How will I?

Am I?

Our Strategy…

Text-to-Text

Connecting

ConnectingText-to-Self

ConnectingText-to-World

Why wasn’t Nebraska a part of the Dust Bowl?

Could this happen again?Would we be more protected from the storms

today than they were back then?How many people died?How did they end up surviving?Why didn’t everyone just move?If you put all the dust storms together, how

big would that storm be?

Questioning

Question for each section of the book.

How did people react when they saw the starving cows?

Why does her mom want her to focus on school instead of the piano?

How does their medical treatment of burns back then compare to today?

Do Billie Jo ever cry for the loss of her mom?

What will happen to Billie Jo if her dad dies?

Questioning

What will happen next in each section?

Billie Jo’s mom will lose the baby.

Billie Jo will run away.Billie Jo’s dad will remarry.Billie Jo’s dad will start planting trees like the President said, and crops will grow.

Inferring

Picking out hints from the text to figure out what will happen next.

An example from a movie would be…

Inferring

“My father has a raised spot on the side of his nose that never was there before and won’t go away. And there’s another on his cheek and two more on his neck, and I wonder why the heck is he fooling around. He knows what it is. His father had those spots too.”

Inferring

After running away and meeting a man that had left his wife and children, Billie Jo is thinking of her father.

“ My father stayed rooted, even with my tests and my temper, even with the double sorrow of his grief and my own, he had kept a home until I broke it.”

Inferring

In order to figure that out…I made you question what it wasMake connections from what you saw in

this PowerPoint to your background knowledge of the strategies

Made a prediction on what it wasTherefore combining all the elements of

these strategies leads to…

My Strategy

Synthesizing!