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Prior Knowledge

Prior Knowledge. Critical Reading. After reading, u nderline the most important sentence in the article. Before we begin our critical reading strategies…. Prior knowledge plays a huge role in how students perform on the SAT Often referred to as “schema”

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Prior Knowledge

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  1. Prior Knowledge Critical Reading

  2. After reading, underline the most important sentence in the article.

  3. Before we begin our critical reading strategies… • Prior knowledge plays a huge role in how students perform on the SAT • Often referred to as “schema” • “Because comprehension and communication are so dependent on prior knowledge, students whose knowledge of a topic is limited have difficulty comprehending much of what they read and difficulty communicating in writing about that topic.”

  4. Prior Knowledge • Adds to your cultural understandings • Builds your vocabulary • Heavily impacts your critical reading ability and the sophistication of your essay

  5. Throughout the rest of our course… • We will have these “cultural connections” days that include talks, speeches, clips from key films, plays and novels • The purpose is to provide you with a larger prior knowledge base AND to give you fodder for possible essay prompts

  6. Ted Talk – “Beethoven the businessman” • After we watch, you will be using the information from this video as an example paragraph for an essay prompt • Take some notes as we watch so you can refer back to them while writing

  7. SAT Passage Excerpt: Beethoven’s birthplace, Bonn, no doubt proved a favorable soil for the propagation of new ideas. The unrest pervading all classes, an outcome of the Revolution, showed itself among the more serious-minded in increased intellectuality, and a reaching after higher things. The beauty in music had been sufficiently exploited by Mozart and Haydn. Beethoven demonstrated that music had a higher function than that of mere beauty, or the simple act of giving pleasure… It is the best office of art, of Beethoven’s art in particular, that it leads ever onward and upward; that it acts not only on the aesthetic and moral sense, but develops the mental faculties as well…

  8. Now… • Use the information and ideas in the Ted Talk as an example to support your claim about one of the provided prompts • Write a thesis statement • Write a body paragraph that explores this topic as an example to support your claim

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