Work individually. Think of your own reading experience and write a paragraph of 150 – 200 words. Use the following questions to guide you. 1. What books or texts did you read when you were in high school? 2. How did you read them? Did you read them all in similar ways? Did you use different ways of reading? If different, what were the ways? 3. Do you think your reading in the past was effective? Why or why not? 4. Do you think you will need to change the way you read for your university study? Explain.

Read the excerpt from pat mora’s essay "the leader in the mirror." i hoped that most of the students were going to enroll in college. the confetti would be for their private celebrations, those solitary moments when they had passed a test that worried them, finished a difficult paper at 2 a. m., found a summer internship. sometimes, even when no one else is around, it’s important to celebrate when we have struggled and succeeded—to sprinkle a little confetti on our own heads. what is the author’s purpose in using confetti as a symbol? the confetti represents celebration. the author uses confetti to encourage her audience to celebrate success. the confetti represents celebration. the author uses confetti to teach the students how to plan a celebration party. the confetti is a symbol of college graduation. the author uses the symbol to reward college graduates. the confetti is a symbol of summer internships. the author uses the symbol to encourage signing up for summer internships.

The goal of __ painters was not to make a photographic representation of a subject, but to capture the impression of a particular moment in time a) still artist b) realist c) impressionist

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)