences about how Proteus feels about this subject. What adjectives can you use to describe his feelings?
Writing Prompt: Using textual evidence to support your thinking, write a paragraph in which you discuss the speaker’s attitude toward his new feelings and how they are changing him. Be sure to:
• Write a topic sentence that identifies Proteus’s tone and opinion.
• Choose several pieces of appropriate textual evidence. • Explain the significance of your textual evidence.
Introducing the Strategy: Questioning the Text
Questioning the Text is a strategy for close reading in which readers create questions about a text to aid in their understanding and interpreting meaning. Questions can be literal, interpretive, and universal. Key Ideas and Details questions are interpretive and ask questions about how or why.
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