Hello everyone! My name is Arielle Hudson. I am a student at Los Medanos Community College, and it is almost the end of my second year. i still havent decided on a major yet. I am known to be quite undecissive, but my time will eventually come. When that happens I am hoping to transfer to San Diego State University. It is a huge goal of mine to one day graduate from a State University. I am also a nanny to two young girls ages 5 and 9, and i feel truly blessed to be able to work with there family.
My parents Deane and Diane. I am so lucky to have such wonderful supportive parents. I could not have accomplished the things i have in life without them.
My older sisters Cami and Michelle, they help me through anything. Sisters by blood, friends by choice.
This is a picture of my three best friends and I in Miami, Lauryn, Lindsay, and Becka. All for one and one for all.
I want to go as many places in the world as I possibly can. Here are a few places I have traveled to. This is in Maui, Hawaii. I went on vactaion after i graduated from highschool.
This is in on the roof of the condo I stayed at in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Lake Shasta
Some of the Work I have done at LMC
Paraphrasing
Plagiarism is something that is not taken lightly in college. If you get caught plagiarizing harsh measures will be taken, even to the point of expelling a student. I learned a new technique called paraphrasing where it can help make sure not to ever have this problem. Paraphrasing makes you understand what it is you are reading and helps you make sure to discuss the matter in your own words. This is a great technique to learn for future reference going off to a four year. It has and will continue to help me when i need to use certain information for my assignments. In my notes on paraphrasing i show examples of how to change sentences or phrases to a completley different sentence that has the same meaning.
March 23, 2010
Paraphrasing
Reading
Thinking
Understanding what you’ve read
Paraphrasing is just re-writing it
1. By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.
What? Our planet
What about it? 4.54 billion years old
Who says? Current scientific reckoning
You have to look at it, find what it’s talking about, and rewrite in your own words.
Paraphrasing: Recent studies have shown by scientists our earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old.
2. When it comes to momentous events in US history, the war of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many-a forgettable hiccup in history.
What? The war of 1812
What about it? Ranks low in the minds of many
Paraphrasing: The war of 1812 is not a very memorable part of US history.
3. Within six years, Marie Curie’s findings had wowed her dissertation committee, won her and her husband, Pierre, the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics and put Marie on course for a solo Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911.
What? (Not who) Marie Curie’s findings got her the Nobel Prize
Did what? (3 things) wowed her dissertation committee, won her and husband 1903 Nobel Prize for physics, and Marie won a solo prize in chemistry 1911.
Paraphrasing: Marie Curie and husband shocked her dissertation committee with their
Discoveries on physics and winning the Nobel prize in 1903 for the same subject. Soon after in 1911 Marie won a Nobel Prize on her own for chemistry.
4. Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell that patients complained that they could no longer smell things-a condition known as anosmia-were brushed aside.
Who? Patients who complained that they could no longer smell things
What happened to them? They were brushed aside
Why? The doctors knew little about sense of smell
When? A decade ago
Paraphrasing: Until the late 1980s doctors ignored patients with Anosmia-an inability to smell things-because they didn’t know much about the sense of smell.
Paraphrasing
Reading
Thinking
Understanding what you’ve read
Paraphrasing is just re-writing it
1. By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.
What? Our planet
What about it? 4.54 billion years old
Who says? Current scientific reckoning
You have to look at it, find what it’s talking about, and rewrite in your own words.
Paraphrasing: Recent studies have shown by scientists our earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old.
2. When it comes to momentous events in US history, the war of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many-a forgettable hiccup in history.
What? The war of 1812
What about it? Ranks low in the minds of many
Paraphrasing: The war of 1812 is not a very memorable part of US history.
3. Within six years, Marie Curie’s findings had wowed her dissertation committee, won her and her husband, Pierre, the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics and put Marie on course for a solo Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911.
What? (Not who) Marie Curie’s findings got her the Nobel Prize
Did what? (3 things) wowed her dissertation committee, won her and husband 1903 Nobel Prize for physics, and Marie won a solo prize in chemistry 1911.
