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| Preface to the Instructor | |
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| Preface to the Student | |
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| Learning How to Be a Successful Student | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Scholar (1926) | |
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| Portrait of a Successful Student | |
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| Learning Styles | |
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| The Syllabus | |
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| Review of an Art History Syllabus | |
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| Review of Your Own Course Syllabus | |
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| Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Selection: Commencement Address | |
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| Vocabulary: Introduction | |
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| Optimism and Success | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Lucky Man: "A Wake Up Call" | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Understanding Psychology: "Critical Thinking-Uncommon Sense" | |
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| My Uncle Terwilliger on the Art of Eating Popovers | |
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| Life in College and Beyond | |
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| The Persistence of Memory (1931) | |
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| Portrait of a Successful Student (continued) | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Concepts in Health | |
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| Underlining, Highlighting, Annotating | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from The Art of Spelling | |
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| Critical Thinking and Problem Solving | |
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| Selection: Overcoming Dyslexia | |
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| Vocabulary: Words in Context | |
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| SQ3R Study Method | |
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| Find Your Procrastination Quotient | |
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| And One More Thing! | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from You Can Make it Happen: "Win by a Decision" | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Be Prepared | |
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| Discovering Meaning Through Structure | |
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| Topics, Main Ideas, and Details | |
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| Relativity (1953) | |
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| Topics and Main Ideas | |
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| Exercise: Locating Topics in Textbook Material | |
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| Exercise: Locating Main Ideas in Textbook Material | |
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| Exercise: Locating Supporting Details in Textbook Material | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Main and Supporting Ideas and Diagramming Paragraphs in Textbook Material | |
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| Selection: Black Men and Public Space | |
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| Selection: The Look of a Victim | |
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| Main Ideas and Details in Textbook Material | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Paraphrasing Quotations | |
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| Paraphrasing a Poem | |
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| Six Men of Indostan | |
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| Paraphrasing a Fable | |
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| The Cracked Pot | |
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| Islamic Folk Stories | |
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| Formulating Implied Main Ideas in Textbook Material | |
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| Exercise: Formulating Implied Main Ideas in Textbook Material | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Gilbert's Living with Art: "Public Art" | |
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| Summarizing Short Articles | |
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| Vocabulary: Homonyms and Other Confusing Words (Unit 1) | |
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| Homonym Quiz | |
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| Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Day of the Test | |
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| The Author's Purpose and the Rhetorical Modes | |
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| The Oath of the Horatii (1784) | |
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| Determining the Author's Purpose | |
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| Exercise: Determining the Author's Purpose | |
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| Exercise: Identifying the Clues That Indicate the Author's Purpose and Main Idea | |
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| An Introduction to the Rhetorical Modes | |
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| Author's Purpose: To Inform | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Understanding Psychology | |
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| Outlining | |
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| Author's Purpose: To Entertain | |
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| Selection: The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse | |
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| Author's Purpose: To Persuade | |
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| Crossings | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Interpreting Art: "Interpreting Out Loud" | |
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| Selection: Life On The Edge | |
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| Context Clue Practice Using Textbook Material | |
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| Vocabulary: Homonyms and Other Confusing Words (Unit 2) | |
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| Homonym Quiz | |
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| Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: After the Test Is Returned | |
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| Transition Words and Patterns of Organization | |
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| The Cardsharps (1594) | |
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| Transition Words | |
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| Exercise: Using Transition Words | |
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| Locus of Control | |
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| Some Common Patterns of Organization | |
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| Classification or Division | |
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| Lies, Lies, Lies | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Examples and Illustration | |
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| Comparison-Contrast | |
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| Creating a Comparison-Contrast Chart | |
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| Main Ideas, Details, Purpose, Patterns of Organization, Transitions | |
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| Crime at Its Best | |
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| Listing | |
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| And The Third Biggest Lie Is... | |
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| Steps in a Process | |
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| Definition | |
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| Burglary | |
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| Mapping | |
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| Chronological Order | |
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| Brancusi's Bird: Manufactured Metal or Work of Art | |
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| Time Lines | |
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| Identifying Patterns of Organization in Textbook Material | |
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| Selection: School Cheating Scandal Tests a Town's Values | |
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| Study Technique 8: Summarizing Longer Articles | |
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| Transition Words, Main Ideas and Supporting Details, and Vocabulary in Context | |
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| Excerpt from Gilbert's Living with Art: "Whose Grave Is This Anyway" | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Dealing with Test-Taking Anxiety | |
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| Interpreting What We Read | |
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| Inference | |
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| The Horse Fair (1853) | |
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| Introduction to Inference Skills | |
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| Barney | |
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| A Remote-Controlled Rat: Using Robotics, Researchers Give Upgrade to Lowly Rats; Study Sees Job for Rodents at Disaster Sites | |
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| Drawing Inferences from Textbook Material | |
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| Drawing Inferences from Literature | |
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| Selection: The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator | |
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| Drawing Inferences from Cartoons | |
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| The Wolf in Fables | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Wolf Songs: "George" | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Seabiscuit: "The Race of the Century" | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Living with Art: "Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)" | |
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| Test-Taking Tips: Creating Review Tools | |
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| Figurative Language | |
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| The Two Fridas (1939) | |
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| Types of Figurative Language | |
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| Identifying Similes, Metaphors, and Personification | |
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| Interpreting Figurative Language | |
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| Identifying and Interpreting Figurative Comparisons | |
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| Analyzing Figurative Language in Poetry | |
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| Symposium | |
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| The First Book | |
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| Selection: To Be of Use | |
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| Analyzing Figurative Language in Fiction | |
