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HERE ARE THE COLLECTIONS OF THE BEST (AND FITTING) ARTICLES I HAVE EVER READ AND USED FOR READING INSTRUCTIONS. Please read the first chapter about independent reading, answer the questions after each reading, and keep a reading journal.  Keeping reading journal is the best way to make reading permanent.


6-12학년에 맞는 최고의 독해자료를 모아 놓았습니다. 하루에 한 지문을 성실하게 읽는 것이 독해실력 향상에 크게 도움이 됩니다.  1 과에 나오는 자율 독서 문제를 참고하면 지문이해와 작문에 큰 도움이 됩니다. 

1. Independent Reading (자율독서)

One of the best ways to improve reading is independent reading. Independent reading is individuals' reading of text — such as books, magazines, and newspapers — on their own, with minimal to no assistance from others.  It can consist of reading done in or out of school, including purely voluntary reading for enjoyment or assigned reading for homework.  

To encourage independent reading, I encourage 5-4-3-2-1 count-down strategies

5: Summarize the story (or any composition) in 5 sentences.

4: Write about 4 interesting facts (or characters).

3: Find 3 quotes and write their significances (speaker, occasion, context, meaning).

2: Find 2 rhetorical devices and their functions.

1: Find 1 symbol and its meaning. 

2. 5-4-3-2-1 Expanded

5-4-3-2-1 Reading Strategies

5 Sentence Summary

          Sentence One: Tell who had a problem, what the problem was, and what the main character(s) did to solve the problem.

 
Sentences Two through Four: Tell the most important events, in the order they happened.

First,
Then,
Finally,


Sentence Five: Tell the result or outcome of what happened. (Relate this sentence back to the problem above.)

 EXAMPLE:

            
Goldilocks wanted a place to rest and eat, so she entered the home of the three bears. First, she tasted the porridge until she found the bowl that was just right. Then, she sat in all three chairs. Finally, she tried all the beds until she found one that was comfortable enough to fall asleep in. When the bears returned home and found their home vandalized, and Goldilocks sleeping in baby bear’s bed, they chased her out of the house.

          Rejected by Rosaline, Romeo gets hopelessly depressed. To encourage Romeo, Romeo’s friends take Romeo to a party. At the party, Romeo meets Juliet, his family’s archenemy’s daughter, and they fall in love. They try their best to solve the century-old family feud. Unfortunate events and accidents accumulate, and they die, ironically restoring the peace between two families.

4 Facts Related to the Thesis

 EXAMPLE: Juliet is fourteen. 

3 Quotes with explanation

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep; the more I give to thee,/The more I have, for both are infinite.” (2.2.) Juliet describes her feelings for Romeo. Like Romeo, who is young and inexperienced, Juliet thinks that love is freedom: her love is “boundless” and “infinite.”

2 Rhetorical Devices

1 Main Assertion (Thesis):  Love may prove lethal to the young and inexperienced.

Thesis = What the story is about? (topic) + what the writer says about the topic?

Practice

Short Practice: The Story of an Hour

Long Practice: The Transformation of the American Dream
Link: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking

3. FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS

  1. HOW DO YOU MUMMIFY A BODY? 
  2. WHY DO WE LOVE JUNK FOOD? 
  3. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AN AUSTRALIAN CITY GAVE TREES EMAIL ADDRESSES?
  4. WHAT GIVES BUGS BUNNY HIS LASTING POWER?
  5. THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE REAL SMOKEY BEAR?
  6. HOW A PIZZA MAKER CHANGED THE STUNT-KITE-FLYING WORLD?
  7. WOULD YOU EAT SOUP MADE FROM CRICKETS? 
  8. WHAT IS THE TRUE COST OF EATING MEAT?
  9. WHY DOES MY DOG HOWL AT SIRENS?
  10. HOW DO COLORS AFFECT OUR MOODS?
  11. IS IT TRUE THAT ELEPHANTS CAN'T JUMP?
  12. DOES LIGHTNING EVER STRIKE TWICE?
  13. DOES STRESS TURN YOUR HAIR GRAY?
  14. WHY DO FLAMINGOS STAND ON ONE LEG?
  15. WOULD YOU HANG OUT WITH CATS, RABBITS OR OWLS?
  16. THE SCIENCE OF KEEPING NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
  17. WHY CHARLES DICKENS WROTE "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"?
  18. WHY DO WE SNEEZE?
  19. WOULD YOU HANG OUT WITH CATS, RABBITS OR OWLS?
  20. HAPPY LEAP DAY! BROUGHT TOYOU BY JULIUS CAESAR
  21. INVENTING THE PERFECT UMBRELLA
  22. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S FIRST "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH
  23. WHY CHARLES DICKENS WROTE "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"?
  24. KIDS WHO DON'T DRINK WATER CONSUME MORE SWEETNED BEVERAGES
  25. WHY UTAH MIGHT BE YOUR NEXT FAVORITE SNORKELING DESTINATION
  26. Why does every American graduation play "Pomp and Circumstance"?
  27. Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story
  28. Immerse yourself in Jane Goodall’s wondrous, chimpanzee-filled life
  29. For the first time, a National U.S. Observatory has been named for a female astronomer: Vera Rubin
  30. Meet the illustrator who brought children’s books to life
  31. Five things to know about Little Golden Books
  32. Meet the stars of Smithsonian's new Fossil Hall
  33. Tootsie Rolls were WWII energy bars
  34. Unraveling the history of the ugly holiday sweater
  35. The children of Pearl Harbor
  36. Meet Advait Jukar, a scientist who studies fossil elephants
  37. The augmented reality app that lets you experience the moon landing
  38. The boy who became a World War II veteran at 13 years old
  39. How the Guinness Book of World Records became an international phenomenon
  40. The roots of computer code lie in telegraph code
  41. PLETHORA (fr. 38)
  42. Playing Video Games is Killing You by Megan Holstein
  43. Why video games may be good for you by Nic Fleming

6. SHORT FICTIONS

  1. "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson
  2. "The Witch," by Shirley Jackson
  3. Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto
  4. Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes
  5. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
  6. Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
  7. One Friday Morning” by Langston Hughes
  8. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
  9. Charles” by Shirley Jackson
  10. “Names/Nombres” by Julia Alvarez
  11. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
  12. The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield
  13. Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan
  14. “Liars Don’t Qualify” by Junius Edwards
  15. The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty
  16. “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
  17. The Friday Everything Changed“ by Anne Hart
  18. The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas
  19. “Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas
  20. Wildflower by Amrita Pritam
  21. The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
  22. The Fun They Had” by Issac Asimov
  23. Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
  24. A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
  25. Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
  26. Valediction” by Sherman Alexie
  27. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
  28. “When I Lay My Burden Down” by Maya Angelou
  29. The Medicine Bag” by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
  30. “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen
  31. Mother and Daughter” by Gary Soto
  32. The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe
  33. The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher

9. ON GROWING UP

  1. TENNIS, TRIGONOMETRY, TORNADOES BY DAVID WALLACE
  2. EXPLICIT VIOLENCE BY LIDIA YUKNAVITCH
  3. ON BEING AN ONLY CHILD BY GEOFF DYER
  4. US AND THEM BY DAVID SEDARIS
  5. DUMB KIDS' CLASS BY MARK BOWDEN
  6. THE COMFORT ZONE BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
  7. COUNTDOWN BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
  8. DIFFICULT GIRL BY LENA DUNHAM
  9. STING-RAY AFTERNOONS BY STEVE RUSHIN
  10. OUT WEST BY JOE WILKINS
  11. MY DAD TRIED TO KILL ME WITH AN ALLIGATOR BY HARRISON KEY
  12. YOU WILL NEVER SLEEP WITH A WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE THAT BY JUSTIN HALPERN
  13. THE SIEGE OF FULTON AVENUE BY DAVID AMSDEN
  14. PREP-SCHOOL GANGSTERS BY NANCY SALES
  15. LIFE'S SWELL BY SUSAN ORLEAN
  16. OFF DIAMOND HEAD BY WILLIAM FINNEGAN
  17. RAIDERS OF LOST BACKYARD BY JIM WINDOLF
  18. LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA BY JUNOT DIAZ
  19. THE SAME RIVER TWICE BY DAVID QUAMMEN
  20. SCARS BY DAVID OWEN






