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Analyzing the Main Point (Thesis) of an Article

Grade Level:

12

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Reading

Topic:

Analyzing the Main Point (Thesis) of an Article

Objective:

Before reading the
article, answer the questions below.
1. The following quotation
presents the main point
of the article: "Villages
like Robib have been
described as leapfroggers:
communities or even
whole countries in the
developing world that are
using information and
communication technologies
to leapfrog directly from
being an agricultural to an
information economy."
From the quotation above,
what does the term leapfrog
mean? What two words
make up this compound word? What metaphor (image of one thing
representing another) do you get from this term? The image of a
__________________________ represents _
Explain how one thing could represent the other.

2. What do you think an agricultural economy is? What is an information ~~"7"~ _
3. Even before you read the article, do you know (or can you guess) what type .:
economy usually comes between an agricultural and an information economy
that is being skipped over in these "leapfrogging" countries?

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