Activity In this activity, you’ll select either a fiction or nonfiction text to read independently. Before, during, and after you read, you’ll use comprehension strategies to monitor your understanding and annotate the text to show deeper understanding of the passage.

Part A
Take a look at the fiction text, “The Storyteller,” and the nonfiction text, “Was Einstein a Space Alien?” Select one text to read independently. Once you’ve selected a text, note the following:

the title of the text you selected
the reason, or purpose, you selected the text
a question you have about the text

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Part B
Annotate the text by competing each statement in the table.

As I read, a question I have is
A text-to-self connection I can make is
A text-to-text connection I can make is
A text-to-world connection I can make is
An inference I can make is
My inference is supported by this evidence from the text:
I used the comprehension strategy , which helped me
After reading the text, a question I have is

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

In writing, an idea map is a writing plan similar to: a)an outline. b)an illustration. c)a conclusion. d)a graphic.

Which of the following sentences requires a colon to be correct? a. in his vacation suitcase, jonathan packed two pairs of pants, four shirts, his swimsuit, and his favorite pajamas. b. when she decided to write a letter, she grabbed her pen, paper, stamps, and address book. c. the new dessert recipe called for equal parts of sugar, cream, peanut butter, and crushed pecans. d. she gathered all of her ingredients to make a smoothie strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and yogurt.