The document provides guidance on how to complete a close reading task for a Year 7 RE Spiritual Journey assignment. It instructs students to form focus questions, highlight keywords, skim and scan sources for relevant information, decide if the material answers the question, and take notes. It then provides an example of how to apply this process to complete Part 3 of the task, which involves discussing the importance and relevance of sacraments to Christianity today. It offers tips on finding relevant sources, taking focused notes, and properly citing sources.

1. Year 7 RE Spiritual Journey
Close Reading – Identifying
Relevance of information related to a
focus question.

2. Process to answer the requirements of
each paragraph of the task:
1. Form focus questions.
2. Highlight keywords in the focus questions.
3. Skim and scan possible sources of
information.
4. Decide if the material is relevant to
answering the question.
5. Take notes from the source.

3. Part 3 of the Task: Discuss why sacraments are
important to the shaping of Christianity and the Church
as we know it today, including reference to your
sacrament and its place in the big picture and how it is
still relevant today.
1. Create Focus questions:
*Why is ……… important to being a Christian?
*Why is ……..it relevant to being a Christian today?
(important)
2. Highlight keywords:

4. 3. Looking for relevant material
Use keywords: relevance, importance, today’s Christians
Terrace eScholar Page:
1) Go to the relevant heading for the sacrament you have
chosen
2) Cursor over the title for a description
3) Look for the key words in the description
4) Click on the hyperlink and go to the page
5) Skim the article for relevant headings
6) Scan the text for keywords

5. e.g.
The Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation
1. Read the description on the page on Terrace
eScholar. Words such as “meaning”, “importance”
and “today’s world”, tell us its relevant.
2. Skim the headings - there is one on “Importance”
and “Meaning”.
3. Now look closer for “today’s world”. Look at the
heading, “How to grow in the gifts of Baptism?”
4. Use the ‘Ctl + F’ or ‘Cmd + F’ function to locate
keywords.

6. Note-taking: what actually do I write
down?
A few do’s:
• Use headings (Use keywords)
• Use bullet points
• Leave out unnecessary details and words
• Use abbreviations
• Underline / highlight important information
A few dont’s:
• Write whole sentences
• Copy and paste

7. What should my notes look like?
Importance of Baptism
• Most basic sacrament
• Cannot receive other sacraments unless have
baptism
• Soul receives supernatural life
• Gives grace from God

8. Remember to record the source of
your notes:
• Author?
• Year?
• Title of webpage?
• Date retrieved?

9. Bibliography
Hardon, J. (1998). The sacraments of baptism and
confirmation. Retrieved July 26, 2015 from http://
www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-
contributions/the-sacraments-of-baptism-and-
confirmation.html