Articles & Stories
- "Evolving English"
- "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgment"
- "Lamb to the Slaughter"
- "Birmingham Bombing"
- AW8: "Ethnic and Racial Diversity"
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Review questions
- What is the main idea of each article, story, chapter? What other important ideas are there?
- How does the author support his or her main idea?
- What do you think about the ideas? To what extent do you agree, disagree, or partly agree? Why?
- How does the author's message apply to other situations?
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About Reading from Lectures
- Efficient Reading (Reading for speed)
- Analytical Reasoning (being a good reader/thinker)
- Review your notes and what we talked about in class. Think about how to explain and apply the ideas that were introduced via PowerPoint using your own examples.
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Review Questions
- How can you describe your English reading speed?
- How does your reading speed change in different environments and with different kinds of reading?
- What are some ways to improve reading speed?
- Which ideas about efficient reading are more/less appropriate for you?
- What does it mean to be a good thinker?
- What is "one-shot thinking" and why is it a problem?
- How can you improve your anylitical thinking while reading?
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| The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 |
- Who is Kenny and what is he like?
- How does having Kenny as the narrator influence the way you read the story?
- Who are Kenny's family members? What are they like? Why do the act the way they do?
- What ideas about bullying does this story suggest?
- How do Byron and Kenny swap roles when they are in Birmingham?
- What happened during the church bombing? How was Kenny involved?
- What is the Wool Pooh?
- How does the family change after the bombing?
- What gives this story a hopeful conclusion?
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