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Through pre-reading Gina Mei's "Learning to Cook for One," I predict that Gina Mei dives into the challenges of cooking alone during a time of tragedy. She expresses how she learned to be okay being alone, but how cooking alone is a harder task than really being alone. She also deep dives into the reality of shopping alone and how it is a challenge of self-control, as well as the difficulty of taking care of yourself in a time of tragedy.

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After reading through Gina Mei's essay "Leaning to cook for one" and using pre-reading strategies I predict that Gina Mei is in a really hard time in her life and she will learn to channel those emotions through cooking. She will partake on a journey of learning to make new foods and trying news things. On the way she will have to deal with the problems that arise and this will help her and teach her important life lessons.

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By pre-reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei I can infer and predict that she experienced a difficult time and that her story will illustrate her journey of self-care. I think that her way of self-progress and escape from reality is through cooking.

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After my read through of Dina Mei's Essay "Learning to Cook for One"and using pre-reading strategies I looked into how it lines up with Historical-Social aspect. I find that the essay creates an idea of how social media and the idea of health care now is relatively different from when Mei and our parents learned about self care. We don't realize it but self-care is all over social media today and you can find it nearly on each social media platform. This being said I predict that she wants to reach out to Woman of different ages and even men from the same time line and ensure that they understand what self care it. I want to further predict that she is using her experience as a lesson to others like her that might not have thought to help themselves before experiencing something extreme and lead them to trying different things they find to be refreshing and relaxing in times of stress.

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After reading "Gina Mei's essay" and using the Global pre-reading technique, I predict that Gina explores the significance of learning life skills to develop your self-care is a huge step in the process of maintaining a healthy perspective. I believe that she uses the skill of learning to cook to progress her skills but also the use of self-care.

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I predict that Gina Mei, the author of "Learning to Cook for One" is addressing an audience of mostly women to describe her experience with using cooking as a form of self care and encouraging others to do something similar. I predict that she will describe her challenges and the way she is actively conquering them by taking a step back to do something for herself, cooking. I also predict that she describes, at least subtly, the importance of nutrition for mental health.

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After reading this short article using the pre-reading strategies I predict that this is short piece detailing the importance of self-care especially through the act of cooking.

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After reading “Learning to Cook for One” by Gina Mei, my prediction is that she will start to cook for her self. I predict that she will want to cook for herself and look at it as a want not a have to do. I believe that after reading that her life went down hill and many people she knew ended up ill, she will start to take the simple self care skill of cooking more serious.

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After using the pre-reading strategy on "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei I predict that the short story is about her journey to being content being by herself. I predict that cooking will be her way of becoming comfortable with herself.

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After pre reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I believe that Gina is going to start cooking but have a love hate relationship with it. Cooking might remind her of loss and grief. I think eventually she will use cooking as a coping mechanism and maybe learn to share her gifts with others.

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After pre-reading Gina Mei's "Learning to Cook for One," I predict that she will share how she learned to cook for herself and the struggles that she will face. I also think that she will share struggles that other people might face and how to overcome each of them. I noticed that she said she hated cooking for herself and I think she will write about how she learned to love how to cook.

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From Gina Mei's essay, "Learning to Cook for One," I can predict that when she cooks for herself, she will endure a liberating and fulfilling experience. It will act almost therapeutical to her wellbeing and mental wellness. I believe that she is going to go through dee thoughts throughout her cooking experience.

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After reading Gina Mei’s essay, I can predict that the whole story is really about Gina learning to spend more time with herself doing something she truly enjoys. I believe she will find a lot of joy in doing this for herself and learn more and more about cooking through practice.

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After reading Gina Mei's thoughts about "Learning to Cook for One" as well as using the pre- reading strategies, I feel confident enough to predict that she will eventually discover that cooking can be an outlet for her to express herself. It can be a way for her to relive stress and be with herself and her thoughts as a way to cope.

