Emms response to reading

Okay, I know it is late, but I am posting it anyway. In Deeper Reading I was drawn to the fact that one needs to do framing activities while discussing a text. I know Gallagher says a major work, but really I think that this should be done for most of the works that are covered in a class. I feel that this is important because it keeps the students on top, current and focused to the text being discussed. His point of cold reading being a bad idea is very true. when you have no information about a text it is harder to get into the reading. I still experience this with some of my Literature classes. How many of you caught that he was talking about laundry on the very first read on page 26. I thought it was funny because I was thinking about it while I was reading that description of it. I was like "What could this be? Sounds like what I do when I do laundry. Maybe it is about laundry. It is!" I really liked a lot of what He wrote in these two chapters; in fact I used a lot of what he said in my I-search paper.