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Second Reading: vocabulary in Context
Now that you have read the passage silently, listen and follow along as your teacher reads the passage aloud. As you read along with your teacher, circle words and/or phrases that are used as transitions to indicate the seven ages of life.
Check your Understanding
1. Pair with another student and, using context clues and reference resources, try
to determine the meaning of any additional words you need to define. Then choose six words from the vocabulary that have been underlined, bolded, and/ or you have circled and discuss how the definitions help you understand the meaning of the passage.
2. Choose two or three of the words you have examined that you think are significant to understanding the passage. Use the words in sentences as part of a summary explaining the central ideas in the passage and explaining how these words contribute to your understanding of the passage.
Third Reading: Text-Dependent Questioning
Now read the passage again, this time with the focus of reading to respond to the Key Ideas and Details interpretive questions. As your class discusses the text, write your responses to each question and highlight or underline the textual evidence that supports your answer. During discussions, you may also want to annotate the text to record a new or different meaning of the text.
Background Information: William Shakespeare wrote the play As You Like It as a comedy, although the character that delivers this monologue, Jacques, is a more serious, even grumpy character. He compares a person’s life to a play in this passage, and walks through the different ages of a person as if they were seven different acts, where the person is a different character in each.
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