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Reading Module #1
On Your Own

This activity in Reading Module 1 gives you two reading passages to practice applying the Active Reading Strategies you have learned.

Directions: Complete the activity by reading each passage and answering the questions. Do not forget to spell check and proofread your work. When you have completed this activity, please upload it to the Dropbox for this week.

Reading #1: The Body’s Response to Stress

Whenever we are surprised by a sudden stressor, such as someone swerving into our lane of traffic, the adrenal glands jump into action.

Using the Predicting Strategy | Read the title and first sentence above. Now predict what you think the passage will be about. | Your prediction about the passage:its say about the health and breathing problem rate like over population .its should be more dangerous become a day |

Now read the whole paragraph.

The Body’s Response to Stress

Whenever we are surprised by a sudden stressor, such as someone swerving into our lane of traffic, the adrenal glands jump into action. These two almond-shaped glands sit above the kidneys. They secrete adrenaline as well as other hormones into the bloodstream. As a result, the heart speeds up, breathing rate increases, blood pressure elevates, and the flow of blood to the muscles increases. It is believed that this sudden burst of energy and strength has helped generations of humans survive during adversity. This response is also believed to be one of our most basic survival instincts. It is known as the flight or fight response. This response prepares the body to combat a real or perceived threat. It is a point at which our bodies go on the alert to either fight or escape.

[Adapted from Donatelle, Health: the Basics, 5th ed., p.54 (in Henry, The Effective Reader, 2004; p. 155)]

Using the Questioning Strategy | As you read the paragraph: 1. Do you find any details confusing, or that you wonder about? 2. Are there words you don’t know? Which words are unfamiliar? 3. What questions do you have about any confusing sentences? | Your questions about the passage:I am wonder about sudden stressor . bloodstream this world unfamiliar to me . In this passage I did not realize this sentence This response is also believed to be one of our most basic survival instincts |

Using the Making Connections Strategy | As you read the paragraph: 1. Can you make connections to anything you read about in the passage? 2. What previous knowledge, if any, do you have of this topic? | Your connections to the passage:I make a connections with my relative . he was facing kidney problems . Sorry to say that I have no knowledge about this topic |

Using the Visualizing Strategy | What is in the passage that you can visualize (see in your mind) as you read? | Your visualizations of Kidney problem , heart disease, berthing problem this kind disease I think to much harmful of our health . we should awareness to people how to avoid this kind of disease |

Using the Summarizing Strategy | 1. Write one or two sentences that summarize the passage. | Your summary of the passage: This passage this passage about the disease like if someone have a kidney disease what should be happen next . like if some one have a kidney disease problem they should be face breathing problem . |

Reading #2: A Personal Journey

Every summer, my mother and I journeyed from our home in Florida to the farm in Mississippi, on which she was raised.

Using the Predicting Strategy | Read the title and first sentence above. Now predict what you think the passage will be about. | Your prediction about the passage:This passage about personal journey . every summer they go for vacation . |

Now read the whole paragraph.

A Personal Journey

Every summer, my mother and I journeyed from our home in Florida to the farm in Mississippi, on which she was raised. However, the summer of my twenty-second year, we began our trip from Alabama instead of Florida. The entire Mississippi clan had traveled over to witness my graduation from Judson College. As a first-generation college graduate, I just knew, I knew more than any of them, especially my mother. Relief, joy, and a sense of freedom flooded me as Mother suggested I drive her car and she ride with Aunt Kaye. Every so often, I purposely lagged behind the caravan, lit up a cigarette, and smoked as I pleased – no matter that smoking was absolutely forbidden in Mother’s car. The cross-breeze from the rolled-down windows and my flicking the butts out the front window guaranteed that she would never know. Late that evening, as we unloaded the back seat, we both came upon a startling discovery at the same time: a deep burn hole the size of a knuckle. One of the butts had blown back in and was lodged in the back seat. Silence loomed. Then mother said, “People are more important than things; I will not let this ruin this special time for us.” In a blink, I traveled from pride to shame to redemption. Mother’s one moment of mercy taught me more than four years of college.

[Adapted from Henry, The Effective Reader, 2004, p. 110]

Using the Questioning Strategy | As you read the paragraph: 1. Do you find any details confusing, or that you wonder about? 2. Are there words you don’t know? Which words are unfamiliar? 3. What questions do you have about any confusing sentences? | Your questions about the passage:I am not sure who write story if he tell about smoking which one is the basic topics in this passage? Smoking is a bad habit or journey? |

Using the Making Connections Strategy | As you read the paragraph: 1. Can you make connections to anything you read about in the passage? 2. What previous knowledge, if any, do you have of this topic? | Your connections to the passage:I make connections with my mother . we go family tour our summer vacation this passage reminds those days |

Using the Visualizing Strategy | What is in the passage that you can visualize (see in your mind) as you read? | Your visualizations of the text:When I read this passage . I create some picture in my mind . I create sweet family relation author loves his mother |

Using the Summarizing Strategy | Write one or two sentences that summarize the passage. | Your summary of the passage:This passage about journey . every summer they go vacation . | |