Taking Readers' Choice

When I heard that my school was offering Readers' Choice as a new

class next year, I thought that it would  be a great class to take. The class was described as one in which the students could choose their own books to read and discuss them with the class. This appealed to me because I could read books that I would enjoy and not books like I had been assigned in the past. In school I consider most of the books we read to be somewhat boring. And since I read books on my own time, I thought that I would really enjoy taking this class.

Throughout the year we read a total of about 8 novels. With each novel we did various projects pertaining to aspects like its plot, characters, comparing it to its screen adaptation, and searching for an underlying meaning. The workload for this class was a bit more than I expected but it was not too much to handle. The only thing would be that the projects and assignments were not spaced out enough. As soon as you would finish a novel there would be about three assignments due one day after another. But I can see how it would be hard to space them out because they could only be completed once the book was finished and by the time we finished one book we had to move to the other to get through the cirriculum for the class.

Overall I think that a class like Readers' Choice is a good idea. It gives studetnst a chance to read books that they will actually enjoy. It may even show some students who thought they didn't enjoy reading that there are other more interesting books out there that they would enjoy reading. Not kinds like they are assigned and disliked.