Nostalgia Base: Required Reading in School
Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons! Required Reading in School ***************************** When I was a student, especially in middle school, I disliked required reading. It was not that I hated reading because I was reading all the time. But it was mainly the fact that I was reading a book I had no interest in. Plus, the fact that my grade for that quarter depended on doing this assignment made me very apprehensive. It was not until I reached high school and college that I was seeing a change in the required reading. The teachers would first explain the premise of a book to us. Then they would ask us if that premise would be something that we would be interested in. This approach worked better for me and my classmates because we got to vote on a book that we would read. One of the hardest books to get through for me were books I had no interest in. There are many books out there that cover the sam...
