reading strategies

  Throughout this challenging novel of Purple Hibiscus, I have learned many reading strategies to fully understand the text and remain completely interested in the novel. One thing that helps me is annotating. This helps me to not only remember my ideas about the book, but it makes me really think about what the author is trying to portray through the text. I like to highlight important phrases and concepts, and I also like to highlight quotes that I really like. Then, I write out my ideas about the highlighted portions in the margins. This helps me to really read the novel instead of just skimming over the text and not truly understanding what the author is trying to portray.
    The only problems I have had is missing some of the thing that are important throughout the text. I usually get most to all of the important details, but I do miss some sometimes. When this happens, it's not a big deal at all because we go over the major ideas in class. It helps to talk about the ideas we noticed in our tables, but the formal discussions help the most. This helps for me to realize new ideas and different sides to some of the concepts throughout the novel.