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Studying Literature

  "The best readers I know carefully mark every worthwhile thing they read. They are well read because they read well." --John Snider Once upon a time I was a high schooler that loved reading, so naturally I took English classes that required a lot of reading. I enjoyed the discussions and definitely learned a lot about reading. Later in college, I was trying on different majors before I ultimately graduated in Technical Writing. For a year I was a literature major, until I realized about the only thing I could do with that is teach. I had already tried Elementary Education and knew I didn't want to do that. (Funny, since now I teach all the time and love it!) I wrote a lot of papers about books through high school and college. A lot. In the process I spent tons of time trying to remember what I had read and searching for quotes to include. Out of college I still loved to read, and I got involved in neighborhood book groups. I wanted discussions like I had had in sc...