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| Excerpt from Caramelo: "Acapulco" | |
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| Analyzing Figurative Language In Nonfiction | |
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| Selection: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall | |
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| The Use of Symbols | |
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| Color Communication | |
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| Imagery | |
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| Analyzing Imagery | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: "Heaven and Earth in Jest" | |
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| Main Ideas and Supporting Details, Transition Words, Vocabulary in Context, and Imagery | |
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| Excerpt from Frida: "Accident and Aftermath" | |
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| Selection: From the Subway to the Streets | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Taking Multiple-Choice Tests | |
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| Tone | |
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| American Gothic (1930) | |
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| Inferring Tone | |
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| Identifying Tone | |
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| Identifying Tone in Textbook Material | |
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| Determining Tone in Literature | |
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| Exercise: Detecting Tone | |
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| Daughter's Friend Is a Boy | |
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| Irony and Satire | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Irony and Satire | |
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| Bodybuilders' Contest | |
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| Selection: Waiting in Life's Long Lines | |
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| Selection: The Art Breakers | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Taking Multiple-Choice Tests (continued) | |
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| Reading Critically | |
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| Fact and Opinion | |
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| Mona Lisa (1503) | |
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| Introduction to Fact and Opinion | |
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| Identifying Facts and Opinions | |
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| Identifying Facts and Opinions | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Introduction to Psychology: "Pseudopsychology-Astrology" | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Don't Know Much About the Universe: "What Does Astrology Have to Do with Astronomy?" | |
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| Selection: A Review of The Sixth Sense | |
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| Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Core Concepts in Health: "Herbal Remedies-Are They Safe?" | |
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| Selection: When Health Supplements May Do Harm | |
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| Selection: Are We Dying to Be Thin? | |
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| Evaluating Health News | |
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| The Facts About Health Information on the Internet | |
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| Supporting Details and Inference | |
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| Excerpt from Gilbert's Living with Art: "Vincenzo Perugia" | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1981-1983) | |
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| Introduction to Point of View | |
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| Identifying Point of View | |
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| Identifying an Author's Point of View in Textbook Material | |
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| Selection: Popular Mechanics | |
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| Selection: The Lady or the Tiger? | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from America Past and Present: "Surviving Vietnam" | |
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| Vietnam War Memorial: Multiple Points of View | |
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| What's In A Name | |
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| Vietnam Memorial War | |
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| What Happens When a Woman Designs a War Monument? | |
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| Vietnam Memorial | |
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| Boundaries | |
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| A Quiet Place for Personal Reflection | |
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| Bias | |
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| The Uprising (1848) | |
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| Introduction to Bias | |
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| Denotative and Connotative Language | |
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| Recognizing Connotative Meaning | |
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| Identifying Connotative Language | |
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| Using Connotative Language | |
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| Euphemism | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Euphemisms | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Teachers, Schools, and Society: "Seven Forms of Bias" | |
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| Selection: Textbook Bias Cops Ban Ideas: "Kids' Free Thought Loses to Sensitivity" | |
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| Excerpt from Teachers, Schools, and Society: "Where Do You Stand?" | |
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| Multiculturalism versus Core Curriculum | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Teachers, Schools, and Society: "Cultural Literacy or Cultural Imperialism?" | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from The Death of the West: "The New History" | |
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| Is the United States Going Test Crazy? | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Bias in Textbook Material | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Bias | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Mass Media Mass Culture: "Propaganda" | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Propaganda Devices | |
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| Analyzing and Evaluating Arguments | |
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| Trial by Jury (1964) | |
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| Identifying Arguments | |
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| Evaluating Arguments | |
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| An Introduction to Logical Fallacies | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Logical Fallacies | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Arguments | |
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| Our Heritage: Legal and Political | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from John Adams: "Jefferson, Adams, and the Declaration of Independence" | |
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| Venn Diagram | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Benjamin Franklin: An American Life: "Benjamin Franklin-Declaring Independence" | |
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| Annotating-An Example: The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from The Majesty of the Law: "The Evolution of the Bill of Rights" | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| Five Tests of Your Freedoms The USA Weekend First Amendment Center Poll | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Key Words That Often Appear in Essay Questions | |
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| Evaluating the Evidence | |
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| The Thinker (1880) | |
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| Evaluating Persuasive Writing | |
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| Characteristics of the Audience | |
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| Outlining | |
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| Introduction to Deductive and Inductive Reasoning | |
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| Exercise: Identifying Inductive and Deductive Arguments | |
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| Death and Dying | |
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| Selection: Dreaming of Disconnecting a Respirator | |
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| Selection: The Good Death: Embracing a Right to Die Well | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Core Concepts in Health: "El Dia de los Muertos-The Day of the Dead" | |
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| Animal Rights | |
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| Selection: Excerpt from Animal Experimentation Raises Ethical Questions | |
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| Selection: The Monkey Wars | |
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| Selection: An excerpt from Ddminion | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Key Words That Often Appear in Essay Questions (Continued) | |
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| Study Skills | |
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| Organizing Textbook Information | |
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| Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin (1995) | |
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| Studying Textbook Chapters | |
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| Skimming | |
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| Scanning | |
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| Annotating | |
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| Outlining | |
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| Mapping | |
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| Comparison-Contrast Chart | |
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| Venn Diagram | |
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| Selection: Chapter 13 The Arts | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Preparing for Standardized Tests | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Vocabulary Units | |
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| Test-Taking Tip: Taking Standardized Tests | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Visual Aids | |
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| Using a Thesaurus | |
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| Spelling Tips | |
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| Sample Summary | |
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| Vocabulary Word Parts | |
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| Internet Site Evaluation Sheet | |