1. Week 4 RDG081

2. Quotes  A home without books is a body without soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC ) A home without books is a body without soul.Ancient RomanLawyer WriterScholarOratorStatesman106 BC43 BC A home without books is a body without soul.Ancient RomanLawyer WriterScholarOratorStatesman106 BC43 BC  You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury (American science- fiction short stories and novels writer,1920) You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.American You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.American

3. 6 min. solution  New readings….  http://www.timeme.com/timer- stopwatch.htm http://www.timeme.com/timer- stopwatch.htm http://www.timeme.com/timer- stopwatch.htm

4. Main Idea  General vs specific: General terms and specific terms are not opposites, as abstract and concrete terms are; instead, they are the different ends of a range of terms. General terms refer to a group; specific terms refer to individual

5. Main Idea Continued  Furniture is a general term; it includes within it many different items. If I ask you to form an image of furniture, it won't be easy to do. Do you see a department store display room? a dining room? an office? Even if you can produce a distinct image in your mind, how likely is it that another reader will form a very similar image? Furniture is a concrete term (it refers to something we can see and feel), but its meaning is still hard to pin down, because the group is so large.  We can make the group smaller with the less general term, chair.  And even more and more specific to: a lime green velvet La-Z-Boy rocker recliner. Note how easy it is to visualize this chair, and how much attitude we can form about it.

6. Practice  A paragraph is a group of sentences that.docx A paragraph is a group of sentences that.docx A paragraph is a group of sentences that.docx

7. Article  How High school is different than college. Or  Critical Reading

8. Partners  Origin of our Universe.doc Origin of our Universe.doc Origin of our Universe.doc

9. Individual Practice

10. ESL Practice  http://home.earthlink.net/~eslstudent/read/ readdo2.html http://home.earthlink.net/~eslstudent/read/ readdo2.html http://home.earthlink.net/~eslstudent/read/ readdo2.html