When you create any kind of art, you issue a contract, though you can't decide and dictate its terms, because people who might observe or read your work will do it on their own terms and you have no control over that.
But as Andrew Light, a philosopher at George Mason University who specializes in environmental ethics and public policy, observed after reading your letter: "You identify yourself as not just an environmentalist but an ardent environmentalist.
You can also assess your student's knowledge of comprehension strategies by asking them questions while reading, getting them to give you a summary of what they have just read and by observing them as they read.
Get a meteorology book, and read it while observing the storm.
It read: "Please observe Public Order Act restrictions.
Davydova, it read, had observed that the base had emptied out.
On the bench I was free: I could read, eat, observe the world around me, sink into a pleasant reverie or even catch forty winks.
"They could see, in real-time, what the operators were seeing on their screens and could manipulate the system," the report read, and observe how operators responded to requests.
The portrayal of McNamara the man validated what I had read and observed many years earlier.
My approach to comics, when I was starting, was to look at them, read them, observe them, and look at what was being done in the field, and more importantly look at what wasn't being done.