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After using the pre-reading strategies on Ginna Mei's essay titled "Learning to Cook for One", I predict that Gina Mei will learn to practice and exercise self care in the form of cooking. I feel like she may go into depth on her past self care/ self love journey and what has not worked for her in the past. She will eventually reveal and learn that cooking can be a form of expression and maybe even help her mentally work through life when she goes through trials. Further, based on the informal tone of the intro and concluding paragraph, she may makes jokes and insert humor on the struggles she has faced.

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Using the reading strategies, my prediction for Gina Mei is that she will learn self care and independency through cooking her own meals based off the beginning. She's learning to build a habit of self control. All while changing her perspective of cooking and the effort put into it.

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After using the pre-reading strategies for Gina Mei's "Learning to Cook for One", I predict that she will learn proper self care through cooking. She has a hard time with both cooking and taking care of herself because she is not accustomed to the practices. Though, through learning to love cooking for herself she may also want to find other things to do for herself. Cooking may also be the gateway to achieving a sense of mental stability throughout her period of grief with losing a loved one.

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After combing through Gina Mei's essay titled "Learning to Cook for One" and using the pre-reading strategies I just previously learned, I predict that Gina will better understand how to improve her self-care routine. She will break through her limitations and realize that she should put self-care first before anything else so she is able to still live life to the fullest without feeling that she needs to be in service of others rather than herself.

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After reading through Gina Mei's essay on "Learning to Cook for One" and using the pre-reading strategies, I predict she will learn to be better at self care. Gina says she doesn't like to cook for herself, but I believe the more she keeps up with it, the better she will feel. Emotionally and mentally, she will feel better about herself because she knows she is taking better care of herself.

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After reading Gina Mei's essay "Learning to Cook for One," and using the pre-reading strategies I just learned, I can predict that although she does enjoy being and living alone, she does not enjoy cooking for one. She will push herself to learn to love it and do it regularly for herself. She will do this as a form of self-care and as a way to better herself.

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After reading through Gina Mei's essay and using the pre-reading strategies, I predict that "Learning to Cook for One" is about Gina learning to spend more time on herself, especially through cooking. She will realize that taking time out of the day to make herself a nourishing meal instead of ordering takeout or heating up a frozen meal is better for her health and wellness in the long run. She will discover that cooking has helped her cope and heal from all the hardships she's experienced. I predict that as she tells her story, she's persuading readers to spend more time on themselves and start making meals for one like she's learned to.

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After reading the Gina Mei's essay about "learning to cook for one," and also using the pre-Reading strategies is that Gina is going to have to learn new thing and have to change the way she cooks for herself. Another thing ill predict is that she is going to spend too much time cooking that it ends up being something shell really love or really hate. Lastly, I can predict that she will teach us what she does and how to learn how to cook for yourself or for someone.

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After reading and using the reading strategies and then seeing the title learning to cook by Gina Mei for one gave me a prediction of what it was going to be about and what we can expect in the story. It also could tell us and express why she is cooking for one. She could be learning new things like cooking by herself which could mean she lost someone close to her.

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After reading through Gina Mei's essay, "Learning to Cook for One," and using using the pre-reading strategies I just learned, I can predict that the essay is going to be about Gina, who is someone that struggled to eat a proper diet because she couldn't cook for herself and had to deal with struggle of losing her loved one's. However, Gina understood how important it was for her to take of herself, so she eventually learned how to cook after multiple failed attempts.

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After utilizing the Global Pre-Reading scanning for the article, "Learning to Cook for One," I believe that the author Gina Mie is trying to show us that selfcare is valuable and doesn't need to be a trial. She does this by using cooking as a metaphor for all types of selfcare. She goes through the stages of learning to love to cook and care for herself, and she comes to understand that caring yourself not only helps you but everyone around you as well.

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After using the pre reading strategies for Gina Mei's "Learning to Cook for One," I can conclude that Gina is going to learn how to cook alone, I believe she is going to do this as a way of healing after going through hardships in her life. I think she will learn self care through cooking to help her heal as she learns to cook for just her self.

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After using the pre reading strategies for this article, "Learning to cook for one", I can predict that the main idea is Gina using the skill of cooking to help heal. She went through a rough situation and now has to get used to cooking for one person, spending time alone, and coping by herself.

