Chapter Nine Summary
Using Preview, Study-Read, and Review (PSR) Strategies
CRCB
Preview, Study-Read, Review (PSR) allows you to question the reading before, during and after. By doing so, you establish a purpose for reading, a framework that holds new information, reaction and you read more closely looking for the answers.
In previewing, you can get a sense of how difficult the reading is and can predict how much time would be needed. There are three steps to previewing:
1. Skim the reading – read quickly, focus on titles, intro and summary.
2. Develop questions – who, what, when, why, where and how.
3. Predict content – what is it about.
Study-Read Stage of Reading involves the following steps:
1. Read and ask questions
2. Understand
3. Monitor
4. Main Ideas
Review Stage of Reading involves asking questions to ensure your understanding of the reading and the second step clarifies the confusing parts. It is during this section you would summarize, paraphrase and pick out the major supporting details.
Chapter Nine CRCB
Exercise, Practice with Reading Passage Page 304
1. Gay (Summary of the story)
This is the story of a young man coming home to die. In this home he felt trapped. He was not able to be himself. Mainly because of the relationship he had with his parents. He couldn’t talk to his parents about being gay. His parents would much rather believe he was a heroin addict than a homosexual.
It was not revealed in the newspaper what had killed this young man. He had died of Aids. His parents didn’t figure out he was gay until his death. Even the day of his funeral when a friend was helping with the dishes, after losing her temper, said, “He’s Gay”, the mother refused to listen. She covered her ears with her soapy hands in an attempt to ward off the words.
Some parents are not willing to accept the truths about their homosexual children. In this story, the parents did not know anything about homosexuals. The writer of this story has thought about this a lot. She is the mother of sons. She believes she could live with having a son who is a homosexual. Her biggest fear would be having a son who didn’t feel comfortable enough to tell her.
The mother of the young man mourned her son’s death mainly because she really didn’t know who he was. She spent too much of her time wondering “what he was”.
We often find things we hate about our children and the decisions they make, such as marriages, careers, sexual orientation. We state that we will never accept those things not realizing how long never really is and the impact it can have on our lives once our loved ones are no longer with us.
2. What was the main idea of the reading passage?
a. Certain lifestyles can cause irreparable damage to the body, and parents have the responsibility to guide their children away from such lifestyles.
b. Parents should take the time today to deal with things they can’t accept about their children, or they may never get the chance to develop nurturing and sustaining relationships with them.
c. Parents should consider joining support organizations to help them cope and learn more about their children’s lifestyles, such as the Parents of Gay Children (PGC).
d. A young man came home to die
3. When the author talks about never, what does she mean about its terrible endless power when she says, “Perhaps much longer than we intended, deep in our hearts, when we first invoked its terrible endless power.”
a. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
b. Don’t invoke spirits you can’t handle.
c. Sometimes we think we will have time later to deal with problems we don’t want to deal with today.
d. We can never change who we are.
4. What was the problem no one wanted to discuss at the young man’s home?
a. He was gay.
b. He dropped out of college.
c. He died of cancer.
d. He was a womanizer.
5. Why didn’t anyone want to talk about his illness with his parents?
a. They were too embarrassed to discuss AIDs, because it was a disease associated with homosexuals.
b. His parents weren’t close to anyone in the small town.
c. The neighbors were very angry with the parents for not accepting the boy for who he was.
d. His parents were very ill.
6. Why do you think the young man disliked his home town so much?
a. It was boring.
b. The author doesn’t really say why the young man disliked his home town.
c. He felt trapped and unable to be himself.
d. He was unable to find a job of choice.
7. In addition to being gay, list three things for which people are sometimes ostracized in cultures:
Religious beliefs, Handicaps, Political beliefs
Using Preview, Study-Read, and Review (PSR) Strategies
CRCB
Preview, Study-Read, Review (PSR) allows you to question the reading before, during and after. By doing so, you establish a purpose for reading, a framework that holds new information, reaction and you read more closely looking for the answers.
In previewing, you can get a sense of how difficult the reading is and can predict how much time would be needed. There are three steps to previewing:
1. Skim the reading – read quickly, focus on titles, intro and summary.
2. Develop questions – who, what, when, why, where and how.
3. Predict content – what is it about.
Study-Read Stage of Reading involves the following steps:
1. Read and ask questions
2. Understand
3. Monitor
4. Main Ideas
Review Stage of Reading involves asking questions to ensure your understanding of the reading and the second step clarifies the confusing parts. It is during this section you would summarize, paraphrase and pick out the major supporting details.
Chapter Nine CRCB
Exercise, Practice with Reading Passage Page 304
1. Gay (Summary of the story)
This is the story of a young man coming home to die. In this home he felt trapped. He was not able to be himself. Mainly because of the relationship he had with his parents. He couldn’t talk to his parents about being gay. His parents would much rather believe he was a heroin addict than a homosexual.
It was not revealed in the newspaper what had killed this young man. He had died of Aids. His parents didn’t figure out he was gay until his death. Even the day of his funeral when a friend was helping with the dishes, after losing her temper, said, “He’s Gay”, the mother refused to listen. She covered her ears with her soapy hands in an attempt to ward off the words.
Some parents are not willing to accept the truths about their homosexual children. In this story, the parents did not know anything about homosexuals. The writer of this story has thought about this a lot. She is the mother of sons. She believes she could live with having a son who is a homosexual. Her biggest fear would be having a son who didn’t feel comfortable enough to tell her.
The mother of the young man mourned her son’s death mainly because she really didn’t know who he was. She spent too much of her time wondering “what he was”.
We often find things we hate about our children and the decisions they make, such as marriages, careers, sexual orientation. We state that we will never accept those things not realizing how long never really is and the impact it can have on our lives once our loved ones are no longer with us.
2. What was the main idea of the reading passage?
a. Certain lifestyles can cause irreparable damage to the body, and parents have the responsibility to guide their children away from such lifestyles.
b. Parents should take the time today to deal with things they can’t accept about their children, or they may never get the chance to develop nurturing and sustaining relationships with them.
c. Parents should consider joining support organizations to help them cope and learn more about their children’s lifestyles, such as the Parents of Gay Children (PGC).
d. A young man came home to die
3. When the author talks about never, what does she mean about its terrible endless power when she says, “Perhaps much longer than we intended, deep in our hearts, when we first invoked its terrible endless power.”
a. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
b. Don’t invoke spirits you can’t handle.
c. Sometimes we think we will have time later to deal with problems we don’t want to deal with today.
d. We can never change who we are.
4. What was the problem no one wanted to discuss at the young man’s home?
a. He was gay.
b. He dropped out of college.
c. He died of cancer.
d. He was a womanizer.
5. Why didn’t anyone want to talk about his illness with his parents?
a. They were too embarrassed to discuss AIDs, because it was a disease associated with homosexuals.
b. His parents weren’t close to anyone in the small town.
c. The neighbors were very angry with the parents for not accepting the boy for who he was.
d. His parents were very ill.
6. Why do you think the young man disliked his home town so much?
a. It was boring.
b. The author doesn’t really say why the young man disliked his home town.
c. He felt trapped and unable to be himself.
d. He was unable to find a job of choice.
7. In addition to being gay, list three things for which people are sometimes ostracized in cultures:
Religious beliefs, Handicaps, Political beliefs
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