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Each unit begins with Objectives/Skills to Learn and concludes with a Unit Review | |
Each chapter contains Applying Your Skills and concludes with a Chapter Review | |
Becoming A Successful Student | |
Raising Issues: Setting Your Goals and Reaching Them | |
Reading: I Can't Accept Not Trying | |
Getting Started | |
Reading: Positive Self Esteem | |
Managing Your Time | |
Short and Long Term Goals | |
Reading: Think Big, Benjamin Carson, M.D | |
Preparing to Read | |
Joining the Academic Community/Becoming an Active Reader | |
Reading: A Reading Autobiography, Maxine Hong Kingston | |
Reading is a Process: Pro | |
Reading: The Essence of Active Reading | |
Reading: Some Reflections on Reading | |
Reading: Learning to Read (Exercise) | |
Reading: Effective Speaking and Listening | |
Reading: Journeys of Achievement and Vision | |
Learning and Education/ Main Ideas | |
Raising Issues: Learning to Learn | |
Reading: Building a Better Brain | |
Learning and Expectations/Topics and Main Ideas | |
Topics vs. Main Ideas | |
Stated Main Ideas | |
Stated Main Ideas in Longer Paragraphs | |
Stated Main Ideas in Short Essays | |
Reading: Active | |
Participation | |
Reading: Broaden Your Perspective | |
Reading: In Praise of the F Word | |
Problems and Solutions/Unstated Main Ideas | |
Identifying Unstated Main Ideas | |
Reading: Participating in Small Groups | |
Unstated Main Ideas in Longer Passages | |
Reading: The Most Important Day | |
Reading: A Third of The Nation Cannot Read These Words | |
Reading: The Best Teacher In America | |
Reading: Blowing Up the Tracks | |
Reading: The Education of Bernice Belizare | |
Protecting Our Environment/Supporting Details | |
Raising Issues | |
Reading: Exposure to Chemicals and Human Fertility | |
Our Environment, Our Future/Main Ideas and Supporting Details | |
Recognizing Supporting Points | |
Recognizing Supporting Details | |
Reading: Pesticides | |
Reading: Toxins in Our Backyards | |
Reading: Toxic Metals, Dioxins, and PCBs | |
Protecting Our Environment/ Major and Minor Supporting Details | |
Using an Outline | |
Writing a Summary | |
Reading: Changing the Balance of Life in The Water | |
Reading: An Assessment of Risks | |
Reading: How Species Become Extinct | |
Reading: The Garbage Crisis | |
Our Changing Families/ Patterns of Organization | |
Raising Issues: What is a Family? | |
Reading: My Husband's Nine Wives | |
Families in History and Around the World/Examples | |
Chronological Order, and Definitions | |
Examples | |
Chronological Order | |
Definitions | |
Patterns of Organization in Longer Passages | |
Reading: Housework in Victorian America | |
Reading: Marriage and Family: An Overview | |
The Family in The Community/Comparison/Contrast and Cause/Effect.Comparing/Contrasting | |
Reading: It Takes a Village | |
Cause and Effect | |
Reading: The Single-Parent Family | |
Reading: Reform Should Make Room for Dad | |
Reading: What Good Families Are Doing Right | |
Our Community and Workplace/Inferences and Facts Versesopinions | |
Raising Issues: Living in Communities | |
Reading: Planting Seeds, Harvesting Scholarships | |
Growing Up In Neighborhoods/Inferences | |
Recognizing Inferences in Visual Images | |
Inferences in Longer Passages | |
Reading: Codes of Conduct | |
Reading: Codes of Conduct (Cont) | |
Reading: Beacon Schools: A Model For Community Development | |
Work and the Community/ Facts vs. Opinions | |
Recognizing Facts and Opinions | |
Reading: How to Get an Internship | |
Reading: The Power of Popular Music | |
Reading: Gender Inequality: Employment | |
Drawing | |
Conclusions | |
Reviewing Your Skills | |
Reading: Firms Helping to Prepare Students for Working World | |
Reading: Careers for the 21st Century | |
Reading: Houses from Scratch | |
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