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After using the Pre-Reading strategies, there are a few things I have noticed about, "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei. I predict that this book is about a lady that is learning how to cook alone after a year of turmoil. She is learning to spend time by herself, improving herself, through the art of cooking.

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After using the pre-reading strategies, I can predict that the essay "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, is about how she had to go through the loss of a loved one and had to learn how to cope with the idea of cooking only for herself. When I read the conclusion of the text, I can infer that in the end she finds enjoyment in cooking again and that it is one of the steps to her self care.

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After reading Part 1 "Pre Reading Prediction", it made me more mindful of how to know what the story and argument is about. Especially in the couple first and last paragraphs. Gina Mei, was complaining if being alone was all that life was giving her. Since everything that was eaten or shared, always included multiple people. So when she was experiencing difficult times, she came to realization that she needs to take care of her self, and that if she doesn't have anyone, she will always have her self. Towards the end the cooking book helped her understand that being alone didn't mean anything bad, but that its a way of taking care of your self and having self-love.

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After utilizing pre-reading strategies covered prior to this assignment, I predict that "Learning to Cook for One' by Gina Mei is about her experience learning to cope with the idea of eating alone, and learning how to move past loss and tragedy. As said in the excerpt, she was plagued with loss and sorrow, which undermined her love for cooking so much so she nearly lost any passion for it. She sees cooking as something to be done for others, but now that she doesn't have others to cook for, she can't help but feel sorrow.

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I predict from "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei shows her life and feelings on how she self heals and slowly shows herself that she matters. She heals and grows through her self care which first incudes cooking.

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At first while looking through the article the first thing that stood out to me was the heading, the instant idea I took out of that was that this article has to be about cooking, and for who? I thought to myself for the same person who's describing her emotions in the first few paragraphs. As I read through I noticed she looks up to a certain person "Anita Lo". She's fighting through her negative diminishing thoughts and eventually comes to the realization that all her life she's been doing things to fulfill other peoples emotions; not focusing on her self and giving herself the treatment she would to others. I really likes this article because it brings to the table the perspective of the person we read from, she puts every intricate detail into how she's feeling without leaving anything out and I think that is what makes this article whole; she talks from the heart and not one second from the article does she part from that.

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After using Pre-Reading strategy, included all three steps, I predict that the short story," Learning To Cook For One" by Gina Mei is mostly about learning self-care by starting with cooking. There are three bold quotes in the article. The first give an idea about that she was living alone and like to cook for other but not only for herself. The second quotes states that she don't have much patience to cook and eat alone. The third quote defines that she is confused and sad when her close ones died, and other people are asking her what would you do to live? and at the end of the article, Gina is inspired by Anita Lo, a great chef, and enjoy cooking a meal for one.

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After using the pre-reading strategy, I predict that the the article "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, is about learning how to cope or adapt to cook only for yourself. After reading the headers, I can infer that the auther went through some hardships with someone or is at a loss with someone. And is most likely learning to adapt to only cook for herself after no longer needing to cook for another person or learning how to cook again. Another important item I can infer, is that when cooking alone, it can be easy to not cook healthy for oneself.

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After utilizing pre-reading strategies and throughly scanning over important details in the text, I've reached a reasonable prediction to "Learning to Cook for One." It seems as though Gina Mei has lost a loved one as well as a will to cook. When that loved one died, so did the motivation cook. When someone cooks, it's usually meant for more than one person; the art of cooking is meant to be shared, not kept to one person. Since that loved one is dead, she feels cooking is a burden. Over time, Gina Mei learns to be one with cooking and instead of holding a grudge against it, she embraces the things it's able to provide her with. It also seems she takes care of everyone but herself. I predict this will be a self-healing path she takes through the art of cooking.

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After using the pre-reading strategies, I predict "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei is going to explain how Gina Mei will have a difficult time finding herself through cooking. Based on the sub- headings she hasn't had the best luck with cooking and has found a book that she can finally relate to and understand what the true meaning of cooking is to her.

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Using the pre-reading strategies, Gina Mei will struggle with the idea of cooking by herself because of pain of a loss, but overtime she will change that pain to a form of love into cooking.

