Studentsareaskedtoidentifythemainideaorsummarizetheoverallcontentofthepassage Mainidea/summaryquestions 01 Studentsneedtohaveabasicunderstandingofthetopicandcontentofthereadingpassageinordertoeffectivelyanswerthequestions Familiaritywiththetext 02 Studentsneedtoreadthemessagecarefullyandanalyzetheinformationpresented,noting...
(136 quotes) ‘I was reading an article about “Mathematics”. Perfectly pure mathematics. My own knowledge of mathematics stops at “twelve times twelve,” but I enjoyed that article immensely. I didn’t understand a word of it; but facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are ...
Leanne my wife has been performing puppet shows in pre-schools and kindergarten centres for many years, on and off. We have spoken often of a show that would be aimed at older students or adults, using my voice to read the poetry of the show, while Leanne performed with the puppets. Th...
fewer and fewer people say that they visit art museums and galleries, go to see plays or attend classical music concerts, opera or ballet. College students are fleeing the humanities for the computer sciences
(C.S. Lewis's advice to his students, quoted by Alastair Fowler in "C.S. Lewis: Supervisor."The Yale Review, October 2003) "Readingis sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." (Sir Arthur Helps,Friends in Council, 1847) ...
This may sound a little unusual for an after-dinner talk like this — after all, you’re not students at college, for instance — but while I am speaking this evening, I would like you all to take notes. I have provided you with paper and pencils. And when I have said what I ...
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“It’s also why we need poems, I think: they exist in a different relationship to attention and to time; it’s impossible for harried students worrying about their exams, for harried readers checking their phones, to see and feel what’s happening in them. Whole strata of reality are ...
and both she and I brought very different interpretations to the text. Some of the differences for both excerpts were: some students “heard” sounds such as the whistle of the bomb or the eerie silence after the gas did its work. Some students did not hear them. One student thought about...