Chapter 3: Patricia Osborne

Gallagher makes an interesting point in over analyzing reading assignments. Some students need to have some guidance while reading a book, but it does not require a daily lesson on tearing apart each and every chapter. It has always been frustrating as a student to have an instructor take a novel that I found interesting, but stop me throughout my reading process to discuss one chapter at a time. Even as I read this book, which was given at the beginning of the year, I was able to freely read through the material without the pressure of needing to complete and analyze each chapter. I was allowed to read this during SSR and let myself become absorbed with the material. While I am not a big fan of individually separating the units, as I feel there is a great loss of content only reading individual chapters, I was allowed to freely read through the book and find the value of the text.