11. ON MONEY

  1. NOTHING GROWN FOREVER BY CLIVE THOMPSON
  2. THE AUSTERITY DELUSION BY PAUL KRUGMAN
  3. BUILDING A GREEN ECONOMY BY PAUL KRUGMAN
  4. THE INVISIBLE ECONOMY BY BILL DAVIDOW
  5. OF FLYING CARDS AND DECLINING RATE OF PROFIT BY DAVID GRAEBER
  6. THE END BY MICHAEL LEWIS
  7. BETTING ON THE BLIND SIDE BY MICHAEL LEWIS
  8. WALL STREET ON THE TUNDRA BY MICHAEL LEWIS
  9. BEWARE OF GREEKS BEARING BONDS BY MICHAEL LEWIS
  10. WHEN IRISH EYES ARE CRYING BY MICHAEL LEWIS
  11. WALL STREET SMARTS BY CALVIN TRILLIN
  12. THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT MONEY BY GREGG EASTERBROOK
  13. WHY WE GIVE FREE MONEY TO EVERYONE BY RUTGER BREGAN
  14. IMAGINING A CASHLESS WORLD BY NATHAN HELLER




12. ABOUT EVIL

  1. POSTCARD FROM THE APOCALYPSE BY TIM CAHILL
  2. NEVER FORGET BY MICHAEL PATERNITI
  3. BYSTANDERS TO GENOCIDE BY SAMANTHA POWER
  4. SURRENDER IS OUT OF THE QUESTION BY MAC MCCLELLAND
  5. THE RETURN OF DEATH BY MARTIN AMIS
  6. THE TICKING IS THE BOMB BY NICK FLYNN
  7. THE VIETNAM SYNDROME BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
  8. IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH BY TIM CAHILL
  9. THE XINJIANG PROCEDURE BY ETHAN GUTHMANN
  10. GYNOCIDE BY BARBARA EHRENREICH
  11. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL BY TONY JUDT
  12. THE DISAPPEARED BY SALMAN RUSHDIE
  13. TONY BAIR, DREAD CREATURE OF THE FORBIDDEN SWAMP BY SAM KRISS


13. ABOUT COMPUTER

  1. BUILDING THE VW OF PCS BY PO BRONSON
  2. CREATION MYTH BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
  3. FLYING UPSIDE DOWN BY TRACY KIDDER
  4. THE TINKERINGS OF ROBERT NOYCE BY TOM WOLFE
  5. HOW INTEL MAKES A CHIP BY MAX CHAFKIN
  6. IS THE WEB DRIVING US MAD? BY TONY DOKOUPIL
  7. SAD AS HELL BY ALICE GREGORY
  8. THE INFORMATION BY ADAM GOPNIK
  9. CYBORG DREAMS BY TOM CHATFIELD
  10. WHAT IS CODE? BY PAUL FORD
  11. THE END OF CODE BY JASON TANZ
  12. THE ROBOTS ARE COMING BY JOHN LANCHESTER
  13. WE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL BY RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN
  14. HOW TO TEACHER AI SOME COMMON SENSE BY CLIVE THOMPSON
  15. THE ARTIFICIAL EXAMINER BY STEVEN JOHNSON
  16. MIND VS. MACHINE BY BRIAN CHRISTIAN

14. ABOUT LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS

  1. DATING ONLINE BY EMILY WITT
  2. LOOKING FOR SOMEONE BY NICK PAUMGARTEN
  3. TINDER AND DAWN OF THE "DATING APOCALYSE" BY NANCY SALES
  4. A MILLION FIRST DATES BY DAN SLATER
  5. DATING BY NUMBERS BY KEVIN POULSEN
  6. MASTERS OF LOVE BY EMILY SMITH
  7. THIS IS EMO BY CHUCK KLOSTEMAN
  8. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER BY TIM URBAN
  9. MY SUPERPOWER IS BEING ALONE FOREVER BY JOE BERKOWITZ AND JOANNA NEBORSKY
  10. IT'S NOT THEM, IT'S YOU BY JEN DOLL
  11. LIKING IS FOR COWARDS BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
  12. IN RELATIONSHIPS, BE DELIBERATE BY SMITH AND RHOADES
  13. LOVE ME TINDER BY EMILY WITT
  14. MORMONS, ORTHODOX JEWS AND THE DATING CRISIS BY JON BIRGER
  15. THE LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP BY MARIA KONNIKOVA
  16. HOW FRIENDSHIPS CHANGE IN ADULTHOOD BY JULIE BECK
  17. FRIENDS OF A CERTAIN AGE BY ALEX WILLIAMS
  18. THE MAN DATE BY JENNIFER LEE

