Senior English Semester 1 Final

When given a text, give a purpose for reading the text, then teach students how to strategically read the text in a manner that helps them succeed at the purpose.

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The key to getting students to own close reading tasks is to make our classrooms places where reading, writing, and speaking about ideas and questions is standard procedure. 

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For example, it’s become commonplace to equate close reading with simply annotating a text, however, when annotation is used as a method for slowing down and working through a text attentively, it’s critical that students know the purpose for their reading and annotate accordingly.

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In other words, annotation serves an end in close reading—it is not an end in itself.

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Taking responsibility for your actions being taught to children since grade school.

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Taking responsibility for your actions being taught to children since grade school.

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For me, their is one primary mission in my classroom

every day: to increase my students chances for long-term flourishing.

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• me there

• me, there

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For me, their is one primary mission in my classroom

every day: to increase my students chances for long-term flourishing.

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• Students' chances

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• students chances'

My sister, who graduated from Michigan State, just accepted a job at a major pharmaceutical company.

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 When I speak to my teachers, I try to use a polite, deferential tone. 

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