There are four skills that we will work on this quarter to help increase reading comprehension and reading memory.
You will find learn to discern the topic and, from knowing the topic, be able to state the author's main point--the thesis.
You will write summaries of paragraphs and essays, and will write paraphrases of key sentences. you will see that summary and paraphrase are two different things that have different purposes.
You will also take margin notes and make "annotations" on or about the pages you read.
To show that you have learned these things, you will do four separate assignments. See the menu items to find your exercises.