In a Ted Talk by Jacqueline Woodson in April 2019, she tells the importance of reading slowly and cherishing a book. She reminds us to remember the weeks, years, or even decades an author spends on a book, and how people should respect the author by cherishing their book. Furthermore, there are also academic benefits to reading a book slowly. Last year, I learned the importance of slow reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, in my English class, we were given the book Whirligig<\/em> by Paul Fleischman to read together as a class. Before we began reading, I decided to first read the book by myself to first get to know what the book was about and what to expect in class. The first time I read the book, I finished in about an hour, and I decided that I did not like the book. Frankly, I did not like the book since I did not understand the general plot of the story and many details surrounding the plot. Many important parts of the story did not connect together and I did not understand why we would be reading that book together as a class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In class, as we took our time reading and processed every word and detail, my understanding of the book entirely changed. I realized that I only found the book uninteresting and boring because I read too quickly and did not understand all of the plot and details. Furthermore, after rereading the story with my class and taking our time to analyze the story, I saw the true beauty of the story containing various symbols and details. From this experience, I learned to truly cherish books by reading them slowly not only to respect the author, but also for the personal benefit of understanding a book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, when I read a book, I try to take it more slowly by reminding myself of my experience with Whirligig. <\/em>When I do not understand a detail or feel a bit confused, I simply reread a section, and most of the time, the logic becomes clear. I know that I have learned many things connecting to Jacqueline Woodson\u2019s Ted Talk through my own experiences, and I hope that others can also learn the same lesson one way or another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a Ted Talk by Jacqueline Woodson in April 2019, she tells the importance of reading slowly and cherishing a book. She reminds us to remember the weeks, years, or even decades an author spends on a book, and how people should respect the author by cherishing their book. Furthermore, there are also academic benefits … Continue reading Reading Slowly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KIb4-2gh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}