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
1 As you teach close reading, itâs important that you know the text backwards and forwards. 2  Every time you raise an issue or ask a question for discussion (e.g. âHow do we know that Macbeth feels guilty?â), youâll know how to help your students find the textual evidence and where itâs located in the text. Close Read Across the Curriculum. 2  Once students are familiar with close reading in one content area, expand the process to other texts and content areas. 3  Close reading can happen in science, social studies, math, and other subjects.