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A 5 page essay that discusses 3 post-reading activities. There are three major strategies that can be employed to ensure that students have an overall understanding of the major ideas of a specific selection, such as excerpts from the classic novel by Herman Melville, Moby Dick. The writer discusses creating a graphic organizer, outlining and summarizing. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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have an overall understanding of the major ideas of a specific selection, such as excerpts from the classic novel by Herman Melville, Moby Dick. In all three strategies, the principal
goal is to aid students in extracting major ideas from the material and in improving their comprehension of those ideas by showing them how these ideas are interrelated. Graphic
organizers A graphic organizer is an organizational tool that visually represents relationships. For example, after students have read and discussed selections from Moby Dick, the teacher could illustrate how to
create a cause-and-effect graphic organizer for these excerpts. At the heart of Moby Dick, the main event that precipitates all of the action is the fact that the captain was
maimed by the great white whale sometime in the past. The teacher could begin with this point by writing it on the board and placing a circle around it. Then,
by asking the class or thinking out loud, the discussion can turn from this initial cause to how it provides the major motivation in the novel. The teacher should draw
another circle next to the first and write it something to the effect that Ahab became disillusioned with fate and questioned how God could allow this to happen in a
presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple effects can be shown as effects that result from Ahabs psychological
trauma caused by his original encounter with the whale. With classroom participation, the teacher could numerous circles at the ends of arrows all coming off this initial cause, detailing Ahabs
obsession and the actions that this leads him to initiate. There are various ways of organizing the information conveyed in a graphic organizer. In addition to cause-and-effect, the information
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