Informative Text The Big Question for this unit is "What is important to know?" Think about how you would complete the following sentence:

We should spend more time learning and less time learning because .

Develop your response in a comparison-and-contrast essay in which you explain why some things are important to learn about and some things are not. Support your ideas with clear reasons and evidence from your experience. Use transitional words that show clear comparisons and contrasts. Finally, sum up your most important ideas in a concluding statement that follows logically from your argument. Do essay

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt? forgetting = a divine gift forgetting = danger remembering = ability to learn remembering = a divine gift

In a group discussion, which statement most clearly uses evidence to support a conclusion? a) the author makes some good points, but i feel that he’s ultimately biased. b) the author proves that he’s biased when he uses terms like “silly” and “stupid”. c) the author obviously hates the way fast food tastes, which is why he’s negative. d) the author first criticizes fast food, and then goes in to criticize junk food.

Do you think that the american culture has defined what “normal” is and so our perception of chris mccandless is skewed based on that?