1. From Deep Survival
PPT Questions

2. Question 1:
Reread lines 30-36, state the main idea of the paragraph in your own words. What details support that idea? Cite the text evidence for support.

3. Question 2:
When using anecdotes, authors chose them carefully to make specific points. Read lines 37-44, why did the author chose to use the anecdote from Alive?

4. Question 3:
The author supports his anecdotes and observations with other types of evidence to develop his ideas. Read lines , identify the types of evidence that the author presents. Why might he use such evidence?

5. Question 4:
Read page 328, identify the inference that the author makes about Byron Kerns.

6. Question 5:
Read page 329, identify the simile. Interpret the simile and explain why the author might have used it in the passage.

7. Question 6:
Once an author introduces a central idea, they may use a variety of techniques to develop it so readers can get a better understanding. Reread lines and explain how the author further develops the idea that he introduced in lines

8. Question 7:
Identify a simile in lines and explain its meaning and purpose in the text.

9. Question 8:
Read page 331, state the metaphor that is used and explain how it develops the authors central idea.

10. Question 9:
Read page 333. Identify two things that the author is contrasting. What does this contrast suggest about survival situations?

11. Question 10:
Reread lines , and make an inference about why survivors would describe their experience as “beautiful.”