15. ON INTELLIGENCE

  1. THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS BY DAVID DOBBS
  2. WE ARE ALL CONFIDENT IDIOTS BY DAVID DUNNING
  3. WHAT KIND OF GENIUS ARE YOU BY DANIEL H. PINK
  4. CAN YOU MAKE YOURSELF SMARTER? BY DAN HURLEY
  5. SECRETS OF THE CREATIVE BRAIN BY NANCY ANDERASEN
  6. TV MAKES YOU SMARTER BY STEVEN JOHNSON
  7. HOW GENIUSES THINK BY MICHAEL MICHALKO
  8. LATE BLOOMERS BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
  9. THE MYTH OF PRODIGY BY ERIC WARGO
  10. COMPEXITY AND THE TEN THOUSAND HOUR RULE BY MALCOLM CLADWELL

16. ABOUT DEATH

  1. AFTER LIFE BY JOAN DIDION
  2. WHEN THINGS GO MISSING BY KATHRYN SCHULZ
  3. HOUSE FOR SALE BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
  4. NOT FADE AWAY BY MARIA BUSTILLOS
  5. NOW WE ARE FIVE BY DAVID SEDARIS
  6. FATAL DISTRACTION BY GENE WEINGARTEN
  7. THE SORROW AND THE SHAME OF THE ACCIDENTAL KILLER BY ALICE GREGORY
  8. FREEZING TO DEATH BY PETER STARK
  9. I'M SORRY I DIDN'T RESPOND TO YOUR EMAIL BY RACHEL WARD
  10. FINAL FORMS BY KATHRYN SCHULTZ
  11. THE COMING DEATH SHORTAGE BY CHARLES MANN
  12. NOT NOTHING BY STEPHEN DAVE
  13. THE UNDERTAKER'S RACKET BY JESSICA MITFORD
  14. HOW OLD IS TOO OLD TO DIE? BY CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
  15. HOW NOT TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY ART KLEINER
  16. LET'S DIE TOGETHER BY DAVID SAMUELS
  17. THE SUICIDE CATCHER
  18. THE SUICDIE PIDEMIC BY TONY DOKOUPIL

17. ON PSYCHOLOGY

  1. The Science of Success by David Dobbs
  2. We are All Confident Idiots by David Dunning
  3. What Kind of Genius Are You? by Daniel H. Pink
  4. Secrets of the Creative Brain by Nancy C. Andreasen
  5. The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't by Steven Johnson
  6. Slow Ideas by Atul Gawande
  7. Remember This by Joshua Foer
  8. How Many of Your Memories Are Fake? by Erika Hayasaki
  9. Where Do Children



18. ABOUT RACE AND RACISM

  1. HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA BY KIESE LAYMON
  2. OUR KIND OF RIDICULOUS BY KIESE LAYMON
  3. TIRED OF TALKING ABOUT DIVERSITY BY ROAXANE GAY
  4. A PLACE WHERE WE ARE EVERYTHING BY ROXANE GAY
  5. THE PRICE OF BLACK AMBITION BY ROXANE GAY
  6. IN SEARCH OF A MAJORITY BY JAMES BALDWIN
  7. A LETTER TO MY NEPHEW BY JAMES BALDWIN
  8. HOW TO COOL IT BY JAMES BALDWIN
  9. WHAT'S HOLDING BLACKS BACK? BY JOHN MCWHORTER
  10. ANTIRACISM, OUR FLAWED RELIGION BY JOHN MCWHORTER
  11. BLACK LIKE THEM BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
  12. NONE OF THE ABOVE BY MALCOM GLADWELL
  13. GETTING IN BY MALCOLM GLADWELL