Paraphrasing: Marie Curie and husband shocked her dissertation committee with their
Discoveries on physics and winning the Nobel prize in 1903 for the same subject. Soon after in 1911 Marie won a Nobel Prize on her own for chemistry.
4. Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell that patients complained that they could no longer smell things-a condition known as anosmia-were brushed aside.
Who? Patients who complained that they could no longer smell things
What happened to them? They were brushed aside
Why? The doctors knew little about sense of smell
When? A decade ago
Paraphrasing: Until the late 1980s doctors ignored patients with Anosmia-an inability to smell things-because they didn’t know much about the sense of smell.
Paragraph.
Here are some notes that I took while attending Mr. Yeongs English Class
Your Own Definitions
(A quick assignment we did where we tried to write our own definitions to these specific words.)
Race- the color of your skin where as ethnicity is your cultural background.
Discrimination- When someone prejudges someone else’s way of life, beliefs, skin color, and uses it against them.
Prejudice- when someone judges someone for a certain reason and acts negatively towards that reason.
Stereotyping- putting people into a certain category that YOU think they belong in, whether it is a right or wrong judgment.
Racism- being against someone or a group of people due to the color of their skin, physical features.
Ethnicity- someone’s cultural background, where you come from, where your family comes from.
(A quick assignment we did where we tried to write our own definitions to these specific words.)
Race- the color of your skin where as ethnicity is your cultural background.
Discrimination- When someone prejudges someone else’s way of life, beliefs, skin color, and uses it against them.
Prejudice- when someone judges someone for a certain reason and acts negatively towards that reason.
Stereotyping- putting people into a certain category that YOU think they belong in, whether it is a right or wrong judgment.
Racism- being against someone or a group of people due to the color of their skin, physical features.
Ethnicity- someone’s cultural background, where you come from, where your family comes from.
Vocabulary Words
( These were important vocabulary words we had while reading "The Things They Carried," By Tim O'Brien.)
1. Rectitude-rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue 68
2. Aesthetic-having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty 81
3. Mundane –common place 89
4. Digressions- a passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing. 107
5. Pagoda-a temple or sacred building. 119
6. Surreal-having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream. 71
7. Anarchy-against government 82
8. Superlatives- something excessive? 90
9. Endorphins- any of a group or peptides occurring in the brain and other tissues of vertebrates, and resembling opiates, that react with the opiate receptors to raise the pain threshold. 114
10. Cadres- military the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit. 128
11. Napalm –a jellylike substance used in fire bombs, and flame throwers.75
12. Trite-lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition 83
13. Imprecision – not precise, not exact; vague or ill defined. 99
14. Eccentricity-an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct. 116
15. Plasters –a composition as of lime or gypsum san, water, sometimes hair, or other fiber applied in a pastry to wall or ceiling that will dry and harden. 129
16. Ordnance-cannon or artillery 75
17. Sadism-any enjoyment in being cruel 87
18. Opaque- not transparent or translucent; not allowing light to pass through 105
19. Talisman-a stone, ring, or other object engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess, and worn as an amulet or charm. 118
20. Hamlet-small village 135
21. Metabolism-the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. 2
22. Encyst- to enclose in something. 20
23. Amortizing –to liquidate or distinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), esp. by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund.40
24. Deferments- postponements 43
25. Platitudes- a fat dull or trite remark esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound. 45
26. Topography- the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality. 5
27. Comport- to bear or conduct (oneself); behave. 25
28. Liberal – favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. 42
29. Pacifist-peace lover 44
30. Cryptic- mysterious in meaning. Puzzling. 40
31. Volition- choice 15
32. Antipersonnel – against enemy36
33. Hawk – a person who preys on others, as a sharper.42
34. Schizophrenic –mental conflict 44
35. Reticence – disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved. 51
36. Ambiguities – doubtfulness of uncertainty of meaning or intention. 16
37. Lethal-deadly36-37
38. Eviscerated – to remove the contents of. 42
38. Acquiescence – agreement or consent by silence or without objection 45
40. Impassive – without emotion, apathetic ; unmoved. 60
41. Gangrene – death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition. 190
42. Rapport – relation; connection esp. harmonious or sympathetic relation. 203
43. Inflection – modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.212
44. Hunt – to chase or search for (game or wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing. 221
45. Illusion – something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality. 230
46. Tempo – relative rapidity or rate of movement. 193
47. Coherence – logical interconnection; overall sense of understandability. 209
48. Wistful –characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning. 212