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By using the strategies for pre-reading, I predict "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei will be about a woman was trying to cook for herself, from the subheading I can somewhat know that she was losing her interest in cooking after a terrible year, maybe someone that important to her life left her alone or passed away. When I kept reading, I understood why she called it a terrible year because starting with someone she loved unexpectedly passed away from a stroke, and after that, someone else she loved also ended up in the ER, all of that made her lose all of her interest in cooking. By continuing reading, I can make the judgment that she spends most of her time taking care of others but does not spend any time taking care of and thinking for herself. But she realized cooking is the first step to start loving herself and cooking has the power to change your mood.

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After using the pre-reading strategies, I predict that this reading will be about a woman who has been through some trauma possibly and has been alone for most of her life learning and enjoying how to cook by herself. I think she either lost somebody, or has just been lonely her entire life and has decided to learn how to cook and be inspired by it.

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After pre-reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that this journey she faces while learning to cook for herself is both literal and figurative in a sense. I believe she is learning how to do things for herself, maybe after getting out of a reliant relationship with someone and I believe on her journey of "learning to cook for one" she will find herself more and going on a self-love journey.

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After pre-reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that this journey she faces while learning to cook for herself is both literal and figurative in a sense. I believe she is learning how to do things for herself, maybe after getting out of a reliant relationship with someone and I believe on her journey of "learning to cook for one" she will find herself more and going on a self-love journey.

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After pre-reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that Mei will explain why she is learning to cook for one. Based on the sub-headings I found while skimming, she hates cooking for herself and is writing this to explain why this hatred for cooking for herself had to change, and why it is so important to take care of herself.

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After using the pre-reading strategies, and as I look at the title of the article, I can predict that it will be about cooking. It is also said that she’s had a terrible year, so I would assume she’s going to explain why it was so bad. From the first sentence, I get the feeling she’s frustrated about not having cooked for herself in months. And from the very last sentence, I can come to the conclusion that she thinks of cooking as self-care and will genuinely enjoy cooking.

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Putting these strategies to use, I found myself asking a lot of questions, being concerned for Gina Mei as I was relating to some of her writing. From the introduction itself I was able to predict that it was looking as if someone close to Mei left her alone or passed away leaving her behind to eat or live by herself, but that wasn't entirely true. As you keep looking, she states, "I wil learn to enjoy cooking again." after writing about a terrible year. Maybe someone did pass away, and it impacted her negativrly she maybe fell into a depression where she wasn't feeding herself and or lost the motivation to cook for herself and eat it. As she tells her audience a small chunk of her life, you can't help but ask if she was an only child, and you spent your Childhood alone, wouldn't you now want to be more social? Did Mei ever gain social skills where she can go out and make friends so she won't be as lonely? However, she continues with writing that that she enjoys her time alone, it's her safe-place amd she feels moree confident in being alone, that she yhinks its less depressing than eating alone at home, how so? Will she mind if people stare and talk once they see her eating alone in public? My prediction is half close, she did lose someone, and fell into a depression where she had to learn how to prioritize herself, but with her being an only child and enjoying being alone, wouldn't you think she already knew how to properly take care of herself? How come it had to take a tragedy for her to see how important it is to eat home-made food and feed yourself on a daily basis. Was it her small push to motivate her to learn to love something again and not for someone else, but for herself alone? Mei was an insteresting author as its complicated to understand howa person can go from loving to do something, and continue to do so, yet have little to no effort or motication to try and do it again.

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Using the strategies that I have obtained from the list provided above, I pre-read the text and the title. Just from reading the title, I predict that Gina will start learning to cook for herself. I also predict that she might have faced some tough times recently. I think that due to said tough times, she will find comfort and a peace of mind in having to cook for herself.

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I think that Gina finds a love for cooking for just herself and overcomes some of the sadness and that she is facing. And by reading the last paragraph, I think that cooking becomes therapeutic and enjoyable to Gina and she becomes inspired.

