Help Share A Love Of Reading With Sophomore Students!
My students need 30 copies each of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and "The Hunger Games."
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My Students
"You're a wizard, Harry."
Remember the first time you read those words. Remember flipping the pages as fast as you could to keep the story moving. Remember the suspense at the end of chapters. Remember waiting for each next book. Remember loving reading.
Share those memories.
I teach 28 high school boys in a class called advisory.
Each morning we are together for 10 minutes for attendance and a morning news programs and then in the afternoons we have announcements and about 30 minutes of non-defined time. This past year we started reading in those extra moments. We started with the Catcher in the Rye, then Monster by Walter Dean Myers. By design there was no homework, and there is no grade for the class (just pass fail). And, at first the students were unsure about it. We did read-alouds, and then dramatic reenactments of scenes.
At the end of the Catcher in the Rye some students were (understandably) confused. I took the question, "Mr. M, I don't get it - why are we reading this book." He paused for a moment and then hesitantly said... "wait, can books be a form of entertainment?"
This is the precipice we are on now. Books are on the verge of being fun. We need to go further.
My Project
Harry Potter and The Hunger Games are what I refer to as gateway books. Like the RL Stine books, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and Chronicles of Narnia before them they start a reader out in another world and carry them away book over book, expanding the imagination and pushing the reader's idea of what is possible. More than anything though, they are fun. They are interesting. They capture the attention and they don't let it go.
We will read Harry Potter and the Hunger Games aloud in class, act out the scenes, imagine what it would be like to live the lives of the characters. We will discuss the decisions not only that the character makes, but also the decisions of the author as well. We will discuss scene and plot... but we will also get lost and talk about the excitement of attending Hogwarts, or what we would do in the arena in the Hunger Games.
I began to love reading as a child when my mother painstakingly read (voices and all) the first Harry Potter book on a long road trip.
I was hooked and I haven't stopped reading since. I want to share that passion and love of reading with my students. I want them to catch the bug and have it stick.
Teaching is less filling a head with information and more lighting a fire. Help me light this fire for my students.
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