Welcome to Part 2 of our series Building Skills for the Literature Class! In this episode, Paige and Margaret discuss our approaches, strategies, and assignments for developing our students analytical skills. There is no one right answer, but there are certainly a lot of wrong ones! We chat about how we help our students identify textual evidence and argue for its significance. In other words, this episode is all about moving our students from simply summarizing a text to crafting an argument about what the text means and why it matters. What are the different ways literary critics analyze literature? How do the skills for literary analysis translate outside of academia? What are the typical pitfalls for students starting to analyze a work of literature? We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and questions! Share your experiences, questions, and comments with us on Twitter with @Literaturely101, on Instagram at LiteraturelyPodcast, or via email at [email protected]!