49. Protoplasm – the living matter of organisms regarded as the physical basis of life, having the ability to sense and conduct stimuli. 221
50. Inert –having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance. 232
52. Tic – a sudden spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction as of the face.201
53. Atrocity – the quality or state of being fearful.209
54. Lucid –easily understood. 214
55. Ghoulish –strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous. 222
56. Translucent –permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc. on the opposite side are not clearly visible. 235
57. Levitate –to rise or float in the air.202
58. Resonance the state or quality of being resonant.210
59. Mutant – a new type of organism produced as the result of mutation. 222
60. Snipe – any of several long-billed game birds or a shot usually from a hidden position.222
61. Chronologies –the sequential order in which past event occur.228
62. Blatant –brazenly obvious. 239
( These were important vocabulary words we had while reading "The Things They Carried," By Tim O'Brien.)
1. Rectitude-rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue 68
2. Aesthetic-having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty 81
3. Mundane –common place 89
4. Digressions- a passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing. 107
5. Pagoda-a temple or sacred building. 119
6. Surreal-having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream. 71
7. Anarchy-against government 82
8. Superlatives- something excessive? 90
9. Endorphins- any of a group or peptides occurring in the brain and other tissues of vertebrates, and resembling opiates, that react with the opiate receptors to raise the pain threshold. 114
10. Cadres- military the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit. 128
11. Napalm –a jellylike substance used in fire bombs, and flame throwers.75
12. Trite-lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition 83
13. Imprecision – not precise, not exact; vague or ill defined. 99
14. Eccentricity-an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct. 116
15. Plasters –a composition as of lime or gypsum san, water, sometimes hair, or other fiber applied in a pastry to wall or ceiling that will dry and harden. 129
16. Ordnance-cannon or artillery 75
17. Sadism-any enjoyment in being cruel 87
18. Opaque- not transparent or translucent; not allowing light to pass through 105
19. Talisman-a stone, ring, or other object engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess, and worn as an amulet or charm. 118
20. Hamlet-small village 135
21. Metabolism-the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. 2
22. Encyst- to enclose in something. 20
23. Amortizing –to liquidate or distinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), esp. by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund.40
24. Deferments- postponements 43
25. Platitudes- a fat dull or trite remark esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound. 45
26. Topography- the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality. 5
27. Comport- to bear or conduct (oneself); behave. 25
28. Liberal – favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. 42
29. Pacifist-peace lover 44
30. Cryptic- mysterious in meaning. Puzzling. 40
31. Volition- choice 15
32. Antipersonnel – against enemy36
33. Hawk – a person who preys on others, as a sharper.42
34. Schizophrenic –mental conflict 44
35. Reticence – disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved. 51
36. Ambiguities – doubtfulness of uncertainty of meaning or intention. 16
37. Lethal-deadly36-37
38. Eviscerated – to remove the contents of. 42
38. Acquiescence – agreement or consent by silence or without objection 45
40. Impassive – without emotion, apathetic ; unmoved. 60
41. Gangrene – death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition. 190
42. Rapport – relation; connection esp. harmonious or sympathetic relation. 203
43. Inflection – modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.212
44. Hunt – to chase or search for (game or wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing. 221
45. Illusion – something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality. 230
46. Tempo – relative rapidity or rate of movement. 193
47. Coherence – logical interconnection; overall sense of understandability. 209
48. Wistful –characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning. 212
49. Protoplasm – the living matter of organisms regarded as the physical basis of life, having the ability to sense and conduct stimuli. 221
50. Inert –having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance. 232
52. Tic – a sudden spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction as of the face.201
53. Atrocity – the quality or state of being fearful.209
54. Lucid –easily understood. 214
55. Ghoulish –strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous. 222
56. Translucent –permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc. on the opposite side are not clearly visible. 235
57. Levitate –to rise or float in the air.202
58. Resonance the state or quality of being resonant.210
59. Mutant – a new type of organism produced as the result of mutation. 222
60. Snipe – any of several long-billed game birds or a shot usually from a hidden position.222
61. Chronologies –the sequential order in which past event occur.228
62. Blatant –brazenly obvious. 239
February 2, 2010
Thinking Aloud
(These are prompts that we used throughout the semester to help us better understand what we were reading. It lets us answer the questions we have during a specfic reading. It also really helps to look back on if you are writing an assignment from a reading.)
