book come September. Summer reading/homework is designed to help students keep their knowledge over the long, non-educative hours of summer. Teachers think that making children read in the summer helps them, but it does not, it does the opposite. It stresses kids out, takes time away from other things, and the book choices are usually boring. Thus, summer homework should not be given because it does not help students as much as they think. Students should not do summer reading since the books are
students read more, they become more knowledgeable, therefore, summer reading makes students smarter. Summer reading is an assignment where students read required books and do work on them; it is assigned to students in the United States during their summer vacation. The summer reading program started in the 1890s as a way to encourage children living in urban areas to read during their summer vacation by using the library. The Crush of Summer Homework by Harris Cooper, Nancy Kalish, Mark Bauerlein, Denise
actions taken by the Nazis really did. In Night Elie Wiesel gives an accurate first-hand account of his life while in the ghettos and concentration camps. While some teachers show reluctance on whether or not to continue assigning this book to summer reading
knew what they would tell my parents. The teachers would say, “Katie’s just a chatterbox”, “Katie is just a summer birthday”. Their belief of my decision to be lazy fed into my mind, because my teachers were always to oblivious to check and see if I truly had a learning disability. The insecurities of my learning started at a very young age, kindergarten, where I was placed at the lowest reading group. The kindergarten classroom
Over the summer we had plenty of books to read for summer reading. I read two, but chose Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lumbar for my summer reading assignment. I noticed there were a lot of good morals in Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie. I think that this book would be an ideal book for high school because of its morals. People will say otherwise, and I have considered their advice. But, at the end I have noticed that there are more good reasons than bad reasons to read Sleeping Freshmen Never
There’s one issue that almost every teenager can relate to; it can cause your heart to beat out of your chest, and sometimes it can even make you want to give up and have a meltdown. Hundreds of assignments to write, tests to study for, along with dealing with impertinent “friends” and just trying to fit can result in major anxiety. This panic and suffering can ultimately take over your mind and reside there. For me, my first experience with anxiety was when I was only 7-years-old. I woke up in
Dear Principal Belzer, My name is Caitlin Ung, I am an AP Composition and Language student at Mills High school, and am writing to bring your attention to a controversial topic that arose while reading one of our summer reading assignments. Mills’ junior AP English class is required to read Zeitoun, a nonfiction book by Dave Eggers that explores the tale of a Syrian-American facing various trials in a post- Hurricane Katrina society. As one of these students, I find that Dave Eggers’ novel, Zeitoun
mechanics behind it, and the many things it can do. The Power of Habit, is one of four books required to read for an AP Psychology summer assignment. From the four books, I choose this book as it appealed to the fundamental idea of habit. I found habit to be an interesting concept to be studied and wondered how important it was to society. I was extremely satisfied with my reading of this book. The Power of Habit was able to accomplish what many books, including the other three options given, were not able
As of late I’ve been reading a lot of biographies such as: “The Anne Frank diary, I am Malala, and Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.” Each of these characters reinforced habit one of persistence for me; walking through the streets of Germany, into the schools of Pakistan
On October 23rd, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo spoke, as part of the Indiana Journalism School’s speaker series, about her experiences whilst writing her 2012 book Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Behind the Beautiful Fovevers follows the lives of residents of Annawadi, a Mumbai slum that is located right next to the city’s international airport. Whilst writing her book, Boo spent three whole years living in the Annawadi slum. Boo’s book has garnered practically ubiquitous acclaim