Launching Interpretation Book Clubs

Teaching point Today I want to teach you that as readers sharpen their reading and thinking skills, the develop the eyes to not only see more in a text, but to make more significance. They pa more attention as they read because they trust that they notice thing. for a reason and expect to make something of observation others just pass by.

I wonder… I think reading and living interpretively are similar.

You only make a bridge where there is a river. --African Proverb Listen Interpretively

Paperwork Dave comes for me the next day. He has snow in his eyebrows. We drive in the red rattling car to a new place. Refugee Resettlement Center, Dave calls it. It’s warm there, With many chairs And many more people, All colors and shapes. It’s my job to answer A bored lady’s questions. Her fingers bounce on a machine with may buttons while she stares at a bright box. Her fingernails are shiny red, the color of blood, and I feel sorry for her bad fortune.

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Homework Readers, for homework, you’ll read and also write about your reading. You will probably be reading your club book for a bit, and then perhaps your club may have decided that you also keep another book going—that’s up to your club.