Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Reading
• Confirm or revise predictions made prior to reading a passage
• Draw conclusions and make inferences from a reading
• Identify author’s point of view in a reading
• Analyze fiction through identification of plot, character, setting, theme and use of figurative language
• Analyze non-fiction by recognizing rhetorical organization and types of support used in development
• Discussion
• Respond appropriately to questions about readings
• Clearly express an opinion relevant to the content of a passage
• Support views with reasons and evidence
• Extend and/or apply the ideas expressed in a reading
• Summarize passages
• Critical thinking
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning to come to logical conclusions about a reading
• Identify significant similarities and differences between readings
• Synthesize information to create new ideas and opinions
• Recognize one’s own biases and values and acknowledge the perspectives of others
• Study
• Find specific materials in the library and on-line