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SURVEY A TEXT

Complete the following on paper or in digital format.
Practice will improve your surveying skills. Start now with this text or another you are currently using.
1. Skim the front matter, including the table of contents and preface. What does this material tell you about the
theme? About the book’s approach and point of view?
2. Are there unexpected topics listed in the table of contents? Are there topics you expected to see that are missing?
3. Now look at a typical chapter. List the devices that organize the structure and content of the material. (Refer to
“Step 1: Survey,” for a list of chapter elements.)
4. After skimming the chapter, what do you know about the material? What elements helped you skim quickly?
5. Finally, skim the back matter. What elements can you identify?
6. How do you plan to use each of the elements you identified in your text survey when you begin studying?

Key 5.4 shows how questioning works. The column on the left contains primary
and secondary headings from a section of Out of Many. The column on the right
rephrases these headings in question form.

Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to formulate questions
Asking different types of questions provides different types of understanding and
involves different levels of analytical thinking. To help you understand and use differ-
ent types of questions, consider the system that educational psychologist Benjamin
Bloom developed, based on the idea that deeper learning occurs when the effort to

KEY 5.4 Create questions from headings.

HEADINGS QUESTIONS
The Meaning of Freedom What did freedom mean for both slaves and citizens in the United
States?
Moving About Where did African Americans go after they were freed from slavery?
The African American Family How did freedom change the structure of the African American
family?
African American Churches What effect did freedom have on the formation of African American
and Schools churches and schools?
Land and Labor After Slavery How was land farmed and maintained after slaves were freed?
The Origins of African How did the end of slavery bring about the beginning of African
American Politics American political life?

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