Reading Reflection English 125 Julie Pal-Agrawal Christopher Riley 10/17/2012 Literary work has taught me to see things clearly and understand the significance of what the speaker or author is trying to convey. Here are three types of words that a writer regularly use to stimulate our imagination. * Smile-A word picture that contains a direct comparison of two things that are ordinarily not thought to be similar‚ using like or as to connect them. In” The Blue Bowl”(section 3.2)Jane Kenyon
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Close Reading There are those things in life that hardly take any time to become an expert at. Close Reading is not one of those things. Close reading can most simply be defined as the technique of taking a piece of writing piece by piece and hyper-analyzing every little bit of it. The concept may not seem too difficult and complex‚ however‚ most of the thinking behind it is metacognition. Metacognition is the word for thinking about the way you think. Both of these concepts are incredibly important
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Reading Reports Description: • Please read two books from the Penguin Reader collection or another source. • Write one book report for each book you read • When choosing a book‚ if there are more than 2 or 3 words on a page that you do not understand‚ then the book is too difficult for you. If you understand all the words on a page‚ then the book is too easy for you. • Do not choose books that are too difficult or too easy for you. If Level 5 has too many vocabulary words per
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INDIVIDUAL GUIDED READING Name: Article title Friedman‚ M. (1970) ‘The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits’. New York Times Magazine‚ 13 Sept: 56-61. Article summary Friedman argues that the objective of a corporation is to maximize the profits within the guidelines of the law in the free and open society. If the corporate executive has a “social responsibility”‚ which means his is to act that is not in the interest of his employers. Introduction
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Chapters 1-3 1.Analyze why Ruth begins her narrative with “I’m dead.” Ruth begins her narrative with “I’m dead” because technically‚ she is dead to her family. They do not care for her anymore now that she has “betrayed” them. Later in the book‚ Ruth recalls‚ “When Jews say kaddish‚ they’re not responsible for you anymore. You’re dead to them. Saying kaddish and sitting shiva‚ that absolves them of any responsibility for you.” Ruth basically wants to let her readers know at the beginning that her
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english comp 2 Final test notes A&P Plot Overview Three teenage girls‚ wearing only their bathing suits‚ walk into an A&P grocery store in a small New England town. Sammy‚ a young man working the checkout line‚ watches them closely. He appraises their looks and notes even minute details about the way they carry themselves. He also speculates about their personalities and their motivation for entering the store dressed the way they are. Sammy is particularly interested in the most attractive
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Act 1 Scene 1 1. Orlando’s situation he finds himself in at the beginning of the play is that of an issue of primogeniture. Upon Orlando’s father’s death he was bequeathed a small 1000 crowns‚ which is not an amount sufficient for his social standing. His brother Oliver is his only chance of redemption of his former life‚ to gain the education his father wanted him to have. Oliver provided this to Orlando’s younger brother however he did not afford Orlando any education whatsoever and as such Orlando
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SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2013 9TH GRADE Mrs. Nelson: nelson@greenvilleisd.com; Cell- 903-269-0603 English I Pre-AP Summer Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Available at Hastings‚ Barnes and Noble‚ or on Amazon.com [pic] [pic] Assignment: While you read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ note and annotate passages that you think are significant. Mark that book! 1. The goal is to note your thoughts about selected quotes as you read. 2. While you are reading‚ you
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A: NOTING DETAILS Exercise 1 CLEANING YOURSELF Luz said‚ “I am clean and pretty. I wash my face. I put on a clean dress. I trim my nails. I comb my hair. Look at me. Am I not pretty?” Comprehension Question: 1.Who is talking? A. Mother B. Luz C. A boy 2. What does she do with her face? A. She washes it. B. She combs it. C. She cuts it. 3.What does she do with her nails? A. She cleans them. B. She trims them. C. She washes
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Literature Research Essay: Reading the City. Cities are places which enable the realisation of the self‚ or conversely cities separate the self from creativity and imagination in spaces of alienation and estrangement’ (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). Discuss the city as a site of self-enhancement and/or ‘alienation and estrangement’ in the texts on the unit. Our surroundings manipulate the way we react and interact with both others and ourselves. We are like putty waiting to be moulded by the
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