Reading a Novel
My 12th grade
Honors and on level classes have been reading Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula for a few weeks now. What I have noticed is the students are
falling behind. There are about 25% of the students who are where they should
be in the novel and the others just aren’t reading. We have the students read
two chapters a class and then on weekends they have multiple days to catch up.
MHS is also on an every other day schedule so the students only have to read
only a chapter a night. We started off just quizzing them every six chapters,
but when we realized that they were not reading, we had to start quizzing them
every class period.
Students say that they are
busy and that the reading is just too much, but when class time is offered for
them to read or listen to it on tape they do not use their time wisely. They
are doing the assignments that we assign them and most are doing the vocabulary
but when it comes to reading they are falling behind.
What can we do to help our students read when it comes
to novels?
How can we assign a “readable” amount of work and not
take half a year to read one novel?
Break up the reading? One chapter a class day during
week days and more on weekend?
em. Av � I b t� Џ lly nervous
and self-conscious while videotaping, so I am not teaching to the best of my
abilities. I guess this will improve the more I video tape myself in the
future.
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