-And the Moon Be Still As Bright
Martian Chronicles Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) Strategy Assignment
Academic Vocabulary
Directions: You will see words in the chart below that are hyperlinked to definitions to the below
words: You will want the academic use of the world.
Explicit:
Implicit:
Derive:
Imply:
Infer:
Elicit:
Directions: The below chart will help you better understand your academic vocabulary in context
and it will help you better understand what kinds of questions you will be asked for this short
story from The Martian Chronicles.
QAR Strategy
Category
Description
Right There
Text explicit
Think and Search
Text implicit
Author and You
Script and text implicit
On my Own
Script implicit
The question is asked using words from
the text and the answer is directly stated
in the reading.
The questions are derived from the text
and require the reader to look for the
answer in several places and to combine
the information
The question has the language of the text
but in order to answer it the reader must
use what he or she understands about the
topic. The answer cannot be found
directly in the text, but the text can
provide some information for
formulating an answer. The information
is implied and the reader infers what the
author meant by examining clues in the
text.
The question elicits an answer to come
from the reader’s own prior knowledge
and experiences. The text may or may
not be needed to answer the question.
The following questions are examples for you to answer. These questions are taken from pages
48-55 of the short story –And the Moon be Still as Bright.
Example Right There Questions
1. Which character says “doesn’t an old thing always know when a new thing comes?”
Example Think and Search Questions
2. Who was the twofold specialist that discovered what happened to the Martians; what did
they die from?
Example Author and You Questions
3. Create an alternative title for this story and explain (1-2 sentences) why you think it
would be a better title.
Example On My Own Questions
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows:
“There’d be time for that later; time to throw condensed-milk cans in the proud Martian canals;
time for copies of the New York Times to blow and caper and rustle across the lone gray Martian
sea bottoms; time for banana peels and picnic papers in the fluted, delicate ruins of the old
Martian valley towns. Plenty of time for that. And he gave a small inward shiver at the
thought”(Bradbury 49).
4. The author in this passage is describing how the character Spender feels about what will
happen to Mars. What is Spender afraid is going to happen to Mars now that the fourth
expedition has successfully landed?