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Posting again today sorry, but English teachers?

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My school is total Common Core by  September, and we are changing our summer reading.  We agreed as a department that it doesn't necessarily have to be nonfiction. 

Our old summer reading for English Ten was Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls AND A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.   We decided to only do one work for next year to see how that goes.

Any ideas?  What do you do for summer reading?  

I'm just sick of the whole thing to be honest.  The kids don't read, it's irritating, then they start the school year with a terrible grade on the test, and they hate English class on day one.  I don't want to be a teacher who loses all sense of expectation, but I'm just tired of it all.

 I guess if anything, I'd like something that they actually enjoy!  HELP!


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Re: Posting again today sorry, but English teachers?

  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member

    I'm just lurking on this one, as I teach 6 yr olds!  For my 10th grade reading though, like 17 yrs ago..., they did a choice thing.  In fact, we always had a choice.  They picked a theme and a few books, then the first few weeks of schoo

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    This is so funny because my husband and I were just talking about this.  I was saying how I didn't want to go back to work because then I will have to talk about summer reading.

    Summer reading has been the biggest bone of contention in my de

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    This is so funny because my husband and I were just talking about this.  I was saying how I didn't want to

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