Reading the sources that have been provided to us has expanded my knowledge through this course. It has helped me when it came to practicing my active reading. As Susan Gilroy stated, “Get in the habit of hearing yourself ask questions: ‘What does this mean?’” While I am reading and annotating passages this is what is mainly going through my head. I am asking questions and am trying to engage with the text. If I don’t understand what the text is saying at first, I stop and ask myself what it might mean, then I continue to see if it will be answered further into the reading. When I am responding to the articles, I look for key passages that will support what I am trying to say. What I decide to mark up in the articles comes down to what I am reading and what I am reading it for. If I am reading a specific piece for an essay then I would look for passages that I thought I could use for my argument in my essay, but if I am just reading the article for the following class I would look for key phrases that I believed would be important to talk about in class or that I thought would be important to point out. I think that this is showing my ability since I look for vital passages, I highlight and markup things that I reacted too also, but I stick mainly to passages that I can discuss. This is showing my ability to “interrogate” because I look for things that are important and could be vital to a discussion and/or essay.