Revisiting Reading Apprenticeship

Question 1 * Type your name (first last)

Question 2 * In physics class, you were assigned “Prediction of Thermonuclear Rates in Astrophysics.” This is an excerpt from the article: The investigation of explosive nuclear burning in astrophysical environments is a challenge for both theoretical and experimental nuclear physics. Highly unstable nuclei are produced in such processes, which again can be targets for subsequent reactions. Cross-sections and astrophysical reaction rates for a large number of nuclei are required to perform complete network calculations, which take into account all possible reaction links and do not postulate a priori simplifications. Most of the involved nuclei are currently not accessible in the laboratory and therefore theoretical models have to be invoked in order to produce reaction rates. Please list all possible reading strategies you would use to make sense of this 12 page scientific article.

Question 3 * From the time you get up in the morning , you function almost on auto-pilot. To make this invisible process visible, explain and describe all the steps you take from the time you get up to the time you arrive at SHS.

Question 4 * What is the 13-letter word that describes the process of making the invisible visible (the process you described in Question 2)?

Question 5 * What is the word that means background knowledge? This term refers to a collection of concepts, words, beliefs, expectations and information from our past experiences.

Question 6 * As we read, the knowledge(s) we draw on and continue to build fall into 4 categories. Identify the specific knowledge to its correct definition. What is the correct definition of "world knowledge"?

what we know about how written works are organized and structured, including genre, patterns of narration or exposition, and features such as format, headings, and signal words
what we know about the structure and meaning of words and sentences
refers to what we know about thinking and reasoning practices and the ways that ideas and information are structured and communicated in various subject areas
shaped by those lived and vicarious experiences that form our experiential knowledge base about particular topics, activities, or events

Question 7 * As we read, the knowledge(s) we draw on and continue to build fall into 4 categories. Identify the specific knowledge to its correct definition. What is the correct definition of "text knowledge"?

shaped by those lived and vicarious experiences that form our experiential knowledge base about particular topics, activities, or events
refers to what we know about thinking and reasoning practices and the ways that ideas and information are structured and communicated in various subject areas
what we know about the structure and meaning of words and sentences
what we know about how written works are organized and structured, including genre, patterns of narration or exposition, and features such as format, headings, and signal words

Question 8 * As we read, the knowledge(s) we draw on and continue to build fall into 4 categories. Identify the specific knowledge to its correct definition. What is the correct definition of "discipline knowledge"?

what we know about how written works are organized and structured, including genre, patterns of narration or exposition, and features such as format, headings, and signal words
what we know about the structure and meaning of words and sentences
shaped by those lived and vicarious experiences that form our experiential knowledge base about particular topics, activities, or events
refers to what we know about thinking and reasoning practices and the ways that ideas and information are structured and communicated in various subject areas

Question 9 * As we read, the knowledge(s) we draw on and continue to build fall into 4 categories. Identify the specific knowledge to its correct definition. What is the correct definition of " language knowledge"?

what we know about how written works are organized and structured, including genre, patterns of narration or exposition, and features such as format, headings, and signal words
what we know about the structure and meaning of words and sentences
shaped by those lived and vicarious experiences that form our experiential knowledge base about particular topics, activities, or events
refers to what we know about thinking and reasoning practices and the ways that ideas and information are structured and communicated in various subject areas

Please refer to your copy of Cartoon 1. Which knowledges did you use to understand the cartoon. Explain briefly why the knowledges you chose helped you to understand the cartoon. *

Question 11 * Please refer to your copy of Cartoon 2. Which knowledges did you use to understand the cartoon. Explain briefly why the knowledges you chose helped you to understand the cartoon.

Question 12 * Please read the following short excerpt of "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid. Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?; always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady... Please list any "think aloud" or "talking to the text" strategies you used in making sense of this short excerpt.