Close+Reading

**Close Reading of Unfamiliar texts **
This is a page designed to help you hone your close reading skills.

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TONE AND MOOD -
Have a [|look at this] for some new ideas about tackling unfamiliar text yourself.



COMPARE AND CONTRAST -
This is a major component of the close reading you'll do in the NCEA exam.

Have a look at the following writing/articles about particular topics and make some judgements, draw some conclusions about how they've been tackled by different authors.

__Burqas - __ [|Rethinking Frances' Burqa Ban] [|Burqa ban would shame a free country] [|We don't want our burqas back: women in Afghanistan on the Taliban's return]

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