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Create a drawing of how you can represent a contemporary art form based on the elements and principles.
in your words, discuss three different critical reading techniques you have read about in this course. In your discussion, show how these resonate with your experience of critical reading and/or the teaching of critical reading skills.
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8. What is the general mood of the text?
What is the author’s general attitude toward their topic? What details make you think so? How would this text make most people ‘feel’? What is the relationship between the tone, mood, and purpose?
9. What would you change?
Choose one important part of this text in which the author could’ve made a different choice—the structure, organization, purpose, audience, characterization, pacing, supporting details, mood, etc.—and then explain how they could’ve done it differently, and what effect it would’ve had on the reading.
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5. Who seems to be the audience?
Who wants or needs to know this information? Does there seem to be a specific audience the author is trying to reach? Why do you think so? If not, what makes you think there is not a specific audience?
6. What is the overall tone of the work?
What is the author’s general attitude towards their audience? How do the language, content, imagery, and allusions combine to give the reading a ‘feel,’ or tone? What details help you to understand this? What can you infer about the author’s position on important themes or issues because of that tone?
7. What point of view does the author write from?
What point of view was the book written from? What does the author seem to assume is true? Is the author biased in any way? Does the author seem to be aware of this bias? Might it have been done on purpose to further the theme? Is it satirical? Ironic?
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Guide Questions:
1. Compare and contrast this text or media with related text/media.
Be specific–what text or media? What are the similarities and dissimilarities, etc.
2. What did the author’s purpose seem to be?
What seemed to be the Author’s Purpose in creating this text? Why do you think they might’ve written it? What were they hoping this text would accomplish? Why do you think so?
3. What can you say about the theme?
What was the theme? What were some of the theme topics (love lost, overcoming adversity, civic responsibility, etc.)? What is the author’s overall message to their audience? Is there a sentence you can choose from the text that captures that? What supporting details allow you to make this inference?
4. What is the author’s position on any relevant theme or issue?
As a result of this reading, what can you infer is the author’s position on any relevant theme or issue? This will often be a social issue–poverty, love, war, courage, race, etc.
Explain why the verb "to be" is realised as "am" and were in the following sentences:
a)I am a student
b)we were tired
c)what is the grammatical concept that is used to explain the changes in the form of the verb "to be" in a) and b) above?
Discuss how the selection, "Dith Pran: A Story of Friendship mirror the heritage of Cambodia.
Write a 10 sentence-essay
Explain how theories sustainable economic development have influenced South Africa economic development?
Aside from the mitigation processes provided above, cite at least 5 more ways to prevent or lessen
the environmental impact that resulted from the exploitation, extraction, and use of mineral
resources.
Discuss the management of data and information for crime prevention purpose
