-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?