19. ABOUT TRAVEL & ARCHITECTURE

  1. THE BOOK BY PATRICK SYMMES
  2. SHIPPING OUT BY DAVID WALLACE
  3. Role of Architecture and Design by UKessays
  4. DEATH OF AN INNOCCENT BY JON KRAKAUER
  5. THE PLACE TO DISAPPEAR BY SUSAN ORLEAN
  6. THE BOOOKS THEY CARRIED BY PETER LINDBERG
  7. INSIDE THE MAD, MAD WORLD OF TRIPADVISOR BY TOM VANDERBILT
  8. TOURIST TRAPS WORTH A VISIT BY PETER LINDBERG
  9. THE GRAND TOUR BY EVAN OSNOS
  10. LOSING IT AT CLUB MED BY PO BRONSON
  11. AGAINST HONEYMOONS BY CHARLES COMEY
  12. WELCOME TO DOG WORLD! BY BLAIR BRAVERMAN
  13. THE ROAD TO SHANGRI-LA BY PATRICK SYMMES
  14. THANKSGIVING IN MONGOLIA BY ARIEL LEVY
  15. Gaudi's Gift by Stanley Meisler
  16. Explore Gaudi's Barcelona by Jesse Rhodes
  17. How Antoni Gaudí’s Eccentric Style Changed the Face of Modernist Architecture by Claire Selvin
  18. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GREEK AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE by UKessays
  19. OPERATION IRAQI VACATION BY SAKI KNAFO
  20. THE TEEMING ARK BY TIM CAHILL
  21. IN A MINIVAN WITH A STRANGER IN MOROCCO BY MICHAEL CHABON
  22. HOLY WATER BY BUCKY MCHAHON
  23. HOME BY CHRIS JONES
  24. WEDDING CRASHER BY GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS
  25. TAKE NOTHING, LEAVE NOTHING BY SIMON WNCHESTER
  26. What Went Wrong in Seattle? by Jacob Vigdor

20. ABOUT ADVENTURES

  1. UP IN THE AIR BY BEN WOFFORD
  2. GAME OF THRONES BY DAVID OWEN
  3. JOURNEY INTO NIGHT BY DAVID SEDARIS
  4. MOTHER EARTH MOTHER BOARD BY NEAL STEPHENSON
  5. HEART OF DARK CHOCOLATE BY ROWN JACOBSEN
  6. THE LOST CITY OF Z BY DAVID GRANN
  7. LIKE BUTTERFLIES N THE JUNGLE BY DAMON TABOR
  8. FORBIDDEN BY TIM CAHILL
  9. A GOOD HAIR WEK IN MONGOLIA BY TIM CAHILL
  10. THE KINGDOM OF THE LOTUS BY PATRICK SYMMES
  11. AFTER THE FALL BY BISSELL AND MEIS
  12. THE COLD PATROL BY MICHAEL FINKEL
  13. DEATH OF AN INNOCENT BY JON KRAKAUER
  14. TRAPPED BY ARON RALSTON
  15. WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION BY SCOTT ANDERSON
  16. DEATH ON THE PATH TO ENLIGHENMENT BY SCOTT CARNEY
  17. THE GHOST ROAD BY MARK JENKINS
  18. THE JERUSALEM SYNDROME BY CHRIS NASHAWATY
  19. THE 15 YEAR LAYOVER BY MICHAEL PATERNITI

21. ABOUT ADVENTURE SPORTS

  1. WHY WE PLAY BY EVA HOLLAND
  2. INTO THIN AIR BY JON KRAKAUER
  3. UNCLIMBABLE BY EVA HOLLAND
  4. THE MOUNTAIN BY MOUNTAINS BY KEVIN FEDARKO
  5. POINT OF NO RETURN BY MARK JENKINS
  6. EVEREST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA BY BUCKY MCMAHON
  7. OUT IN THE GRAT ALONE BY BRIAN PHILLIPS
  8. KASHMIRI EXTREMISM BY KEVIN FEDARKO
  9. THE FAST TRACK TO DHARMA BY MICHAEL PATERNITI
  10. HOW TO SPEND 47 HOURS ON A TRAIN AND NOT GO CRAZY BY NATHANIEL RICH
  11. HOW TO USE A SQUAT TOILET BY FRANK BURES
  12. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY BY ELIZABETH GILBERT
  13. MAGIC MOUNTAINS BY TONY JUDT
  14. DO WE TRANSCEND BEFORE OR AFTER WE PURCHASE THE COMMEMORATIV EEL CAKES? BY SUAN ORLEAN

22. By George Orwell

Fifty Orwell Essays: 50 Great Essays by George Orwell