close reading

Close reading is when you observe facts and details about the text. You can focus on a small portion or you can look at the reading as a whole. After you read or during you read you can annotate the text. When your reading looking for repetitions and similarities. Than ask questions in your head about what you have just read.

1943

If i was to wake up in my bed in 1943 i would have absolutely no idea what was going on. I would wake up and see how everything around is me looks like its ancient. The clothing people wear would be completely different. The first thing i would do when i woke up is go to a baseball game and see some of the great old timer baseball players in action. Baseball was huge during the 1940s and it would be awesome to go to a game back then. Also the value of money was completely different. I would be rich, considering a hot dog back than was only like 5 cents.

21st century Emerson

A 21st century Emerson would say; while the methods of education have changed the role of the scholar has remained the same.  Emerson believed that the role of the scholar was not always to gain more knowledge but to help educate the less fortunate.  While education is more wide spread and tools like the cell phone and computer make learning more accessible there are still people in the world who don't have access to these tools.  He would say that the role of the scholar is to help achieve wide spread education.