So yesterday me and the other guy I work with were talking about books for the next session and I was telling him about what books I was probably going to introduce and do units with the students. Then we were talking about loves of reading. He was saying that he didn't really enjoy reading until later. I admitted that I didn't really start loving reading again until recently. He asked what turned me off of reading. And I was telling him that I never stopped reading, I just was no longer reading at my level. Reading illustrated classics and comic books would fill my literacy time.
We then got talking about college texts and I was telling him that either the Odyssey or Beowulf were my favorite books from my freshman semester. He was intrigued and so I showed him the reading list for literary traditions fall semester or freshman year and his reaction was "well that's one way to welcome students to college."
I had to laugh thinking about the Iliad and the pages that had these "highlighter tails" as I would later name them from drifting off mid sentence highlighter still pressed to the paper.
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