1) Think of (or imagine) a time when you were in a place where no one spoke your first language. How did this feel? How did you communicate with people around you? What are some of the challenges that you faced?

Reading critically involves reading to criticize reading many texts questioning a text talking about interests

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

Which characteristic of james baldwin’s “notes of a native son” qualify as a work of literary nonfiction