They Say I Say “What’s Motivating this Writer”
I truly enjoyed the first section in this chapter that is entitled “Reading for the Conversation”. The first paragraph on page 173 was all too familiar to me, “after some awkward silences, the class would come up with something we could all agree was an accurate summary of the author’s main thesis… the discussion would often still seem forced.” In my life, I have had many teachers ask this same generic question and proceed to stare at the class expecting…