You should now be familiar with strategies to help improve your reading skills before, during, and after reading. Now you will put all these skills together in one informative reading presentation. This assessment has two parts. Read all parts of the assessment, including the rubric, before beginning. When you have completed all parts of this assessment, submit it to your instructor for grading in the 03.08 Gist the Thing For You assessment. This assessment is worth 150 points. Imagine that a teacher asks you to share your story about improving your reading skills with sixth graders who are struggling with and frustrated by reading. The teacher hopes your story will inspire the students to try some of the strategies you know, helping them to become better readers. In your presentation, you will share information you learned in this path and provide examples of your own work. You may choose from a variety of formats such as a slide show or web blog; visit the Web 2.0 Tools area for ideas. You may choose how to organize your presentation, but be sure to include these items: Part I: Reading Strategies Create a picture or text outline of the reading process that shows pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading strategies Give an example of how reading can be important to a specific career choice Explain why reading faster helps you learn more Include at least one idea for how to read faster Part II: Examples from Your Article Add your Gist Statement for your article choice Include an image of the Notes:TM or Mind Map for your article choice Explain why you chose this particular article to read Explain how the author’s purpose and point of view aids understanding, using your article as an example Include a picture, chart, table, or graph from your article and an example of how visuals help you understand what you read You can also use this lesson as an opportunity to complete your required collaboration assessment in the course by working with other students to create a Gist Statement. You may find students

Multiple ! in this excerpt from act i, scene vi, of macbeth, duncan praises the atmosphere in the castle and the hospitality of his hostess. identify two reasons that these comments are ironic. duncan: this castle hath a pleasant seat: the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle sense. . . (enter lady macbeth.) duncan: see, see, our honour'd hostess! — the love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we as love. herein i teach you how you shall bid god ild us for your pains, and us for your trouble. he will meet his death in the castle, which he considers a pleasant place. his praise for inverness and his hostess, lady macbeth, is deceptive. duncan secretly plans to give macbeth's title to donalbain. the hostess he praises is actually plotting his murder.

Which of these events inspired many of stephen crane’s writings, including the story “an episode of war”?

Industrialization in europe changed the way people lived. the urban working class came into being, and with it came the drudgery of work. which two parts of this excerpt from franz kafka's the metamorphosis most closely reflect this impact of industrialization on people's lives? "what's happened to me? " he thought. it wasn't a dream. his room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. a collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table—samsa was a travelling salesman—and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. it showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. "how about if i sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense," he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. however hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. he must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. "oh, no", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that i've chosen! travelling day in and day out. doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. they can all go away! " he felt a slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. he slid back into his former position. "getting up early all the time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. you've got to get enough sleep. other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. for instance, whenever i go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts. i ought to just try that with my boss; i'd get kicked out on the spot. but who knows, maybe that would be the best thing for me. if i didn't have my parents to think about i'd have given in my notice a long time ago, i'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what i think, tell him everything i would, let him know just what i feel."