I wonder…
I begin to think of…
I suppose…
I predict…
I don’t see...
I like the way the author…
I know the feeling…
I noticed…
I love the way…
I was surprised when…
I felt I didn’t really understand…
I thought…
I couldn’t believe it when…
If I had been…
I was reminded of…
Why did…
Maybe…
I wish…
It bothered me when…
"Nothing is boring, unless you make it boring."-Mr. Yeong.
Vietnam Movie: The Sixties.
(I wrote notes on what I got out of the Movie.)
Kennedy and Martin Luther King both assassinated.
War, racial equality, generation rebelled, and lost their innocence. White men were no longer going to control everything in America. Equality everywhere. President Johnson, declared war on poverty. Tongan gulf resolution. Half a million Americans stationed in Vietnam by 1967. Society began to rebel against war, hippies! The Diggers were people who begged borrowed and stole to provide free food for others. In order to get the food you had to step through a “free frame” and then you got a little necklace. People could experience new way of living. Birth control helped begin the sexual era. A Lot of drugs and music. (Lucky.) Blacks made a change in the sixties from being negros to eventually African Americans. “I’m black and I’m proud.” The black panthers began in Oakland CA. Huey Newton began the black panthers, took classes about law enforcement to know what they were doing. Bobby Seale was the co-founder. They wanted to know the law since Oakland had a really racist police department, and there rights.
We were in Vietnam supposedly because we were helping them find independence for themselves, But that’s not really why they were there. A CBS reporter went to Vietnam and showed people how they were losing the war, and it proved it. People actually could see these shocking stories. President Johnson eventually quit after many campaigns going against everything he was doing.
People didn’t even know the PURPOSE of the war. Pentagon papers showed that the war could never be won but they were still in Vietnam fighting.
Solders’ were probably getting letters about what’s going on at home, but the soldier’s were getting mixed feelings because they were working so hard at Vietnam and MANY people weren’t appreciating it. Minorities were more likely to go to war. Soldiers who were interviewed at Vietnam seemed very discouraged about the war.
15,000 dead at 1968 made it seem like when ted died it wasn’t that big a deal because they had seen so many deaths.
Jimmy Cross could have been drafted and did not want to be in the war, along with many other people. Kiowa may have also been drafted into the war.
Ted lavender could have been sent to Vietnam after all the drug movement happened because he was so scared and always had dope.
Martha was a poet, never talking about the war…she could have been totally involved in the sixties movement.
May 4, 2010
Theory
(These were specfic notes we took on how to better your reading skills. Taking these notes helped me better understand what i could improve on in reading. I can use these notes in my other classes to help me as well.)
If you read a paragraph well, you can read a chapter well.
If you read a chapter well you can read a book well
Read purposely: read in different ways for each new situation, each time aiming to discover what the author is saying.
Author originally took ideas and translated them into words. Now the reader must retranslate those words into meaning.
-Using your own ideas and experiences to help you.
