Wadsworth Site for Practice Quizzees

Click on the Quizzes link to go to the reading quizzes website.

Imagine

Imagine that you are the director of a movie . . . Click on the link for an overview of literary analysis!

Shawshank or Chocolate

Click here to view the Final Project assignment.

Thinking about Thinking: Reflection on Prison History Workbook

Look back at the work you did in the Prison History workbook. Think about your thinking:

• How did the workbook force you to read?
• How was your reading similar to or different from the way you usually read?
  

You can either respond to these questions in your own blog and post your response there, or email it to me at mondayreading@gmail.com.

You Took Away the Oceans

This poem was written by Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet dissident who spent the last years of his life in a Soviet concentration camp. What does this poem mean?


You took away the oceans and all the room.
You gave me my shoe size with bars around it.
But where did that get you? Nowhere.
You left me my lips and they form words, even in silence.


What metaphors do you see in the poem?
Put them into your own words.

Check dictionary.com: What does dissident mean?
Check wikipedia.com: Find out two more facts about Osip Mandelstam.

You can either copy this assignment into your own blog and post your response there, or email it to me at mondayreading@gmail.com.

Introduction to The Mystery of Evidence

This class is designed to --

• introduce you to college reading and
  
• prepare you for the ACT exit test.

In order to accomplish those goals, we will focus on the concept of evidence --

• in ACT practice passages,
• in textbook chapters,
• in autobiographical narratives, and
• in mystery stories.

And by the time we get done, maybe evidence won't be a mystery any more after all.