Rhetorician Secrets
Tip #5) Read
Read, and Love It.
Honestly, the book in this picture was Salt, and I really didn't like it much(understatement). But I read the book anyways, and I annotated it, and I came to class prepared.
We did a couple things with the book, including an essay, which I didn't do that bad on.
Everything that we were required to read, we did something in class with it. Somethings I did enjoy, like 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe, and somethings I did not enjoy, including 'Salt,' but the teacher wouldn't have assigned it IF we were not going to do anything with it.
And suppose we have a Socratic Seminar; it is very easy to distinguish the people who read the book and who didn't. And it is even easier to distinguish those who read to book to get it done, and those who dissected it with a pair of tweezers and surgical glasses. Of course that's a metaphor, but the point is across that it isn't enough to just read it, but you have to understand it.
The times that I didn't come prepared or read the text for a Socratic Seminar, I felt like I had no idea what I was talking about. A few of the Fredrick Douglass chapters, I had read a day too late. So I began to make references to an earlier portion of the book, and looked really confused when they were talking about when he left town and finally escaped the slave life.
Then another Seminar on transcendentalism, or peace and tranquility, I did very well on. I had read the text for comprehension and I ended up with an A.
Lesson: read.
But ---- just to make it confusing ----
Don't only read it! Annotate the text. I swear, at 2 am in the morning, it will take you an extra minute to write down your thoughts and make it easier the next day, in comparison to spending twenty minutes trying to figure out what you were thinking last night, and instead just rereading the text.
Read it, read it well, and annotate.
It will definitely help the next day.
And therefore, like the above picture, you actually CAN put a heart on the book.
Tip #5) Read
Read, and Love It.
Honestly, the book in this picture was Salt, and I really didn't like it much(understatement). But I read the book anyways, and I annotated it, and I came to class prepared.
We did a couple things with the book, including an essay, which I didn't do that bad on.
Everything that we were required to read, we did something in class with it. Somethings I did enjoy, like 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe, and somethings I did not enjoy, including 'Salt,' but the teacher wouldn't have assigned it IF we were not going to do anything with it.
And suppose we have a Socratic Seminar; it is very easy to distinguish the people who read the book and who didn't. And it is even easier to distinguish those who read to book to get it done, and those who dissected it with a pair of tweezers and surgical glasses. Of course that's a metaphor, but the point is across that it isn't enough to just read it, but you have to understand it.
The times that I didn't come prepared or read the text for a Socratic Seminar, I felt like I had no idea what I was talking about. A few of the Fredrick Douglass chapters, I had read a day too late. So I began to make references to an earlier portion of the book, and looked really confused when they were talking about when he left town and finally escaped the slave life.
Then another Seminar on transcendentalism, or peace and tranquility, I did very well on. I had read the text for comprehension and I ended up with an A.
Lesson: read.
But ---- just to make it confusing ----
Don't only read it! Annotate the text. I swear, at 2 am in the morning, it will take you an extra minute to write down your thoughts and make it easier the next day, in comparison to spending twenty minutes trying to figure out what you were thinking last night, and instead just rereading the text.
Read it, read it well, and annotate.
It will definitely help the next day.
And therefore, like the above picture, you actually CAN put a heart on the book.