Reading non-fiction in a big deal in high school these days.  It’s a large part of what the testing is all about.  And as a child of the 80s and 90s, I’ve always understood that reading was fundamental.  But teaching reading and comprehension is far from easy.

So I was kind of excited to find this video of a professor doing a “close read” of an essay by the late David Foster Wallace.  It’s good teaching and it’s good literature.  I’m so thankful for teachers who taught me how to mark things up when reading.  This guy (and the man he’s reading) is a good example of it.

By the way: go see The End of the Tour if you get the chance.  It could be the best couple of hours you’ll spend in a theater at the tail end of this summer.  It’s in a totally different category than dinosaurs and sentient robots.