Working with Vocabulary
Exercises & AssignmentsVocabulary in context: Can you speak Australian?
Text: read p. 17-26. Complete Mastery Test 3, p. 35.
Class Exercise: Reading Comprehension Practice Questions.
Read "Memory Encoding" and "Short and Long Term Memory" sections of online article
Class Exercise: Writing Complete Definitions. Complete #1-3 for Monday, 1/11.
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Learn MoreOnline practice: Using Context Clues (Longman)
Online practice: Using context clues (TV411)
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Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Exercises & AssignmentsClass Exercise: Main Idea Packet
Class Exercise: Adult Children At Home
Article: Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory
Class Exercise: Questions for "Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory"
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Learn MoreStudy guide: Main Ideas & Supporting Details (Univ of Hawaii)
Online practice: Main Ideas & Supporting Details (Quia)
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Relationships (Patterns of Organization)
Exercises & AssignmentsChart: Relationship Patterns
Class Exercise: Sentence Patterns (Def/Ex, Comp, Cont)
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Learn MoreOnline practice: Paragraph patterns (LF)
Online practice: Patterns of Organization (LF)
Online practice: Patterns of Organization (Dalton St)
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Inference
Exercises & AssignmentsClass Exercise: Making Inferences From Graphs
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Learn MoreOnline practice: Inferences and Main Ideas (TV411)
Online practice: Inferences (SHSU)
Online practice: Making Inferences (Langan)
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Purpose & Tone
Exercises & AssignmentsClass Exercise: Determining Tone
Class Exercise: Tone and Mood
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Learn MoreYouTube Video: Author's Purpose
YouTube Video: Mood and Tone
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Argument & Critical Reading
Exercises & AssignmentsHandout: Writing an Opinion Essay
Class Activity: Analyzing Arguments
Class Activity: Sentence ReWrite Practice
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Learn MoreYouTube: Logical Fallacies in Commercials
Slideshow: An Introduction to Persuasion and Argument
Slideshow: How to Write an Introduction
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Grammar Practice
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Learn MoreOnline practice: Grammar and Punctuation (TV411)
Online practice: Grammar Bytes Exercises
Study Guides: Grammar Bytes Rules
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