Name: Emily Temple

Date: Tuesday, September 15th

Period: 1st
Mantra: Dreams don’t work unless you do.

Video 2-column notes

“What’s the Use of Reading? Literature and Empathy”
by Beth Ann Fennelly - TEDx University of Mississippi

Directions: Complete the two-column notes using a quote, detail, or message

from Beth Ann Fennelly (CD). Explain your thinking (CM.
Include 5 quotes.

Concrete Detail - Quote, Detail, Commentary - Explanation, Insight, Analysis

Message

Example: Example:
“Reading literature makes us more When reading literature it allows us (the readers)
empathetic.” to transform into the character and internalize the
feelings the character has at that moment. It also
allows us to feel more (empathy) than just what
we feel in our everyday lives.

1. “Regular readers score higher on
reading the eyes and mind test.”
1. Readers who scored higher must be able to
understand and focus more on the character’s
feelings/thoughts. They learn about the other
people’s perspectives just from a book. The
character’s can tell so much from their actions,
that we will improve our social interactions with
people.

2. “Reading improves our social 2. This quotes explains that just by reading a
awareness.” book, passage, etc., it can help improve the
things that matter most. The characters in the
book are the ones who improve our social
awareness; they go through situations that we are
able to experience throughout out lives. They
help us be more aware of our outside world and
get us more prepared for it.
3. “One week later, the children’s
attitudes were assessed and those who’d
read the passage dealing with racial
prejudice had improved attitudes towards
immigrants.”
4. “Reading educates us emotionally,
cognitively, and spiritually.”
5. “We practice making decisions that
have consequences, which is to say we
practice adulting.”
3. When the group of students read that passage,
they were able to see the other character’s
perspective showing them if they should change
their actions. This means that reading could have
a huge affect on people’s lives.
4. This quote shows that reading any text, book,
etc. can educate us in being more advanced in
our daily lives. All three of these things could
practically happen throughout the character’s
story in the book. The character is showing us all
different types of emotions or feelings that we are
able to go through.
5. When we read, the character generally makes
our decisions for us. They educate us on what we
should and shouldn’t do. The character practically
improves our emotional intelligence to help us in
our everyday lives.