The Big Five Personality Traits include: openness (to experience), conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
The last one - neuroticism - is related to emotional stability/instability and refers to the experience of negative emotions such as depression, anger or anxiety and is associated to low tolerance to stress. Those who score high in this personality trait are usually emotionally reactive and negative emotions are persistent in their daily moods.
Sudie's description refers to an unemotional, even-tempered person, which represents the opposite to the trait of neuroticism.
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I believe the answer is: read the novel aloud and discuss it with the students who struggle
When readers struggle to read they are very likely to stop reading it and making an opinion that the writing is bad and does not make sense. By making them read in group setting the readers would most likely realize why they do not understand it and it open up opportunities for exchange of opinion and idea among the group.
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