Unit 3

What Does It Mean to Explore?

Reader's Notebook


Moon Walk. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr, walks on surface of the moon. Public Domain. Created by NASA.

Critical Viewing

Critical viewers often use the photographs to gain additional information.


As they look at a photograph, they let their eyes move over the photograph and ask What does the photograph want me to notice or learn?

Critical viewers ask themselves the following questions:

  • What is the focal point? Where are my eyes drawn first?
  • How do people's faces add meaning?
  • How does seeing this help me add meaning?
  • What additional information can I learn from this photograph about life in space?

Read the selection Ask an Astronaut from pages 152 to 156 of Literacy in Action.


As you read,

  • pause and check for understanding after each question/answer
  • analyze photographs for additional information
  • look for connections between the photographs and the text
Open

Open Your File

Return to the Reader's Notebook: Living in Space Chart (you saved this file to your Documents folder):

  • Add additional information to the chart.
  • Place a check mark in the column beside the information that was verified by viewing the video and reading the Ask an Astronaut selection.

Save

How to save a file:

  1. Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
  2. Name your Reader's Notebook: Living in Space Chart file in this format: jsmith_livinginspace and save the file to your Documents folder.
Next, you will apply what you have learned about verifying information and using images to gain additional information.