Review all the strategies for close reading in Chapter 2 of your textbook. Read the essay by Christopher Morely on page 64. Apply the close reading strategies to the "On Laziness" essay, and then list three basic ways readers could relate to the text (choose from text to self, text to itself, text to text, and text to society), citing four specific examples from the text to support your conclusion.

If the court issues an injunction against the school's rule, will the petitioning students be glad or upset?

Which excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich reflects the author's opinion that the members of the medical profession don't really care about their patients?

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action