Activity 7: reading for understanding
now you are ready to read jeremy rifkin's "a change of heart about animals." for the first time through,
you should read to understand the text. read as if you trust rifkin, and focus on what he is trying to say.
try to see whether the predictions you have made about the text are true. is the article about what you
thought it would be about? does rifkin say what you thought he would say?
when you have finished reading, answer the following questions:
1. which predictions turned out to be true?
2. what surprised you?
3. what does rifkin want readers to believe?
4. what are some of the things people believe humans can do that animals cannot? how does rifkin
challenge those beliefs?
5. what authorities does rifkin use to support his case?
6. what action does rifkin want readers to take?
7. how does rifkin organize his essay? is it an effective organization?

( i need to turn in by midnight )

Frankenstein: what attitudes toward education are expressed by shelley in her description of victor’s upbringing in chapter 1? what, for example, motivates victor and elizabeth to study/practice?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

The denouement comes at the beginning of a story a. true b. false