Performative Literacy

            While reading the Performative Literacy article, I find that I can relate to all traits in a different way, especially in willing to change my mind and appreciating others’ views. Although I am a little afraid to take risks at times because I fear that what I say is too different from what others say and my ideas will get put down, I typically speak out to get different interpretations. I do believe that I have the capacity for sustained focused attention, which I understand can be difficult. I also believe I am a flexible reader, as in accepting if what I thought was true about a text was not. For every book I read, I always go back and re-read a difficult part in the text because I accept that I did not fully understand what I read, which qualifies me as a good reader because I am willing to accept that I either lost focus momentarily or got distracted. I believe that Finding different interpretations and concepts in between the lines of a book, rather than accepting what is there for what it is is something I do frequently while I read. I thoroughly enjoy finding different meanings behind texts. These strategies give me a more in-depth view of what I can do to push myself more while I read. For example, gaining more confidence in taking risks  and accepting a contradicting text is something I must work on. Depending on the text, I read differently because I typically look for deeper meanings in journal entries or blogs or nonfiction novels, versus not really looking for deeper meanings in nonfiction books.

            In class this year, I did annotate novels as I read, but not as much as I should have. In middle school, I was introduced to the concept of annotating but my teachers did not pay much attention to it. I struggled in thorough annotations because I did not want to slow down while reading, but I still liked annotating because it made me think more. This experience will affect my future reading strategies because it gives me more insight on how to properly annotate.