Reading and All That Jazz : Tuning up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills

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Part 1: Getting A Handle on College

Introduction: Your First Week In Class

Assignment Sheets

Are You Ready for College?

This Is the Week That Was

Selection: excerpt from My American Journey by Colin Powell

Selection: Ode to the Present by Pablo Neruda

Vocabulary: Introduction

Selection: Crickets by Robert Olen Butler

Chapter 1: How We Learn - Finding Out About Ourselves

Auditory, Visual, or Kinesthetic - What is Your Learning Style?

Vocabulary: Words in Context

Day versus Night People

Selection: The Two Most Dangerous Hours of Your Day by Lowell Ponte

Left-Brain and Right-Brain Orientation - Which One Are You?

Selection: What Is Intelligence, Anyway? by Isaac Asimov

Stress Inventory: How Much Stress is There in Your Life?

Selection: An Easy Choice by Rick Reilly

Study Schedules

SQ3R - A Classic Way to Study

**Selection: POWER Learning (study skills textbook) by Robert S. Feldman

Vocabulary: Homonyms and Other Confusing Words

Part 2: Discovering Meaning Through Structure

Chapter 2: Topics, Main Ideas, and Details

Using Textbook Material

**Description of Topics and Main Ideas

Distinguishing Between General and Specific

Locating Topics and Main Ideas

Paragraph Diagrams

Paraphrasing

Implied Main Ideas

**Aunt Caroline

**Urban Legends

Selection: What Women Don't Understand About Guys by Dave Barry

Selection: This is 911...Please Hold

Chapter 3: Determining the Author's Purpose

To Entertain

Selection: The Shepherd's Daughter by William Saroyan

To Inform

Selection: From a Melted Candy Bar to Microwaves by Ira Flatow

To Persuade

Selection: Students Who Push Burgers by Wlater Minot

Writing Summaries

**Selection: Letter to Olivia by Mel Allen

Vocabulary: Word Structure and Unit 1

Chapter 4: Transitions and Patterns of Organization

Transition Word List

Description of Transition Words and Patterns of Organization

Classification Pattern

Cause and Effect Pattern

Compare/Contrast Pattern

Steps in a Process Pattern

Examples Pattern

Definition Pattern

Chronological Order Pattern

**Listing Pattern

Additional Transition Words

Selection: Police Power in Japan (from sociology textbook) by Robert T. Shaefer and Robert P. Lamm

**Selection: Out of Control by William Nack and Lester Munson

Part 3: Interpreting What We Read

Chapter 5: Inferences

Introduction and exercises

Selection: Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

Selection: Inside the Vicious Heart (from history textbook)

**Selection: Thomas Broderick by Tom Brokaw

Chapter 5 Test: "Inside the Vicious Heart"

Vocabulary: Unit 2

Chapter 6: Figurative Language

Figures of Speech - similes, metaphors, and personification

**Selection: Ann Landers

The Use of Symbols

Selection: Guernica (Art History textbook) by Rita Gilbert

Selection: The Yellow Ribbon by Pete Hamill

Literary Allusions

Imagery

**Selection: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Selection: Blizzard Under Blue Sky by Pam Houston

Chapter 7: Tone

Inferring tone

Selection: The Fixed by Annie Dillard

Irony

Selection: A Letter to God by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes

Satire

Selection: The Animal School by Dr. George H. Reavis

**Selection: Hurts Rent-A-Gun by Art Buchwald

Vocabulary: Unit 3

Part 4: Recognizing Modes of Writing

Chapter 8: Four Primary Modes

An Introduction to Modes of Writing (Rhetorical Modes)

Narrative

Selection: "Thank You Ma'm" by Langston Hughes

Descriptive

Selection: A Son's Memoir by John Daniel

**Selection: On Aging by Maya Angelou

Expository

Selection: Impulse Control: The Marshmallow Test, an excerpt from Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Persuasion Argumentation

Selection: TV by Mary Pipher

Vocabulary: Unit 4

Chapter 9: Modes of Organization

Cause and Effect

Selection: The Chaser by John Collier

Categories

Selection: My Possessions Myself by Russell W. Belk

Chronological Order and Summaries of Longer Articles

Order and Summaries of Longer Articles

Selection: Charley's Secret by Shannon Moon Leonetti

Part 5: Reading Critically

Chapter 10: Fact and Opinion

Learning to Read Critically

Selection: Listening: To Tell Fact from Opinion (English textbook) by Shirley Haley-James and John Warren Stewig

Selection: Truth is More than Skin Deep (from psychology textbook)

**Selection: Superstitions Help Us Cope by Patricia Wen

Vocabulary: Unit 5

Chapter 11: Bias

Selection: The Defendant's Characteristics (from Social Psychology textbook) by David G. Myers

Selection: How Do I Fire Thee? Let Me Count the Ways by William Lutz

Techniques and exercises

**Selection: A Birthday Party by Katherine Brush

Selection: A Hanging by George Orwell

**Selection: A Speech by President George W. Bush

Vocabulary: Unit 6

Chapter 12: Propaganda Techniques

What Are They and How Are They Used?

**Selection: (Communication textbook) - Celebrity Endorsements Can Mean a Lot for Advertisers by James R. Wilson

Selection: (Psychology textbook) - Violence on Television and Film: Does the Media's Message Matter

Chapter 13: Evaluating the Evidence

Evaluating Persuasive Writing

Drawing Conclusions: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

Selection: (Biology textbook) DNA Fingerprinting by Ruth Bernstein and Stephen Bernstein

**Arguments For and Against Proposition

**Andrea Yates--The Yates Tragedy

Part 6: Becoming Ready for Content Area Classes

Chapter 14: Scanning and Skimming

Scanning exercises

Selection: Pesticides (Biology textbook) by Eli C. Minkoff and Pamela J. Baker

Skimming exercises

Selection: The Greening of Java (from anthropology textbook) by Conrad Phillip Kottak

Vocabulary: Word Parts and Review

Chapter 15: Organizing Textbook Information

Organizing Textbook Materials in Different Ways

Annotating Your Textbook

Outlining

Mapping

Time Lines

Compare-and-Contrast Chart

**Venn Diagram

Selection: Jazz (from music textbook) by Roger Kamien

Appendices

Dictionaries

**Visual Aids

Test-Taking Techniques

The Multiple Choice Test

Essay Tests

Extra Assignment and Study Sheets

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