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By using a few strategies given for pre-reading, I predict that the short story "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei will be a story about learning how to take time for herself and focus on her needs, starting out with cooking. By reading the first and final paragraph of the text, you can make the judgment that she spends most of her time caring for others, rather than focusing on what she wants. She begins realizing this as she is making food for, I am assuming because she is standing in her mother's kitchen, her and her mother. Then, by observing the title, you can see that she begins to learn and change her ways to begin her own self-care. Then, by looking at the subheading, you can see that she had had a "terrible year" and that she is figuring out why it is important to learn how and why to cook alone from a cookbook. Which clearly shows what most of the text will be about and why.

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After reading the pre-reading tips I think that "Learning to Cook for One" will be a sad story of Gina living alone, therefore only needed to cook for one. 

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After reading the pre-reading tips I think that "Learning to Cook for One" will be a sad story of Gina living alone, therefore only needed to cook for one. 

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After applying pre-reading strategies and analyzing "Learning to Cook for One", I predict that after her "terrible year", Gina will embark on a journey toward healing and growth through self care in the act of cooking for herself.

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After using the pre reading strategies listed above I read "learning to cook for one" by Gina Mei. The prediction I can make from using the pre reading strategies is that after coming to her realization that she hasn't cooked for herself in a long time she finds the motivation to start making meals for herself and feeling happy.

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I predict that Gina will learn about cooking for herself instead of for others and discovering a sort of joy in prioritizing herself, or learning to recover from hardships that have isolated her.

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I am using a mix of strategies, so I started by reading the title "Learning to Cook for One" along with the first and final paragraph. So from doing said strategies I think that this is a story about self growth in multiple ways, learning about ways to heal yourself and grow.

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I predict Gina's learning to cook for one will be a type of healing for her and learning self care.

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After reading part of the introduction as well as some of the headers/ highlighted captions put forth throughout "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that Gina might be struggling with life and some of the things that may have came up in hers and maybe cooking might be an outlet for her to cope and find more meaning going forward. I predict she does in the end.

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After reading part of the introduction as well as some of the headers/ highlighted captions put forth throughout "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that Gina might be struggling with life and some of the things that may have came up in hers and maybe cooking might be an outlet for her to cope and find more meaning going forward. I predict she does in the end.

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After pre-reading the text i predicted that mei would be going through some hard times and that she would not enjoy cooking for herself but would eventually come to conclusion that she would like it in the end

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I predict that Gina will learn to enjoy being alone and cooking for herself and view it differently.

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One" I predict that Anita Lo will inspire Gina Mei to get in the habit of loving to cook even if it's just going to be a meal for herself. I think Gina will pick up better habits of self care and will enjoy doing so instead of thinking it's a chore.

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Based off the reading, and using the global pre reading strategies. I believe that Gina Mei will began to learn new recipes and cook for herself. I also believe she is going to start taking care of herself in many ways. including cooking for herself.

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I predict based off using the pre-reading strategies given that the article is going to be able Gina learning how to transition from cooking for two or more people to being able to only cook for herself. I believe based on this lesson she is going to learn how important cooking is to her as well as her mental health and self care.

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I predict that Gina Mei will talk about how she figured out how to cope with loss by cooking and using it as a form of self-care

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One", I predict that Mei will share her own personal story about cooking alone and her journey of self care through that.

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I predict that Mei will share her story on how she changed the way she viewed cooking for yourself from depressing to how its more of a way to love yourself

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One", I predict Gine Mei will start to not only cook for herself more often, but start to enjoy cooking for herself.

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After reading the essay by Gina Mei, I predict that she will continue to learn how to cook as a form of self care. It will help her better herself physically and mentally to life a happier life.

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After reading the introduction and conclusion, it can be inferred that "Learning to Cook for One" is about, not only learning to cook, but specifically learning to cook as self-care and learning to cook only for yourself.

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After reading "learning to cook for one" by Gina Mei My prediction after using the pre reading strategy is Gina is going to start learning how to cook for just herself. She will also be cooking as a type of self care and self healing. 

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After reading "learning to cook for one" by Gina Mei My prediction after using the pre reading strategy is Gina is going to start learning how to cook for just herself. She will also be cooking as a type of self care and self healing. 

