Read Bedford Reader, Ch. 1, Critical Reading: Learning from Other Writers: Focus on the chart, pg. 23, Questions for Examining an Image: Seeing the Big Picture, Analysis, Interference, Synthesis and Evaluation. 
Write a one page critical reflection on this chart.  Always try to make connections to anything you have read that comes to mind that could fall into any of these categories and try to reflect on any short stories or novels  where you saw the big picture, could make an inference, synthesize or evaluate.