Reading Actively

January 2oth – Active Reading Literature

In early years in life, you learn how to read but looking back I ponder on the idea of did I get the right teaching? The more I read in the book, the more furious I got, not only with myself but also teachers in the past. Questions like reading actively? When I was younger or really in high school too. I didn’t know what reading actively meant. Since reading these last couple of pages and the description it gives on reading actively. I have came to an understanding on what it really means. Not only can you read actively within the book but you can also paint or other expressions of what the text means. Like the saying in class and in English classes everywhere “Getting to know a story, a play, or a poem can be enjoyable in much the same way that getting to know another person is-if you take the time and put in the effort.” What my problem in the past was I wasn’t allowing myself enough time to read actively or just to engage at all. I rushed though the moments of literature I should have been paying attention. Depending on where you are at in life depends on what you get out of what you read is a common statement made by teachers and students. I believe that one hundred percent because this whole semester my life was turned upside down from wrecks to tragedies with my family and my best friends. The point in my life sucked and at the moment I didn’t feel like reading actively or really reading at all. In some regards I just wanted time to stop and let my wounds heal. But I have learned from the literature class and the essay at the beginning of the class that literature is part of your life. You are writing a page of your book everyday. So what I am trying to say is this reading actively depends on where you are in life and also how you read the text. Do you read the text with an open mind or do you close your mind to just what your selfish desires want. Doing this post over has been good not saying that what I did was right but sometimes there’s upsides to doing wrong. Meaning I have gotten more out of this post then before and truly didn’t think I would at all. This post has taught me to not only read literature I want but also engage in other literature such as This Blessed House, Old Man with Wings, traveling onion and so many more. The second thing that this post has taught me is to engage in other ways painting, acting a part of the text out, just actively reading every part of the stories.