How to Make Use of Secondary Texts

i like to scaffold a new secondary work for each primary resource so you read a novel from your special author and you layer in an essay perhaps talking about that novel. With a biography i like to have a biographical reading running through over the course of the project  and i like tohave that reading staggered again if you can get more than one biography that would be a very good thing shakespeare gives us a perfect illustration as to why having multiple biographies is a good idea. If you're reading dostoevsky you would use joseph frank's biography if you're reading Tolstoy you would have rosman bartler for company or graham robs biography