-“Translation requires analytic, evaluative and creative sets of acts”
Purposes for Reading
Sheer pleasure
To figure out a simple idea
To gain specific technical information
To enter, understand, and appreciate a new world view
To learn a new subject
To know the authors purpose in order to have a productive reading experience
Develop a map of knowledge
Know primary ideas about your material
Reading further allows you to develop secondary ideas about your material
Further reading allows you to develop peripheral ideas about your material
Use reading to connect ideas and develop understanding.
Consider the authors purpose
Politician-develop campaign literature
Newspaper editor-to choose stories to run
Advertiser-sell a product
Chemist-to draft a lab report
Novelist-to compose a novel
Student- research paper
Avoid impressionistic reading
An impressionistic mind is fragmented, uncritical, self-deceived, and rigid.
Don’t wander from paragraph to paragraph
Make a distinction between the authors thinking and your own thinking.
Without that insight you bring your prejudices, biases, myths and stereotypes to your understanding of the paragraph. You bring no reflecting, monitoring, or evaluating that would allow you new understanding of the topic.
Thinking about your reading while you are reading
A reflective mind comes from reflectively thinking about the thinking process (metacognition)
Actively monitor your own thinking while you read the authors thinking.
Think about your reading and then think about your thinking process during that reading!
Actively engage the text
Interact with that author:
Summarize the paragraphs meaning into your own words.
Give examples from your own experience that relate to what the text is saying
Illustrate ideas from the text with your own metaphors, similes, or diagrams.
Ask yourself what ideas you need to clarify so you develop a better understanding of the text than you first gained.
Connect the core ideas of the text to other core ideas that you already understand.
Critical Thinking
Has a purpose
Raises questions
Uses prior information
Utilizes concepts
Makes inferences( pull out clues after reading the text)
Acknowledges assumptions
Generates implications
Embodies a point of view
Five levels of close reading
1. Paraphrase the text of paragraph sentence by sentence.
2. Explicate (the idea) the thesis of each paragraph
3. Analyze the logic of each paragraph
4. Assess the logic of each paragraph-look at the work?
5. Role-play or speak in the voice of the author of each paragraph.
How to read a paragraph
Move from paragraph to paragraph + ask:
What is the paragraphs most important idea?
How does the idea relate to ideas in the previous paragraphs?
How are the important ideas in the text connected?
How can i relate this idea to something i already understand?
Is there and important idea in the paragraph that I can use in my thinking?
Thinking Aloud
(These are prompts that we used throughout the semester to help us better understand what we were reading. It lets us answer the questions we have during a specfic reading. It also really helps to look back on if you are writing an assignment from a reading.)
I wonder…
I begin to think of…
I suppose…
I predict…
I don’t see...
I like the way the author…
I know the feeling…
I noticed…
I love the way…
I was surprised when…
I felt I didn’t really understand…
I thought…
I couldn’t believe it when…
If I had been…
I was reminded of…
Why did…
Maybe…
I wish…
It bothered me when…
"Nothing is boring, unless you make it boring."-Mr. Yeong.
Vietnam Movie: The Sixties.
(I wrote notes on what I got out of the Movie.)
Kennedy and Martin Luther King both assassinated.
War, racial equality, generation rebelled, and lost their innocence. White men were no longer going to control everything in America. Equality everywhere. President Johnson, declared war on poverty. Tongan gulf resolution. Half a million Americans stationed in Vietnam by 1967. Society began to rebel against war, hippies! The Diggers were people who begged borrowed and stole to provide free food for others. In order to get the food you had to step through a “free frame” and then you got a little necklace. People could experience new way of living. Birth control helped begin the sexual era. A Lot of drugs and music. (Lucky.) Blacks made a change in the sixties from being negros to eventually African Americans. “I’m black and I’m proud.” The black panthers began in Oakland CA. Huey Newton began the black panthers, took classes about law enforcement to know what they were doing. Bobby Seale was the co-founder. They wanted to know the law since Oakland had a really racist police department, and there rights.
