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1. One element of the pre-text out of which an author writes is his or her particular life experience. Are there personal experiences or elements in the article you read? What are they? (note page(s) they appear on)

She bring in the element of playing soccer from her pre-text of how practicing helped improved her math muscles

2. Choose one sentence from the article that you think represents what the author most wants to say. Quote it, placing it in quotation marks and noting the page number in parenthesis. Then paraphrase this sentence, putting it in your own words.

“Math allows you to trust your own judgment’ Paragraph 1 Page 99’

a. N.B.: Be ready to defend your choice in class.

3. Often authors will use central images or short stories to help the reader think about their theme. In the Introduction the author spoke of the visit from outer space. Another example from chapter one is The Big Shaggy. If the article has a central image or story, explain what this metaphor is meant to say about your education.

Math is like a house.

4. One good way to engage a reading is to “converse” with it. A specific way to do that might be to write a brief statement that relates your life to the subject of the article. Or, to create a quick doodle that helps you understand and describe to others how the article resonates with you.

When he discuss how students often think they are bad at math, and discuss how we are supposed to train our math muscle.

5. After reading the whole chapter, can you show one way that things you noted about who the author is has shaped the argument she is making in this chapter? What connections between her personal pre-text and text can you make?

Thoughts about pre-text and text:

• “While in our case a text will mostly be a written or visual text, a text is any human experience: an event such as a visit from a friend, a movie,