TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS-Answer these in COMPLETE SENTENCES using details where requested your answer in the boxes below for each question. 1. How did the author, Michael Pollan, make decisions about what to eat before he began working on his book? 2. Describe the farm by citing specific details from the text. 3. In the first paragraph on page 3, the author writes: “I was driving through a feedlot, with tens of thousands of animals bellying up to a concrete trough that ran along the side of a highway for what seemed like miles.” What do these words help the reader better understand about where hamburgers come from? 4. Re-read the passage titled, “The Omivore’s Dilemma” (pg. 3-4). Based on that reading, what is the omivore’s dilemma? The “omnivore’s dilemma is” we can eat anything, but have no instincts of what to eat. 5. What can you infer about Pollan’s purpose in writing this book just from reading the first chapter? What makes you think this? I can infer his purpose is to inform us of what is in our food so we can make better choices. I this because he is telling us facts and examples and using his own personal journey. Name______________________________________________________ Chapter 2 pages 20-28 ELA 8 Chapter 2 - The Farm Why is it titled this? GIST-What are 2-3 main things you took away from the chapter? Author’s Purpose-Why did the author write this chapter? Author’s Claim-What is the author trying to prove?
Pollan describes the farm as a “losing proposition”. Re-read the second paragraph of page 32 and explain what he means by this. 4. If the American farmer is more productive than ever before, how come so many farmers are broke? 5. Consider the last paragraph of the chapter (39). How will farmers be affected by these policies that are not designed to help farmers? What, ultimately, will happen to the farms over time? Name________________________________________ Chapter 4 & 5 pages 40-62 ELA 8 Chapter – 4 & 5 “The Elevator” & “The Feedlot” GIST-What are 2-3 main things you took away from the chapter? Author’s Purpose-Why did the author write this chapter? Author’s is the author trying to prove? Why did Pollan these chapters this way? Chapter 4: Chapter 5: 1. Something I learned was… 2. Something I found interesting was…. 3. One fact: The author wrote this to: (circle 1) inform persuade entertain Explanation: The author is trying to prove…. (hint: what is he saying is true?)
5. Explain why resistant starch companies excited. Name___________________________________________ Omnivore’s Dilemma Ch. 7 pg. 76-96 Chapter 7-8 Why is it titled this? GIST-What are 2-3 main things you took away from the chapter? Author’s Purpose-Why did the author write this chapter? Author’s Claim-What is the author trying to prove? 7- Fat From Corn 8- The Omnivore’s Dilemma 1. Something I learned was… 2. Something I interesting was…. 3. One fact: Chapter 7 OR 8 The author wrote this to: (circle 1) inform persuade entertain Explanation: Chapter 7 or 8 The author is trying to prove…. (hint: what is he saying is true?) VOCAB- Text definition epidemic - a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. dramatic- an or circumstance sudden and striking. instinct- an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli. REWRITE definition in your own
2. When did the idea of organic food catch on? 3. What are organic food co-ops? 4. What drove the food co-ops out of business? 5. Why does Michael Pollan call this food chain “industrial organic”? What factors make it industrial? What factors make it organic? Name___________________________________________ Omnivore’s Dilemma Ch. 12-13 pg. 143- 160 Chapter 12 Polyface Farm Why is it titled this? GIST-What are 2-3 main things you took away from the chapter? Author’s Purpose-Why did the author this chapter? Author’s Claim-What is the author trying to prove? 1. Something I learned was… The author wrote this to: (circle 1) The author is trying to prove….
The author gave this chapter this title because…. 2. Something I interesting was…. 3. One fact: inform persuade entertain Explanation: Chapter 13 Grass Why is it titled this? GIST-What are 2-3 main things you took away from the chapter? Author’s Purpose-Why did the author write this chapter? Author’s is the author trying to prove? The author gave this chapter this title because…. 1. Something I learned was… 2. Something I found interesting was…. 3. One fact: The author wrote this to: (circle 1) inform persuade entertain Explanation: The author is trying to prove…. TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS- Answer these in COMPLETE SENTENCES using details where noted. your answer in the boxes below for each question. 1. Describe the positive function of a chicken on Polyface farm. Cite TWO details from the text to support this answer.