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By using the pre reading strategy of intro and conclusion, I am able to make the prediction that the text is about Gina. Who will be talking about her journey of learning to cook for herself. I'll also have to use the looking up words strategy for abetting in the conclusion.

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that she will start to use cooking for herself as a form of healing and self care to help get her back on her feet after a period of difficulty in her life. I predict that using cooking as a form of self-care will inspire her to practice other forms of self-care as well.

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My prediction after reading "Learning to cook for one" by Gina Mei, is that she will start to use cooking as a way to sooth herself as a form of self care. Cooking for herself will better her, both mentally and physically.

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Based on the little information I gathered from reading the title, subtitle, introduction and conclusion, I predict that Gina starts cooking in efforts to improve her mental and physical health. I predict that Gina likely went through something difficult to have her stop cooking and it seems like cooking was likely a passion of hers. It also seems like she went through a point in her life that cooking became more mandatory and less about the love for cooking. It appears at the end of the story that she found the passion of cooking again and decides to make it her “self-care” activity.

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After reading “Learning to cook for one” by Gina Mei. I predict that she will start cooking as a way of gratification, it will help her be one with herself and self soothe her. It will be a way of self love and help with self healing.

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My prediction after reading “Learning to Cook for One” is that Gina is going to better her life and better herself through cooking her own meals, she inferred that she was not in the happiest place overall in life after everything she stated that she went through, and that cooking is going to help better herself mentally and help her find a better and happier, healthier path in life

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My prediction while reading "Learning To Cook For One" was that Gina would "force" herself to stick with learning to cook meals just for herself as a way to give herself the care she felt she was not allowed to ask for as a child and ultimately as an adult. And in the end building the habit will cause a positive impact on her mental health.

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One", I had many thoughts. The story was strong and emotional at the same time. However, seeing how it would help Mei in the long term does make sense. The way that she felt lonely after her loss and a family member in the ER did encourage her to do something by her self. Even though she was uncomfortable she did keep going which is going to make many changes for her.

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My prediction for Gina Mei, after reading her story "Learning to cook for one", is that she'll better her physical and mental health. From using the pre-reading strategies I understood that a lot of Mei's struggles stem from her lack of self-care and through cooking for herself she will find an outlet that will lead her down a path of bettering herself. Through cooking Mei will grow to enjoy taking extra time and energy in taking care of herself while at the same time eating healthier meals. She'll also learn lessons through cooking that can affect her daily life.

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One" By Gina Mei, I predict that she will start to love to cook more solo meals and that she quoted was "a therapeutic thing to do." I also predict that she will start to focus more on herself and her self care.

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After reading about the strategies and after reading "Learning to cook for one" by Gina Mei's, I can predict she would now like cooking and taking more self care of herself. At the beginning she didn't know how to cook she only was able to eat out but that kept getting not affordable and got food poisoned. Then she seen the book after she read it she made connection with the author who mad the cookbook. She realized she needed the self care after seeing loved ones in the ER.

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After reading ''Learning to cook for one'' by Gina Mei's and the pre-reading strategies, I can predict that Gina will learn to enjoy cooking for herself and see it as a form of self-care.

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After reading Gina Mei's essay on "learning to cook for one" I can predict that Gina was selfless. She prioritized the care and love for others. Unfortunately when time came, they passed away and Gina was left to herself. To care for only herself. She also says in her essay that people would ask her "How are you taking care of yourself during these times?" that this question baffled/puzzled her. I predict that Gina had lost someone very close to her and is now learning to take care of herself. I also predict that her sharing her story and helping others realize they are not alone, could also help her on her journey of "learning to Cook for One".

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In Gina Mei's essay"Learning to Cook for One”, it's important to practice self care and how she uses it to help her cope with her loss. It teaches her mind set to look forward to her day and gain a new hobby of learning new recipes.

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One" by writer Gina Mei, shows how important self-care is. She started to cook for herself when she has one of her loved ones in the hospital. That is when she started to realize that taking care for yourself is very important. It is very inspiring to see that someone can do things on their own like take care of themselves. Having a loved one in the hospital is truly heartbreaking, I can also relate to her as I had one of my loved ones in the hospital.

