Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Read and React 5 replicates Read and React 4 and is distinguished by longer readings, increased quantity of reading, more complex readings, and a more advanced research component.
• Reading outcomes
• 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, style, tone and language
• Analyze non-fiction by recognizing rhetorical organization, types of support, style, tone and language
• Discussion and critical thinking outcomes
• Respond appropriately to questions about readings
• 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 to other situations
• Summarize and paraphrase a reading
• Identify significant similarities and differences between situations, characters, and outcomes
• Synthesize information to create ideas and opinions
• Recognize one’s own biases and values and acknowledge the perspectives of others
• Use evidence and logic to question and analyze information
• Study skills
• Find specific materials in the library and on-line
• Evaluate the quality of internet resources for authority, objectivity, accuracy, currency
• Cite sources using an MLA format