Click on the article or website link about each set of questions. Read the article or website and answer the questions.
“To This Day” Project
1. Watch the “To This
Day” video.
a.
Would you classify this poem as a nonfiction text? Why/why not?
b.
What subgenre or type of nonfiction text is this poem (informational,
argument, and/or literary nonfiction like a memoir or autobiography)? WHY (for each)?
2. Read the text
under the video link.
a.
What is the purpose of this website and project?
b.
Cite textual evidence that helped you come to this conclusion.
c.
Based on your answers to A and B, would you classify this
website/project as informational, argumentative, or literary nonfiction?
Bullying Definition from StopBullying.gov
3. What is the
definition of bullying?
4. What is the
definition of power imbalance?
5. Name the three
types of bullying and give an example of each.
6. a. What seems to be the author’s purpose of this
page?
b. Cite textual evidence that led you to this
belief.
7. a. What subgenre
or type of nonfiction text is this website (informational, argument, and/or literary nonfiction like
a memoir or autobiography)?
b. WHY do you think this?
8. What text
structure or organization does this webpage most closely follow?
“The Bleakness of the Bullied”
9. In one or two
sentences, sum up the story that the author tells.
10.a. What is the
author’s purpose in writing this article?
b. Cite textual evidence that led you to this
conclusion.
11.a. What subgenre
or type of nonfiction text is this website (informational, argument, and/or
literary nonfiction—memoir, biography, or autobiography)?
b. WHY do you think this?
12. What text
structure or organization does this webpage most closely follow?
13. Do you believe
that this tendency to contemplate suicide is as prevalent as this author makes
it sound?
“Bullying Law Puts New Jersey Schools on the Spot”
14. What is the topic
of this article?
15. What is one
reason some people are against this new law?
16. What is one
reason some people support this new law?
17. Name at least two
specific steps New Jersey schools must take to implement this new law.
18. What is one
harmful, unintended consequence of this new law?
19. a. What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?
b. Cite
textual evidence that led you to this conclusion.
20.a. What subgenre
or type of nonfiction text is this website (informational, argument, and/or
literary nonfiction—memoir, biography, or autobiography)?
b. WHY do you think this?
21. Do you agree or
disagree with this state’s new approach to bullying in schools? Why?
“Prevent Bullying, Promote Kindness: 20 Things Schools Can
Do”
22. Besides suicide,
what are three additional consequences of bullying?
23. According to this
article, what wider peer culture does bullying feed off of?
24. What type of students
display “more frequent social aggression”?
25. Do you agree that
#24 is correct for our school? Why/why
not?
26. This article
claims that bullying-prevention programs alone are not successful. What does it say must be combined with
bullying-prevention programs in order to stop bullying?
27. a. What
is the author’s purpose in writing this article?
b. Cite textual evidence that led you to this
conclusion.
28.a. What subgenre
or type of nonfiction text is this website (informational, argument, and/or
literary nonfiction—memoir, biography, or autobiography)?
b. WHY do you think this?
29. What text
structure or organization does this webpage most closely follow?
Walker County Bullying Policy
30. How does the
Walker County Bullying Policy define unacceptable behavior (it lists 4
types)?
31. How does this
definition differ from the definition of bullying from question #3 (the
StopBullying.gov website)?
32. What is the
responsibility of the student being bullied?
33. What are the
steps that will be taken against the bully?
34. If an adult in
the school does not do anything about the bullying report, what can/should the
bullied student do?
35. Name at least one
way we could improve the bullying policy in our county.
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