Play by Reginald Rose Teaching Activities by Rivka Lewenstein

Identifying Parts and the Whole = Explaining how the parts function together 
within the whole
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Appendix 2 — HOTS
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Parts and the Whole in Your Working Life
4.
When you graduate school and begin working, you will 
find that the skill of Identifying Parts and the Whole is 
extremely important for you. For example, if you are part 
of a staff / team, you have to be able to identify what role / 
function each staff or team member has, and specifically, 
what role / function you have within the group. That is the 
only way the staff / team can function together as a whole. 
List another way that the skill can be useful to you, no 
matter which profession you are in.
5.
Now we’ll take a look at specific professions. Choose at 
least four of the professions below (or three professions 
plus an additional profession that you are interested in 
studying) and explain how the skill of Identifying Parts 
and the Whole could be useful in each field.
Engineering – Banking / Finance –
Architecture – Teaching – Medicine – Law –
Cooking – Writing – Business Management
Useful Vocabulary:
element
part
component
whole
belongs
separate
item
unity
breakdown
break something 
down / up (into 
parts)
overall picture
the big picture
identify
function
role
contribute
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