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei and using the pre reading strategies , I can make a few predictions. You can infer that she wants to take care of herself by reading the title. I can predict that she is having a rough year and is learning how to care for herself, but doesn't know how too. She will eventually use cooking as a method to show self love to herself.

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After reading “Learning to cook for one” Gina eventually realizes how important self-care is as she is cooking. Once Gina had seen so many of her loved ones in the hospital and how they looked before passing, she put thought into how she was taking care of herself. Gina mostly started to think about it once someone pointed out that she was slowly killing herself by being in the hospital and not taking care of her own health. After a tough year she decided to turn her life around and take care of herself by cooking her own dinner which is a start by nurturing her body back into a healthy state.

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After reading both reading strategies part 1 and Gina Mei's "Learning to Cook for One" Mei is learning how to prioritize self-care in it's simplest forms. After finding out about her loved one's in the hospital she started to cook for herself and after some time became to enjoy it.

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After pre-reading 'Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that Mei will find out how important self-care is. It's important for everyone to practice self-care, whether it's showering, drinking water, brushing your teeth, and yes, eating. Gina Mei seems to think taking care of other people is more important than taking care of yourself, which is not true. In order to love someone else, you need to love yourself first. It's the same for caring for others as well. Mei has to go to the hospital to see loved ones as they're dying, and I think that's what got her to realize that self-care is important so you don't have as many health declinations.

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In Gina Mei’s essay “Learning to cook for one”, she is learning to prioritize what’s important in her life, such as eating, even if it’s alone, it’s important to be able to “self-care yourself” as not doing so can lead to the declination of health. She makes time to cook for herself, so she doesn’t end up like her loved ones. Going to the hospital all the time because of the neglect to their healths. Making generational changes.

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After pre-reading, "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I predict that Mei is learning how to prioritize self-care. When you live by yourself, it's easy to either forget or simply ignore personal care. Gina Mei strikes me as a person who grew up a people pleaser, internalizing that other people's needs are more important than her own. She views taking care of others, and by extension cooking for them, as more important than it would be for herself. While putting others first can be a good thing, one must not forget they're just as essential. Taking care of others is harder when you're not taking care of yourself.

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In using Pre-Reading Strategies, pulling away from Gina Meis' essay. My main Focus was on her background and Mei's environment. Touching basis with some of my background I was raised in a similar manner. I learned how to do most things on my own. Gina expresses life on her own. We both ride the same boat. Most of you may know, when you learn to be on your own, and process small or even large events in a different meaner. Thus you make major connections with-in yourself. Ginas' essay embraces journeys and learning experiences throughout her life. Among Gina's essay, Anita Lo, Author of Solo's Cook book. Shows connections Mei makes towards self-care within Los' cook book. It also gives light on what I think were stepping stones up the mountain in which were steps of self-care. My prediction on Gina Mei's essay, Apart from her struggles and rough passages. I do believe later on down the road, Gina will have much better process and goal achieving structures. Along with much better steps to practice self- caring.

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After reading the pre reading strategies, Gina experienced a sudden death of a loved one and then ended up with other people she loved and ended up in the hospital sick. After that, she started reevaluating her life choices. Gina realized the importance was that she needed to take care of herself better than she was. Gina decided to start cooking for herself and helped her realize that cooking for yourself can be therapeutic and an act of love for self. Self-care is a basic necessity in life and if we let that go, it can be disruptive on our lives.

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After going through pre reading stradegies on Gina Mei's essay "Learning to Cook for One," I can predict that Gina finally finds a way to commit to self care after realizing its importance. Although she may not like cooking for herself, she learned that cooking for yourself can be an act of self love and can be theraputic. In the end, I think that Lo taught Gina that cooking for yourself can be a method of self care, If not cooking, It can possibly help you realize that self care is important and a necessity.

