AP 23.230 Before you Read or Write – Contextualize!

con·tex·tu·al·ize (verb)
place or study in context; making sense of information from the situation or location in which the information was found.
example of contextualize – “keep feminist perspectives in mind when reading a novel written during the women’s civil rights movement“.

con·text  (noun)
the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

example of context “the decision to reduce the labor was taken within the context of planned cuts in spending”

Similar:
circumstances, conditions, surroundings, factors, state of affairs, situation, environment, milieu, setting, background, backdrop

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The opening crawl scene gives you the setting or back drop on what is going on before the movie starts!

 


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