A study from Harvard School of Public Health found an association with red meat consumption and increased risk of a shortened lifespan. Eating healthier protein sources such as fish, poultry, nuts, and legumes was associated with a lower risk of mortality.
Close reading. In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, effected by close attention to individual words, the syntax, and the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as the reader scans the line of text. In contemporary English practice, the technique of close reading was pioneered by I. A. Richards and his student William Empson; close reading then was technically dev
Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading examines the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century; identifies 6 signposts that help readers understand and respond to character development, conflict, point of view, and theme; provides 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely; offers 6 Notice and Note model lessons, including text selections and teaching tools, that help ...