The reason for school is to get an education. But what is that? Some say to get a better career and make more money or become smarter in general. But the main reason that school was invented was to teach children to read and write. That is it. After students were able to read and write then came the math, history, and science. Growing up I loved learning how to read and write, but to a certain degree.
After I got pretty good at reading and writing, which I’d say took until 4th grade to be able to write essays well and read at a high level, teachers would assign reading and writing assignments on the stupidest subjects. For an example cursive writing was the biggest waste of energy I have ever put into schoolwork. My school had us learning and writing cursive until my 8th grade year and I started in the 4th grade. After 8th grade it was all a choice to write in cursive or regular.
During the SATS writing a paragraph in cursive was the hardest part of the whole test because I already forgot how to write in cursive and that was my junior year in high school. So there was four years wasted of learning and I knew it going through it even though ever teacher that taught it said “Oh you will write in cursive every day in high school and college! ” What a load of crap that was. Then the reading that they assigned was by far the most boring stuff to read and over half of my peers wouldn’t remember the material the next day.
Summary: High School and Jessica
In the essay, “Farm Girl”, Jessica Hemauer writes about her experiences growing up on a working farm and the positive outcome it had on her life. She shares how difficult and sometimes hated the farm life was as a child and how the difficulties and responsibilities helped her evolve into a stronger, better person. “A typical ten-year-old child does not have to wake up at five in the morning to do ...
I would think if 90% of the class groans and moans when you assign reading you should probably pick a different book to read. Who cares if it’s a Newbery Award 12 year olds didn’t vote on it American Library Association did and they are avid readers who love to read anything and everything. We are young children that you are trying to make them be excited about learning, and I always heard teachers say they want students who love to learn. Well you can’t blame the kids for not wanting to get involved in something that seems meaningless. Going through school I hated everything about how my teachers approached reading.
They never asked me what do I want to read about or what I want to learn about until my 7th grade year when we had to read a book, take a test on it, and then write a book report on it. When I was listening to my teacher describe the assignment I was waiting for the circumstances. Then she said anything we want to read and do a book report on. I was dumbfounded when I went to the library because I had no idea on where to start. So I just started going to random areas of the library and seeing anything that just popped out at me and begged me to read it.
Finally one did, and to this day still my favorite book I have ever read, “Iron Marshall” by Louis L’Amour. I fell in love with this book. I read it every night before I went to sleep and every day during school when I had down time during class. What drew me in was that there was action in every chapter and the story was in such good detail. I now know the saying that the book is better than the movie. And it is all because of “Iron Marshall”. After reading that book I had to see what else Louis L’Amour had because of how much I fell in love with the first one. Oh he did and to my surprise I can’t pick a favorite one!
I read every single book he had in the library by the end of my sophomore year in high school. Louis L’Amour changed my outlook on reading in general. Because of his books I love to read and I am eager to see what other books have to offer. But unfortunately almost every one I come in contact with is very dull and boring. None have that excitement or wow factor that I am looking for like in the “Iron Marshall”. It is sad because if you have something that is the best you will have a comparing system to see if anything else will compare to it so I will not give much reading material a chance after the first couple paragraphs.
The Review on Wide Read Reading Book Skills
WIDE READING PROGRAM Real Boys Read Books is simply about reading. Reading for pleasure, reading regularly, reading different authors, styles, genres, reading bigger and better books. Real Boys Read Books is basically a motivational campaign requiring enthusiasm from teachers, students and parents, and incentives to read more and more. The main aim of the wide reading programme is to enhance and ...
I remember one book I was reading by Louis L’Amour, “Crossfire”; there was a shootout in the very first page with several people dying. After reading something like that it is impossible not to be hooked and I haven’t come across anything like that since. There has been some interesting reading I have come across in my education but nothing stands next to, in my mind, like Louis L’Amour books. He is the reason why I read other material just to see if I can come across another literature jewel.