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In Gina Mei’s digital article on Electric Lit, ‘Learning to Cook for One’ the author describes how hard it is cooking for one with all of life’s tribulations and how easy it is to let yourself go malnourished when you are depressed. The author has been used to being alone her whole life has grown accustomed to cooking for one. “I don’t think cooking an elaborate meal for one is worth the time or effort” she states however she loves cooking but has found that cooking for one can be a game of portions and patience. She describes it feeling like it’s a math equation and that the whole marketing strategy behind food is catered to families and couples-most recipes aren’t made for one person. She states everyone must eat and that there is a good book by Anita Lo called Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One. Mei states self-care is not a hobby it is a must, we all need to practice self-care and self-love.

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Using the pre-reading strategies, I predict that Gina Mei has gone through some sort of tragedy (possibly the loss of a loved one), which has resulted in her living alone. I think that I will learn about her new experience in learning how to care for herself by nourishing her body with healthy and fresh food (that needs preparation). However, I think this story will go beyond food preparation, and I will learn about her healing process as well. Food in our cultural is a usually a shared/social experience and that it can be difficult or lonely to eat alone.

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From the reading I predict that Mei in time will learn and see how cooking is fueling not only her body, but her mind and soul. Mei may find that selfish acts of self care are important to cope with difficult times in life, even though she has been alone for so long you can get lost in doing just the basics for yourself. It seems like cooking will be Mei's first realization and step in prioritizing acts of selfcare.

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After using the pre-reading strategies, I learned a lot about the author already. How they turned what was once a dreadful task into something much more meaningful and eventually enjoyable. Going through the rough stages in life can make you appreciate what you have and make you create the best of your situation. I think that is displayed here and I can predict that she will explain how she got from one low point in her life to another higher level.

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After learning about the different strategies involved in reading, I can predict that she will likely succeed in her endeavors to cook with satisfied heart. (Side note: I think that people might be put off by the fact that this "Lo" person that she talks about wasn't built up enough for me to necessarily believe everything she says to be true. Maybe next time the author should spend more time working on making her source more credible.

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After learning several pre-reading strategies, and reading the text, "Learning to Cook for One", by Gina Mei, I predict that she will eventually grow to enjoy cooking for herself or eventually do so more often. While she may be struggling currently, especially when it comes to taking care of herself. She may eventually let go of the habits, engrained into her since birth and instead realize that taking care of herself is just as vital as those around her. 

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After learning several pre-reading strategies, and reading the text, "Learning to Cook for One", by Gina Mei, I predict that she will eventually grow to enjoy cooking for herself or eventually do so more often. While she may be struggling currently, especially when it comes to taking care of herself. She may eventually let go of the habits, engrained into her since birth and instead realize that taking care of herself is just as vital as those around her. 

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After learning about the pre reading strategies I think I can predict that by Mei cooking more and focusing on her self she will feel better all around.

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After reading "Learning to Cook for One" by Gina Mei, I believe that she won't like cooking for herself for some time. Although i she will soon find herself and her love for cooking meals for herself. She started to learn/ love selfceare and succeed in cooking meals.

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Using the pre-reading strategies we just learned, one of my predictions is that Gina Mei has loss the meaning and motivation of self-care after losing her mother and loved ones. As an only child, she was able to develop self-care by enjoying time to herself and being self-dependent, but after one of her toughest years, she loss that motivation. In hopes that Anita Lo will become her motivation, Gina Mei will soon discover the meaning of self-care again whether it'd be through cooking, choosing to be healthy, or maintaining a clean environment.

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A journey in life through cooking for one

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A journey in life through cooking for one

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After reading “Learning to Cook for One” by Gina Mei, I can predict that the author is a young woman who, in the midst of struggling with the loss of a loved one, is trying to find her own purpose and place in the world. From the topic sentence (“I am stabbing a sweet potato to try and figure out what self-care looks like”) and the paragraphs directly before this sentence, I can infer that one way Mei will come to terms with her sense of loneliness and loss is through working to find joy in cooking for herself again, rather than viewing it as a chore. The opening paragraphs of Mei’s essay show me that rather than simply explaining intellectual reasons about why it is important to cook for oneself, Mei is prepared to share her own journey of what made her realize this, with all of its heartbreaks and triumphs.