Before Sayyid Qutb became a leading theorist of violent jihad, he was a little-known Egyptian writer sojourning in the United States, where he attended a small teachers college on the Great Plains.

To discuss means to talk or write about a subject in detail. It's good to be able to discuss stories and books with other people and to share views and ideas on them. When discussing stories you might ...

As we read, we naturally make predictions (guesses) about things like what is going to happen next or what does this word mean. We use clues in what we have already read to make these predictions.