What is your school making you read this summer?
Does your school assign a book or books to read over the summer? My daughter is going into seventh grade and her school is making her choose two books from a list of about five novels. When school starts back she will have to take a test on the two books she read. She read Bearstone by Will Hobbs and Lizzie Bright, and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt. She liked them both.
So tell us about your experiences with required summer reading. Did you like the books? Or were they awful? What did you have to read this summer?
If you were a teacher, what would you require your class to read?
Well, I’m digging into Mark Twain’s complete works, and I’m not having fun. Shakespeare’s Hamlet was okay, but Romeo & Juliet… ack.
If I were a teacher, I’d assign way too much fantasy and weird stuff. My class would be very unbalanced, but I have a feeling it’d be fun. 😉
LOL! Christian, you would be a fun teacher, wouldn’t you? Mark Twain seems really hard to read to me now, even though I liked his stuff when I was younger. I read Huckleberry Finn to my daughter and the dialect was killer. I am from the south, from a family of country-talking people, but even I couldn’t figure out some of it. And I can definitely understand why you wouldn’t like Romeo and Juliet! But some day, the fact that you read it might just be the thing that will impress that girl you like … 😉