Paired Passages: Fiction and Informational

Paired Passages: Fiction and Informational

Students will read an informational text and make connections to paired fiction text.

Read the first excerpt Thank You for Your Service Excerpt by David Finkel

You can find the excerpt on Schoology

Multiple Choice

The narrator’s description of Adam’s experience suggests a theme of-

• the opportunity for creating change

• the importance of being true to yourself

• the awareness that not all injuries are visible

• the reward in helping people around you

Multiple Choice

The author establishes conflict in paragraph 6 by describing how-

• the thought of hurting his family made him sick

• every day he was living felt the same during his deployment

• he began to question his life during his deployment

• his second deployment was exciting and thrilling

Multiple Choice

Which word from paragraph 7 means “pull” or “lift”?

• pounding

• hoisted

• electric

• lead

Multiple Choice

The descriptive language in paragraph 1 emphasizes the-

• mess in the soldier’s bunk

• all of the medications the soldier was taking

• crazy schedule soldiers follow

• large amount of tension the soldier has

Read the informational article “The Post-Traumatic Stress Trap” by David Dobbs

Article is in Schoology

Multiple Choice

Which detail best describes the idea that PTSD might be masking another mental illness?

• Stevens thinking his PTSD diagnosis was being over exaggerated

• Stevens keeping track of the people from his unit being diagnosed with PTSD

• Doctors not differing the patients with PTSD from the ones with other mental illnesses

• Stevens worrying that PTSD treatment will permanently damage patients who are misdiagnosed

Multiple Choice

The author establishes other mental health awareness by describing-

• Stevens’ experience during his military service

• the nightmares patients can experience after their service

• the worry Steven’s has for soldiers who do not have PTSD

• specific mental illnesses some soldiers can experience other than PTSD

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the article?

• Stevens’ concern with soldiers returning from war and being automatically diagnosed with PTSD

• The amount of unspeakable things experience while at war and how soldiers are handling it

• Steven’s negative experience at war and how he was impacted with having PTSD

• The rising worry Clinicians have about soldiers returning from war with mental health illnesses

Multiple Choice

Which of these is the best summary of the article?

• Throughout his life in the military service, Captain Stevens experienced unspeakable experience fighting during the war. He shares the result of horrific scenes he witnessed, and how he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• The military and clinicians wanted to ensure that all soldiers returning from war received adequate treatment for any mental illness they developed during the service. One of the soldier who received treatment was Captain Matt Stevens.

• Veteran, Captain Matt Stevens, calls into questions every soldier being diagnosed with PTSD. He suggests that soldiers could also suffer from other mental illnesses. Stevens along with other health professionals continue to call into question PTSD diagnoses for returning soldiers.

• A number of soldiers witness horrifying scenes during the service and in war. Matt Stevens and other health professionals discuss the mental health issues that could stem from these experience. Their goal is to help every soldier recover so they are able to live a healthy life.

Read the quotations from the two selections

• "The amazing thing was that no one knew. Here was all this stuff going on, pounding heart, panicked breathing, sweating palms, electric eyes, and no one regarded him as anything but the great soldier he’d always been"

• "He worries that many of these men and women are being pulled into a treatment and disability regime that will mire them in a self-fulfilling vision of a brain rewired, a psyche permanently haunted."

Multiple Choice

These quotations provide evidence that both Finkel from “Thank You for Your Service” and the author of “The Post-Traumatic Stress Trap” felt— (5C)

• all soldiers need help with mental illness when they return from war.

• worried about soldiers with mental illnesses who do not come forward for help.

• that PTSD needs to be more specifically defined in order to help soldiers.

• sorry that solider have to experience such traumatic experience.