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READING COMPREHENSION ------
Step 1: Read “How Spies Are Caught” on page 554 in your textbook.  
Step 2: Answer the following questions:  
1. In your own words, list the four ways a spy can be caught as a numbered process.  
2. This anonymous author uses both statistics and anecdote to explain how spies are caught.  In your own words, give an example of the author’s use of a statistic.  In your own words, give an example the author’s use of an anecdote.  
3. In your opinion, and referring to the information in this essay, what steps can the government do to catch spies more effectively?  
Step 3: In a well-structured paragraph that is about five to eight sentences in length, please respond to the following:  
Let us say that you supervise a corporate office that deals with highly competitive, secret information about your company’s new products every day.  You suspect that someone on your staff is spying for a competitor.  What steps could you take to discover the spy?  Write this process in a first person narrative style explaining the process you would follow.  
Note: You may submit the paragraph in the same file, but please use a separate page and ensure that you use APA format.  
Step 4: List all the pronouns you used in your paragraph and indicate whether the pronoun is singular or plural.



-----READING COMPREHENSION--------

Step 1: Read “Fads” by David A. Locher on page 510 in your textbook.

Step 2: Answer the following questions:

1.    Locher divides one of the categories mentioned in the thesis statement into three subcategories.  What are they?


2.    Who benefits the most when a product becomes a fad?  Explain.

3.    Why do fads disappear?

4.    Do you think Locher’s categorization of fads ignores good reasons for fads?  Why or why not?

Step 3: In a well-structured paragraph that is about five to eight sentences in length, please respond to the following:

Write a classification paragraph about types of celebrities.  Make sure the fads are linked by a common classification principle.  For example, you might write about types of hair fads, or you might break down fashion fads or activity fads into categories.

Step 4: List all the modifiers you used in your paragraph.  Note what kind of modifier each is (adjective or adverb).


--- PART III: READING COMPREHENSION #1  
Step 1: Read “Don’t Worry, Act Happy” by Albert Nerenberg on page 224 in your textbook.  
Step 2: Answer the following questions:  

1. Using your own words, describe the Act Happy theory.  
2. Why are people so reluctant to act happy if they don’t feel happy?  
3. What changes do people experience both in their psychology and in their body by acting happy?  
4. Why is this theory not a post hoc fallacy? 
  

Documents_________
Scan 1-2 How Spies Are Caught
Scan 3-4 Don’t Worry, Act Happy” by Albert Nerenberg 
Fads- Fads” by David A. Locher  


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