Task 1: Comprehension
Answer the “while-reading” questions for both
texts.
1) Santee is an idyllic suburb in California, U.S, with a population of
58.000 people
2) Charles Andrew Williams took out his .22 revolver and started
shooting at his High School
3) Bryan Zucker and Randy Gordon were both left fatally wounded, while
13 other students was hit
4) That the school lived too much by its usual cliques and since
Williams were the odd one out, it was bound to break him.
5) We are told that he is a 15-year-old boy who grew up neglected by his
father. He came to Santee about two years before the incident from a rural town
in Maryland. His parents was divorced and he barely saw his mother. He was
jug-eared, skinny and timid.
6) Andy was a victim to extreme neglect from his parents and bullying
from his fellow peers, which of course in the end brought him to lose it. Not
that his actions in anyway is excusable but with the neglect and bullying he
became lonely and isolated more than he was before. People were constantly at
his back and mean to him (like when two of his friends called him a pussy, when
he threatened to pull a columbine) and that kind of treatment is bound to have
some kind of effect. For Andy Williams the effect to shape in a school shooting.
7) They called him a pussy and did not believe that he had the guts to
do it.
8) I would blame his so-called friends and his neglecting parents that
did not see what their son was going through.
9) Because there was many signs around Andy Williams
to warn people about how far out he was, yet no one did anything about it
IT’S ONLY ME
1) Why is the article called “It’s only me”?
2) Comment one the children’s motives for
threating to shoot.
The girl he liked kissed another boy, but he
was only kidding
3) Why do parents at nearly every school
shooting say they “never thought it would happen here”
They of course haven’t seen the signs of any
kind of gun violence.
4) According to the article, what do school
shootings and plane crashes have in common?
“ Rare but retrieving for the primitive fears
they evoke. “
5) Why are Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris
mentioned?
Because they were in one of the biggest school
shooting feuds of all time.
6) What is the awful shorthand they have given
kids?
Children have such an easy access to weapons
at home. Parents are allowed to have guns lying around in the house.
7) “… the adults fire back at a moving target”
Explain.
8) “The culture cracked down on itself”
Explain
9) What is your impression on the writer’s
attitude to Charles Andrew Williams.
She feels sorry for him
10) What is/are the message(s) of the article?
11) Is “It’s only me” a good title? Why/ why
not?
12) Can you think of a better title?
Task 2: Analysis
Read the model and do the tasks below.
NON-FICTION:
Communication model:
Relationship between sender and receiver
IT’S ONLY ME
Who Nancy
Says what Stop School shootings
To whom EVERYBODY - THE PUBLIC
Under which circumstances
With which purpose
With which effect The
receiver's reaction
WARNING:
Who Time
Says what School shootings in Santee, CA
To whom Everyone with kids or grandkids in
school, authority
Under which circumstances Through the
newspaper
With which purpose Eye-opener
to parents to aware them of these school shootings
With which effect