We were in Vietnam supposedly because we were helping them find independence for themselves, But that’s not really why they were there. A CBS reporter went to Vietnam and showed people how they were losing the war, and it proved it. People actually could see these shocking stories. President Johnson eventually quit after many campaigns going against everything he was doing.
People didn’t even know the PURPOSE of the war. Pentagon papers showed that the war could never be won but they were still in Vietnam fighting.
Solders’ were probably getting letters about what’s going on at home, but the soldier’s were getting mixed feelings because they were working so hard at Vietnam and MANY people weren’t appreciating it. Minorities were more likely to go to war. Soldiers who were interviewed at Vietnam seemed very discouraged about the war.
15,000 dead at 1968 made it seem like when ted died it wasn’t that big a deal because they had seen so many deaths.
Jimmy Cross could have been drafted and did not want to be in the war, along with many other people. Kiowa may have also been drafted into the war.
Ted lavender could have been sent to Vietnam after all the drug movement happened because he was so scared and always had dope.
Martha was a poet, never talking about the war…she could have been totally involved in the sixties movement.
May 4, 2010
Theory
(These were specfic notes we took on how to better your reading skills. Taking these notes helped me better understand what i could improve on in reading. I can use these notes in my other classes to help me as well.)
If you read a paragraph well, you can read a chapter well.
If you read a chapter well you can read a book well
Read purposely: read in different ways for each new situation, each time aiming to discover what the author is saying.
Author originally took ideas and translated them into words. Now the reader must retranslate those words into meaning.
-Using your own ideas and experiences to help you.
-“Translation requires analytic, evaluative and creative sets of acts”
Purposes for Reading
Sheer pleasure
To figure out a simple idea
To gain specific technical information
To enter, understand, and appreciate a new world view
To learn a new subject
To know the authors purpose in order to have a productive reading experience
Develop a map of knowledge
Know primary ideas about your material
Reading further allows you to develop secondary ideas about your material
Further reading allows you to develop peripheral ideas about your material
Use reading to connect ideas and develop understanding.
Consider the authors purpose
Politician-develop campaign literature
Newspaper editor-to choose stories to run
Advertiser-sell a product
Chemist-to draft a lab report
Novelist-to compose a novel
Student- research paper
Avoid impressionistic reading
An impressionistic mind is fragmented, uncritical, self-deceived, and rigid.
Don’t wander from paragraph to paragraph
Make a distinction between the authors thinking and your own thinking.
Without that insight you bring your prejudices, biases, myths and stereotypes to your understanding of the paragraph. You bring no reflecting, monitoring, or evaluating that would allow you new understanding of the topic.
Thinking about your reading while you are reading
A reflective mind comes from reflectively thinking about the thinking process (metacognition)
Actively monitor your own thinking while you read the authors thinking.
Think about your reading and then think about your thinking process during that reading!
Actively engage the text
Interact with that author:
Summarize the paragraphs meaning into your own words.
Give examples from your own experience that relate to what the text is saying
Illustrate ideas from the text with your own metaphors, similes, or diagrams.
Ask yourself what ideas you need to clarify so you develop a better understanding of the text than you first gained.
Connect the core ideas of the text to other core ideas that you already understand.
Critical Thinking
Has a purpose
Raises questions
Uses prior information
Utilizes concepts
Makes inferences( pull out clues after reading the text)
Acknowledges assumptions
Generates implications
Embodies a point of view
Five levels of close reading
1. Paraphrase the text of paragraph sentence by sentence.
2. Explicate (the idea) the thesis of each paragraph
3. Analyze the logic of each paragraph
4. Assess the logic of each paragraph-look at the work?
5. Role-play or speak in the voice of the author of each paragraph.
How to read a paragraph
Move from paragraph to paragraph + ask:
What is the paragraphs most important idea?
How does the idea relate to ideas in the previous paragraphs?
How are the important ideas in the text connected?
How can i relate this idea to something i already understand?
Is there and important idea in the paragraph that I can use in my thinking?
