Response to Tovani Chapter 6-End

I chose to do the text to self comprehension strategy on page 125. I wanted to do this activity because it  allowed me to practice one of the more important reading strategies: applying text to yourself. It can be very hard to find similarities between oneself and a text. I find it hard to relate to literature from my American Lit class because all the texts were written before 1900. Therefore, doing the text to self connection while I was reading an assigned chapter allowed me to break down some of the barriers that arise when I read literature that was written a couple hundred years before my time.

I liked the way the activity was organized because it was a simple handout that required me to dig into the text in order to find passages that I could relate to myself. A really hard part with old literature is understanding what the author is trying to say, so by finding three quotes that I could relate to myself, I was also able to better understand what the author was trying to accomplish in the story. I will definitely make copies of the activities Tovani has provided in the back of the text book because I believe they will be of great use to all of my future students.