This document summarizes a webpage on Bernie Sanders' campaign website that criticizes drug companies for charging high prices for medications that many Americans cannot afford. The purpose is to argue Sanders' position that prescription drug costs in the U.S. are too high and present information supporting his view that drugmakers are hurting American people for profit. It aims to provide persuasive information for potential voters on Sanders' stance on this issue.

1. “I found out that
drugmakers are actually
hurting the lives of our
everyday people!”

2. First, Skimming the
Headline

3. Prescription Drugs Are
too much money for
American People.
(Summarize)

4. Questioning

5. This webpage talks about drugmakers,
and their outrageous costs for
pharmaceuticals that people today
can’t pay for, but who wrote this
article? And Why?

6. Reading the Header
to see who owns the
site.(Snatch and
Grab reading)

7. The header says
Bernie 2016.

8. And so does the Title Bar.
(Connecting Evidence
Within a text)

9. I know that Bernie Sanders
is running for president.
(Prior Knowledge)

10. Why does Bernie
2016 want this
information posted
here?
(Resistant
Questioning)

11. I know these tabs give readers information
on Bernie Sanders. (Prior Knowledge of
Medium)

12. By Scanning the tabs, I can
figure out the key goals of
this website.

13. The Website’s
volunteers must be
people who want to
support Bernie.
(Inference, Information
Literacy)

14. And want to know his
position on issues.
(Information literacy,
Inference)

15. But why post
information about
drugmakers on this
website? (Resistant
Question)

16. Scanning the
page

17. Here are
breadcrumbs…
(Knowledge of
the Medium)

18. This page is part of a section of
press releases. (Prior knowledge
of the medium)

19. Reporters must
come to this article
for Sanders’
position on this
issue (Inference).

20. I’ll read the first two paragraphs. (Prior Knowledge of
Nonfiction Text Pattern)

21. The underlined
sentences criticize the
status quo that is in
place. (Point of View)

22. Probably, the purpose of this
webpage is to argue Sanders
position. (Hypothesis, Synthesis)

23. What I know so far….
Point of View: Support of a candidate for
president.
Main Idea: Our medicine costs, are the highest in
the whole world, and people in the United States
cannot pay for pharmaceutical medicine.
Audience: Candidates supports, voters, and press.
Purpose: provide persuasive information for
potential voters, so that they are in support of Bernie
Sanders.

24. I wonder if this information is accurate? (Identifies a
need for an information literary process)

25. My first step is to develop a search strategy to check the statements
about medicinal costs.

26. Source Authorit
y
Annual
Earnings
Date
Healthcare for
America Now
http://healthcarefor
americanow.org/201
3/04/08/pharma-
711-billion-profits-
price-gouging-
seniors/
Lobbying
Organization
Pharmaceutical
Company Johnson &
Johnson made 711.4
billion from 2003-
2012.
04/08/13
Statista
http://www.statista.
com/topics/1764/glo
bal-pharmaceutical-
industry/
.com 44.5% of
pharmaceutical
revenue in the whole
world is in North
America.
2014
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress
.org/health/2013/04
/08/1835991/big-
pharma-billion-
profits/
Lobbying
Organization
Big Pharma Reaped
$84 Billion In Profits
Last Year
04/13
Then use an organizer to gather economical data from
several sources. (Gather, Organize, and Compare)

27. My question for future
research, can this
information be expressed
without the action of using
the online reading
strategies?

28. Sources
• https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-calls-
drugmakers-a-health-hazard-for-the-american-people/
• http://healthcareforamericanow.org/2013/04/08/pharma-
711-billion-profits-price-gouging-seniors/
• http://www.statista.com/topics/1764/global-
pharmaceutical-industry/
• http://www.statista.com/topics/1764/global-
pharmaceutical-industry/