Progress Check #1 ACTIVE READING STRATEGIES (50 Points) PART A: List the five active reading strategies. In your own words‚ explain each strategy in one or two sentences. (5 pts. each for a total of 25 pts). 1. Predicting: Predicting to me will be guessing what will happen next‚ whether it be watching a episode of my favorite show‚ reading a story‚ or just listening to someone talk. 2. Visualizing: Visualizing to me will be putting myself in the passage or book I’m reading
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character Walter Younger in the play A Raisin in the Sun is a man who believe true happiness is only achieved by living the American Dream to the fullest. Walter’s mind is twisted and warped by society into thinking money is the key to become truly happy in life. He is also living in a home where he is trying to live up to his dead father’s footsteps‚ which puts a lot of stress on his shoulders and he has a tough time trying to relieve his own self of this stress. Walter Younger is a perfect example
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Chapter 18 Summary: The chapter starts off with the understanding that there is the coming of Mama King’s daughter Token and Cyclette. Matron is in great fear of this confrontation. However she does a routine each day to be ready for this upcoming event‚ looking through the window down the road heading to the house but then nature took cores between 10 to midday and the sky was over taken by the rain. Then old Miss Turvey would sing out a song to the rain. On the progressing day they had arrive
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Character Sketch Alice ("Mirror Image") The character of Alice in Lena Coakley’s "Mirror Image" is insecure and uncomfortable. Alice is going through a change; a change brought on by a devastating car crash which left her clinging to her life in an unresurectable body. Alice becomes the first patient to ever receive a brain transplant‚ giving her a completely new appearance. Although Alice is entirely aware of this‚ she is still extremely confused about the new changes‚ which seem to surround
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“ Que pasa “(what’s up)my grandpa said over the phone. “ I’m just at home con mi mama”‚ I replied. “ Yo y tu Nana Amanda vamos ir a México mañana quieres venir?”(your grandma Amanda and I are going to Mexico do you want to come?) I said “ Espere le voy a preguntar a mi mama”(hold on i’m going to ask my mom). I asked my mom if I could go and she said ‚“I’m not going to be able to go I have notes to write for work over the weekend.” I said‚ “ You have notes but I don’t‚ so can I go.” My mom said
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I believe the point of Lena M. Ampadu’s article was not to make a final statement or a specific argument about some arbitrary topic‚ but to share a few anecdotes and personal experiences to help open the reader to an alternate point of view. Similarly to Geneva Smitherman‚ Ampadu gives the impression that she is in the boat sailing down the stream of contempt for current English teaching standards. Yet‚ Ampadu states that there is a Standard form of English and that “Those who resist such code switching
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anyone who is different‚ but refuses to keep being anything but unique. One dreary night in the city of Avalon; a mama dragon was giving birth to a baby dragon. She was so excited to be having her own baby who would fly around with her and who she could teach all the things she has learned to. A couple hours later... The baby dragon was born and mama dragon named him Danny. Mama dragon immediately realized instead of having the nice dark color scales all dragons have‚ Danny was born with bright
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Character Analysis of Walter in “A Raisin in the Sun” Throughout this play you really see the Younger family go through a lot. You can really see them at their highest points and their lowest. Also‚ you can see them go through changes in their personal lives and personalities. The most prominent character where you see these changes is Walter Lee Younger. He is just a man that wants what he feels is best for his family and he is willing to pretty much do whatever he has to do to achieve his dream
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that is the first time Lena saw him‚ and he left a impression winking at her. 2. She meets Alex officially on a run with her friend Hana. Lena and Hana trespassed and were caught by him and Lena certainly recognized him. That same day Alex arranged a date for Lena and him but when Lena showed up it was to late. They meet again at a forbidden party‚ where they dance. 3.The next party Lena finds herself at is interrupted by the Regulators (the people who keep order in town). As Lena tries to
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Biography of Lena Maria Klingvall Background: Lena Maria Klingvall‚ from Jonkoping‚ Sweden‚ was 20 years old when she became known to the Swedish TV-viewers through the documentary called ‘Goal in Sight’. Lena Maria was born in 1968 without arms and with only one healthy leg while the other one is half developed. She has to walk with an artificial leg and the cause of her disability is unknown. Lena Maria learnt how to swim when she was only three years old. At the age of
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