Reading Like a Critic: Understanding and Responding to Texts: Unit Review

Tragedy is a genre; short story is a form.

The radif is the repeated refrain at the end of couplets; the qafia is the rhyme that comes just before it.

Sample: a first-person account or interview with residents (lived experience, ideally including Indigenous community members if the community is a First Nation) and a news report for facts about what happened. Each matches one part of the purpose.

Compare and contrast; signal word Unlike.

The © date, first published date and edition show when it was published or updated.

To explain cultural references, place names or words that readers of the translation might not know, without changing the poem itself.

The volunteers flooded the rink at midnight.

Something (the mussels) reduced the algae; there was less algae.

The arrival ... changed the lake.

Personal experience, family or community knowledge, media you've seen, hobbies, travel.

Confirming shows it was right with evidence; refuting shows it was wrong with evidence.

A sentence problem; reread the previous sentence to find the referent (check cohesive ties).

Grandpa tapping the greenhouse glass when the tomatoes were ripe (also: the rattle like rice).

Voice, word choice, word patterns, sentence structure.

It creates a pause and gives the final image extra weight: the payoff of the plough's work.

The Dead (soldiers who have died), speaking as We.

Fragments slow time and build tension, which suits fiction; news needs clear, complete, neutral sentences to inform.

First person.

Any one: actions contradict words; over-insistent words (honestly, obviously); other characters react differently; wishful reinterpretation of evidence.

The gap between what the narrator says and what's true, which creates the story's humour and sadness.

Allusion (to Greek mythology): the friendship was the team's one weak spot.

A simile is a brief descriptive comparison; an analogy explains how something works by mapping a relationship to something familiar.

The past perfect tense (had + past participle) and/or a time marker.

The unspoken meaning beneath what characters say.

Local (about one line).

Juliet thinks she's alone, but the audience knows Romeo is listening.

Its size, boldness, contrast, colour or position.

That the subject is small, weak or vulnerable.

Many people watch with the sound off, and captions make it accessible to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

Significance.

Likes measure attention, not accuracy.

Leaving a page to open new tabs and check who made it and what others say.

Any two: your opinion, minor examples, repetition, every detail.

Synthesis combines sources into a new understanding; a summary restates one text.

Sample: Community gardens can help neighbours connect across language differences, but they depend on land, water and volunteers.

Sample: splurges → spends; fancy extras → accessibility features.

Include the people affected in stories and decisions about them; quote them in their own words.

Any two: captions, transcripts, alt text, audio description, good contrast, plain language.

Norms, values, social hierarchy, past times, language, taboos.

Social hierarchy (respect for the eldest).

Her choices were shaped by her era's norms (arranged marriage, a father's power); understanding them helps us interpret fairly.

Respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy.

Campbell: Métis; Ipellie: Inuk; Highway: Cree.

Any one: learn the real history and share it accurately; learn whose territory you live on; read more by living creators; credit the creator by name.

The Sixties Scoop.

It came out during the TRC, when Survivors' testimony was being heard across Canada.

Any one: September 30 (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation); Sixties Scoop survivors reconnecting; Indigenous-led child and family services; language revitalization.

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.

Summarizing, because the goal is to grasp and remember main ideas; there's little plot to predict.

Sample: For the next three news articles I read before Friday, I'll list all quoted voices and loaded words, and write one sentence on who is missing.