Questions for Active Reading p.73

1. What experience did Smiley have that changed her beliefs about chores? At what point in her essay does she describe this experience? What would the impact of that experience be on you, as a reader, if she had described it some place else in the essay?¨

The experience when Smiley started doing horsework changed her beliefs about chores. She describes that experience in the middle of the essay and I think that if she would have described the experience earlier in the essay I wouldn't have started to get all the questions against her thoughts, that I think she want us to get.

2. What kinds of reasons and evidence does Smiley offer to support her argument? Do you consider these reasons and edidence to be authoritative? What does her choise of reasons and evidence reveal about Smiley's intended audience?

Smiley uses reasons and evidence that she have experienced herself. She give examples from her own growth, her husbands growht and experience that she have recieved from other people. I think the reasons and evidence are authoritative. Regarding to her choises of reasons and evidence I think her intended audience are people who have children, because in the end of the essay she gives proposals for parents about what to do and what she thinks that a parent should claim of their child.