Examining the Reading

Read “Alone Together” and answer the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

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1. Reasons Explain why text messaging has become the “connection of choice” and how people can be “alone together.”

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2. Disadvantages What are some of the disadvantages of constant connection?

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3. Explanation How have today’s teenagers become “confused about companionship”?

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4. Vocabulary Explain the meaning of each of the following words as it is used in the reading: surreptitious (para. 2), titrate (6), intrusive (9), predicated (11), and propositions (13).

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