you will identify an important theme from the book, consider how it fits into the trajectory of learning in this class, and reflect on its significance for you. The purpose of the assignment is for you to demonstrate reading comprehension, creatively synthesize ideas from the text in your own words, and bring them into conversation with ideas from other contexts in your life. You are free to be creative—please show me something I might not have noticed about the text, and/or about you!- from my teacher