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Close Reading of shakespeare (continued)
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Check your Understanding
Now that you have read closely and worked to understand the challenging portions of this passage, choose a sentence that you think is critical to understanding Viola’s situation. Explain in your own words what the sentence means and why it is important to your understanding of the passage.
Synthesizing your Understanding
Now that you have read the passage three times and studied its vocabulary
and sentences, work with your classmates and your teacher to synthesize your understanding by thinking about the speaker, the subject, the purpose, and the speaker’s attitude. Respond to the following questions as a way of bringing all your knowledge together.
1. Who is the speaker and what is the subject of the passage? What is the speaker’s perspective on the subject? What experiences or beliefs contribute to her point of view?
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