IN THE HISTORY READING AND RECREATION BY NANCY C. RODRIGUEZ 1.What reasons do students give for doing extracurricular activities?
2. Why does a student who participates in extracurricular activities need to be very disciplined ?
3. Which of the questions do you think the writer considered most important for developing her ideas?
4.How does Ashley Brown's experience support the main idea of the feature?
5.Write a paragraph describing Courtney Otto and Ashley Brown skills and how they help each girl?

Directions: in 2 - 3 paragraphs respond to mack's idea about the "interplay of life and literature" in lines 92 - 100 in " why read shakespeare". 1. explain what it means to say that finding meaning in shakespeare "is a sort of proving ground for finding beauty and meaning in life". provide reasons that support your claim. 2. explain which is more important - that literature teaches readers about life or that understanding life readers understand literature. identify examples from literature you have read. 3. summarize your view of the interplay between literature and your own lives, explaining whether you see a connection or not and why.