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Check your Understanding
Now that you have read closely and worked to understand challenging portions of these passages, choose a sentence that you think is important to understanding each text. Explain in your own words what the sentence means and why it is important to understanding the text.
Synthesizing your Understanding
Now that you have read the passages three times and studied the 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 tone or attitude. Respond to the following questions as a way of bringing all your knowledge together.
1. Who is the speaker of the text—the person (or persons) writing it? What is his or her background with the subject? How does this person’s background or position impact the way the text is written?
2. What is the subject of the text—the general topic and main ideas? Be as specific as you can in identifying and summarizing the subject of each passage.
3. What is the purpose of the passage? What is the reason behind the creation of this piece of writing? What do you suppose the writer wants the audience to think or do as a result of reading the text?
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