The Proficient Reader

I. Reading and Literacy 1. Frederick Douglass, "from The Life of an American Slave" Reading Strategy: Reading Narratives Reading Strategy Check: Cue Words Reading Strategy: Predicting Vocabulary 2. Helen Keller, "from The Story of My Life" Reading Strategy: Collecting Ideas Reading Strategy Check: Predicting Vocabulary Reading Strategy: Framing an Answer I 3. Sam Levinson, "from Everything But Money" Reading Strategy Check: Collecting Ideas Reading Strategy: Marking Text 4. Malcolm X, "from The Autobiography of Malcolm X" Reading Strategy: Connecting Ideas Reading Strategy Check: Marking Text Reading Strategy: Writing a Summary 5. Vince Nowell, "Why We Should Read" Reading Strategy: Reading Argument and Persuasion Reading Strategy Check: Writing a Summary 6. Ira D. Epstein and Ernest B. Nieratka, "The Proficient Reader" Reading Strategy: Reading Exposition--Part I Reading Strategy Check: Previewing 7. Geoffery Rubinstein, "History of Printing" Reading Strategy: Reading Exposition--Part II Reading Strategy Check: Making All the Strategies Work for You 8. Bernard Malamud, "A Summer's Reading" Making Connections: Reading and Literacy Library Assignment: The Week I Was Born II. Work and Careers 1. Barbara Garson, "McDonald's--We Do It All for You" Reading Strategy: Framing an Answer II Reading Strategy Check: Previewing 2. "So You Want to Be a Physician/Ophthalmologist" Reading Strategy: Reading Interviews Reading Strategy Check: Collecting Ideas 3. Anne W. Clymer and Elizabeth McGregor, "Solving the Job Puzzle" Reading Strategy: Summarizing Exposition Reading Strategy Check: Connecting Ideas 4. "Tomorrow's Jobs" Reading Strategy: Summarizing Exposition Reading Strategy Check: Connecting Ideas 5. Robert Lewis, "Looking for Work in All the Right Places" Reading Strategy: Evaluating Information on the Internet Reading Strategy Check: Framing and Answer 6. James Michener, "Work to Make the World Work Better" Reading Strategy: Evaluating Qualifications and Sources Reading Strategy Check: Reading Argumentation and Persuasion 7. Jan Halvorsen, "How It Feels to Be Out of Work" Reading Strategy: Determining the Author's Purpose Reading Strategy Check: Evaluating Sources 8. Anita Shreve, "The Day the Mommies Went Home" Reading Strategy: Reading Satire Reading Strategy Check: Marking Text 9. Ricky Griffin, "Managing Workforce Diversity in Organizations" Reading Strategy: Studying a Textbook Chapter and Preparing for an Exam Reading Strategy Check: Applying the Strategies 10. Barbara Holland, "The Day's Work" 11. William Bridges, "Change and Transformation of work" Making Connections: Work and Careers Library Assignment: Career Exploration III. Mass Media 1. Linda Ellerbee, "Television Changed My Family Forever" Reading Strategy Check: Reading Narratives 2. Tom Brokaw, "Only Good If You Can Trust It" Reading Strategy Check: Determining the Author's Purpose 3. Shirley Biagi, "Introduction to the Mass Media" Reading Strategy: Mapping Information Reading Strategy Check: Reading Textbook Chapters 4. Jim Trelease, "Television" Reading Strategy: Detecting and Evaluating Bias Reading Strategy Check: Marking Text 5. Jeff Greenfield, "Don't Blame TV" Reading Strategy: Reading Comparatively Reading Strategy Check: Summarizing 6. Kathleen Tyner, "Can Your Students Read TV?" Reading Strategy: Allusions Reading Strategy Check: Using Cue Words 7. Jeffrey Schrank, "The Language of Advertising Claims" Reading Strategy: Connotation and Denotation Reading Strategy Check: Allusions 8. Christine Lapham, "The Evolution of the Newspaper of the Future" Reading Strategy: Reading Journal Entries Reading Strategy Check: Putting It All Together 9. John Cheever, "from Bullet Park" 10. Joe Saltzman, "Too Much Information, Too Little Time" Making Connections: Mass Media Library Assignment: Exploring an Issue in Television IV. The Family 1. Jacquelyn Mitchard, "The New Traditional Family" 2. Ian Robertson, "Family" 3. Stephanie Coontz, "The Way We Weren't--The Myth and Reality of the 'Traditional' Family" 4. Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung, "The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home" 5. Dr. Benjamin Spock, "Put Family First" 6. Maya Angelou, "from Keeping Families Together: The Case for Family Preservation" 7. Barbara Kingsolver, "Quality Time" 8. Erma Bombeck, "Technology's Coming...Technology's Coming" Making Connections: The Family Library Assignment: The Family, Past and Present