Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How We Learn - Finding Out About Ourselves
Auditory, Visual, or Kinesthetic - What is Your Learning Style?
Selection: The Two Most Dangerous Hours of Your Day by Lowell Ponte
Selection: What Is Intelligence, Anyway? by Isaac Asimov
Stress Inventory: How Much Stress is There in Your Life?
Selection: An Easy Choice by Rick Reilly
Study Schedules
Selection: Students Who Push Burgers by Walter Minot
SQ3R - A Classic Way to Study
Vocabulary: Homonyms and Other Confusing Words

Part 2: Discovering Meaning Through Structure
Chapter 2: Topics, Main Ideas, and Details
Description of Topics and Main Ideas
Selection: What Women Don't Understand About Guys by Dave Barry
Review Test 2: A review of main ideas, "The Look of a Victim"
Selection: This is 911...Please Hold
Chapter 2 Test
Vocabulary: Word Structure and Unit 1
Chapter 3: Determining the Author's Purpose
To Entertain
Selection: The Shepherd's Daughter by William Saroyan
To Inform or Explain
Selection: From a Melted Candy Bar to Microwaves by Ira Flatow
To Persuade
Selection: Abraham Lincoln Denies a Loan
Selection: A Conversation with Diana Spatz '95 by Catherine Maclay
Chapter 3 Test: "A Conversation with Diana Spatz '95"
Review Test 3: Topics, main ideas, details, and author's purpose
Vocabulary: Unit 2
Chapter 4: Transitions and Patterns of Organization
Additional Transition Words
Selection: Police Power in Japan (from sociology textbook)
Review Test 4: Main idea, details, purpose, transitions, and patterns of organization
Chapter 4 Test: "The Little Artifact That Could"
Writing Summaries and Sample Student Summary

Part 3: Interpreting What We Read
Chapter 5: Inferences
Introduction and exercises
Review Test 4: Inferences, Too Much of a Good Thing by Geoffrey Cowley
Selection: Altitude Sickness, From Bad to Worse by Katie Arnold
Selection: Guernica (from art history textbook)
Selection: Inside the Vicious Heart (from history textbook)
Chapter 5 Test: "Inside the Vicious Heart"
Chapter 6: Figurative Language
Figures of Speech - similes, metaphors, and personification
Selection: Car Buying Turns Men Into Big Game Hunters
The Use of Symbols
Selection: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Selection: Thunderbolts, an excerpt from The Winner Within by Pat Riley
Selection: The Yellow Ribbon by Pete Hamill
Review Test 5: "The Yellow Ribbon"
Allegory
Literary Illusions
Imagery
Selection: excerpt from L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton
Selection: Blizzard Under Blue Sky by Pam Houston -
Chapter 6 Test: "Blizzard Under Blue Sky"
Vocabulary: Unit 3
Chapter 7: Tone
Inferring tone
Selection: Daughter's Friend is a Boy by Art Buchwald
Humor
Selection: an excerpt from Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Review Test 6: Figurative language, "The Fixed"
Selection: The Fixed by Annie Dillard
Irony
Selection: War is Kind by Stephen Crane
Selection: A Letter to God by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes
Satire
Selection: The Animal School by Dr. George H. Reavis
Selection: When You Hear the Beep by Art Buchwald
Chapter 7 Test: "When You Hear the Beep"
Vocabulary: Unit 4

Part 4: Recognizing Modes of Writing
Chapter 8: Four Primary Modes
An Introduction to Modes of Writing (Rhetorical Modes)
Narrative
Selection: "Thank You Ma'm" by Langston Hughes
Descriptive
Selection: A Son's Memoir by John Daniel
Expository
Selection: Impulse Control: The Marshmallow Test, an excerpt from Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Persuasion Argumentation
Selection: TV by Mary Pipher
Chapter 8 Test: "TV"
Vocabulary: Unit 5
Chapter 9: Modes of Organization
Cause and Effect
Selection: The Chaser by John Collier
Categories
Selection: My Possessions Myself by Russell W. Belk
Order and Summaries of Longer Articles
Selection: Charley's Secret by Shannon Moon Leonetti
Chronological
Summaries of Longer Articles
Selection: Charley's Secret by Shannon Moon Leonetti
Chapter 9 Test: "Charley's Secret"
Review Test 7: Recognizing Modes of Writing

Part 5: Reading Critically
Chapter 10:Fact and Opinion
Learning to Read Critically
Selection: Listening: To Tell Fact from Opinion by Shirley Haley-James and John Warren Stewig
Selection: Truth is More than Skin Deep (from psychology textbook)
Chapter 10 Test: "Truth is More than Skin Deep"
Vocabulary: Unit 6
Chapter 11: Bias
Selection: an excerpt from Social Psychology, "How Do I Fire Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" by William Lutz
Selection: Home Is Where the Heart Is by Bob Greene
Selection: A Hanging by George Orwell
Review Test 11: "A Hanging"
Review Test 8: Author's Bias
Chapter 12: Propaganda Techniques
Techniques and exercises
Review Test 9: Propaganda techniques
Selection: Violence on Television and Film: Does the Media's Message Matter (from psychology textbook)
Selections: Arguments for and Against Proposition 200 (California)
Selection: This is Smart Medicine by Marcus Conant
Selection: We're on a Perilous Path by Barry R. McCaffrey
Chapter 12 Test: "We're on a Perilous Path"
Vocabulary: Unit 7
Chapter 13: Evaluating the Evidence
Evaluating Persuasive Writing
Drawing Conclusions: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Selection: DNA Fingerprinting by Ruth Bernstein and Stephen Bernstein
Paired selections related to dying
Selection: Dreaming of Disconnecting the Respirator by Elissa Ely
Selection: The Good Death: Embracing a Right to Die by Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Paired selections related to animal experimentation
Selection: Animal Experimentation Raises Ethical Questions (from biology textbook) - Selection: The Monkey Wars by Deborah Blum

Part 6: Becoming Ready for Content Area Classes
Chapter 14: Scanning and Skimming
Scanning exercises
Selection: Pesticides (from biology textbook)
Skimming exercises
Selection: The Greening of Java (from anthropology textbook)
Review Test 11: Scanning and skimming
Chapter 14 Test: "The Greening of Java"
Vocabulary: Word Parts and Review
Chapter 15: Organizing Textbook Information and Test Taking Strategies
Organizing Textbook Materials in Different Ways
Annotating Your Textbook
Outlining
Mapping
Compare-and-Contrast Chart
Time Lines
Selection: Jazz (from music textbook)
Chapter 15 Test: [Jazz 7] "Jazz Styles Since 1950"
Appendices
Dictionaries
Visual Aids
Test-Taking Techniques
The Multiple Choice Test
Essay Tests
Extra Assignment and Study Sheets