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- Entertainment
- A way to escape reality
- Relaxes your mind
- Freedom of imagination

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2) what does the author mean ,’’the pleasure...is derived from escaping our small, limited and often repetitive lives and entering an exotic elsewhere?”    

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2) what does the author mean ,’’the pleasure...is derived from escaping our small, limited and often repetitive lives and entering an exotic elsewhere?”    

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- exploration of another world and time period
- a break from reality
- gives opportunity to have adventures that is unachievable in real life

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1. What are some topics we can chose from when planning our response
- Personas/ Description
- Themes
-Setting
- Narrative (viewpoint)

2. How can we focus our topic
- Start off with a bunch of ideas
- Narrow down your approach
- Ask yourself why you want to talk about that topic
- Why is it important for you. ( Analyse)

3. How do we gather textual evidence
- Get credible sources for your material
- Indentify common themes
- Categorize the elements
- Higlight setting
- Label the characters/ symbols and metaphors

4. Why is analysis important
- Helps you convince yourself/audience
- Helps you narrow down what is important and what is not

5. What is the purpose of the conclusion
- Sums up your points
- What your hopes are / What point you are trying to get across.

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3 what can we gain from reading fiction specifically? 

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3 what can we gain from reading fiction specifically? 

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- narrow-minded people
- those with difficulties imagining themselves in another person's shoes

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4)what does the author mean when she writes,’’our values and assumptions are challenged; we are invited to empathise with entirely different point of view 

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4)what does the author mean when she writes,’’our values and assumptions are challenged; we are invited to empathise with entirely different point of view 

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-be more open-minded
-learn to put ourselves in another person’s shoes
-our beliefs can be altered
-empathising with others make us a better person

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5) According to the author, what do we look for when we read 

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5) According to the author, what do we look for when we read 

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- To find comfort
- Learn new things without repercussions
- Enriches our life
- Exercise our imagination
- Experiencing a life divorced from reality
- A fantastical world is where we escape from the dreary daily grind
- Free from the daily responsibilities that bogs us down in real life

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1. Why is mental stimulation important ?
-Slow the progress/ even prevent Alzheimer's and Dementia ( prevents your brain losing power)
-Needs exercise
- Examples puzzle games(chess)

2. How does reading help us with vocabulary expansion
- Gain exposure to new words
-Learn new languages, improves the way you stucture sentences

3. How does reading help us with our analytical skills
- Mystery novels- predict the plot.
- Understand the characteristics and behaviour of the characters

4. How does reading help with improving our focus and concentration
- When reading- attention is focused on the story
- Immerse yourself in the world of the author
- Aren't easily distracted by things

5.How does reading help with our writting skills
- Exposed to the well written sentences
- Expansion of vocabulary

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Q1: What benefits did two recent Canadian studies find with regards to reading fiction?

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Q1: What benefits did two recent Canadian studies find with regards to reading fiction?

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- equips us with the resilience to weather through daily life
- makes us kinder
- smarter at making choices
- stop us from making hasty decisions

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Q2: What are the repercussions of the study’s findings for our schools?

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Q2: What are the repercussions of the study’s findings for our schools?

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- Number of students reading decreasing gradually
- don’t enjoy reading
- Issues with accepting other ideas

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Q3: Who would benefit from reading fiction? 

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Q3: Who would benefit from reading fiction? 

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- Young teens
- People who find it hard to express feelings
- people who doesn’t have sympathy
- people who wants to open up their perspective so they are not so orthodox

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Q4: Why does the author describe reading fiction as a ‘dress-rehearsal for life’? 

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Q4: Why does the author describe reading fiction as a ‘dress-rehearsal for life’? 

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- Literature helps to prepare us for the real world
- expose to different ideas about the reality

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Q5: In your opinion, how can reading fiction benefit students in their studies and their future life? 

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Q5: In your opinion, how can reading fiction benefit students in their studies and their future life? 

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- Prepares students for life
- Embrace changes more
- Develop empathy
- improve critical thinking and creativity
- stress relieve