Monday-Context

Monday-Context: Conclusion If you have completed the tasks described in the previous articles you are ready to go deeper into the text on Tuesday. You will have accomplished your main objective and reached Monday’s goal: to understand well the various contexts that frame the passage you are studying along with the role that passage plays …

Monday-Context Objective:  To place the passage in its historical and literary context. Goal (mile-marker 1):  To have a few paragraphs written that help you explain the contribution the passage makes to the argument of the book as a whole, along with its relationship to the portions that precede and follow it in the text. If …

Task 3: Determine the Contribution to the Immediate Context and Overall Argument Essence of the Task If in Monday’s first task you examined the context of the passage to be studied and in the second you got a general idea of the passage itself, this third assignment is intended to relate your tentative understanding of …