Chapter 12

First, I would just like to say that this semester has flown by. I have really enjoyed our class and our many interactions with each other and I would like to wish everyone luck in the future!

Okay, now on to this week's reading; Chapter 12. A few things stuck out to me while reading the thing I kept go back to was the idea of giving students a choice about what they read. I understand that there are select literature that teachers have to assign, but I do agree that students will learn to love reading if they get to read something they have an interest in.

I have always loved reading but I really did not appreciate certain genres as much as others. I recently spent time with my younger cousin at an Family-Easter-Fun-Time. My cousin is in middle school and he was telling me about the Accelerated Reader program. Each quarter students are required to participate in outside reading, they need at least 20 points and it counts as a quiz grade. My cousin admitted he didn't participate in AR this past quarter because his teacher required all books to be Classical Literature. He is excited for 4th quarter because the required genre is SciFi. So this has me asking; why can't we give students more of a choice? Especially with and outside reading program. I know that my love of reading came after I starting reading about things I had a personal interest in.

Ps. I gave him a copy of this, it's not SciFi, but he keeps texting me how about how funny it is.