Title of Text: How americans Really feel about teaching controvers
Author: Anna Saavedra
Type of text: (essay, article, manual, etc.)
Arthes inschool
Topic or main idea of the article: Teaching controversial topics in school
1. What is the subject the author is writing about?
How americans agree on public education
don't talk or teach about
LGBTOT D
but
racial Justice
2. What is the big main idea or claim the author wants the reader to understand? Paraphrase this.
How K-12 divide sensitive
Racial Justice
topics like
LGBTQ+
and
3. For each paragraph or chunk in the text, what is the author saying? Use your underlined topic sentences
and margin
notes, specifically "what the author is saying," and your circled words/terms/ideas to paraphrase
the author in one to two sentences per paragraph/chunk. Write these in the same order they appear in the
text.
a. Paragraph/chunk #1 (author is saying and key related ideas):
Teachers Care
morc
LGBTQ+ or Racial
b. Paragraph/chunk #2:
c. Paragraph/chunk #3:
d. Paragraph/chunk #4:
about public education than
JUSTICE
e. Paragraph/chunk #5:
f. Paragraph/chunk #6: