By:
maria30
Jul 14, 2009
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Do you know what irks me? SUMMER READING! Picture this, end of the school year: no more tests, homework, assignments, book reports, math problems nothing. You’re as free as a bird with nothing but the beach, the sun, hanging out with friends, and a total summer to remember ahead of you right? WRONG! Just then you get a letter with a list of books and assignments to do. Buzz kill much?
Some of us plan on doing something over the summer, visiting family out of state, getting in shape, even getting a job. Teenagers have busy lives too and sometimes books just don’t fit in. I mean in between off season practice, babysitting, or anything else kids our age want to do, where do we squeeze in a 300 page novel? I mean I understand the point of summer reading, enriching our vocabulary and expanding literacy…yatta yatta . But come on who really wants to do that?
Nonetheless, summer reading is inevitable and we must try our best at attempting to get these books read. There are lots of ways to stay interested in your book. For starters, make sure you pick an interesting book, a really really good one that screams “read me!”. Because if you don’t, then you’ll have that book sitting somewhere in a corner collecting dust until you come to realize it’s the last day of vacation and you frantically start your assignment, and we do not want that my friend. To the fellow English honors students out there saying “we don’t get to chose our books” I know, but the books that are chosen aren’t bad, at least mine isn’t and there is always the book on tape which I hear helps you get into dry literature. As far as time for it, you can read anytime. When you’re tanning at the beach, during a long car ride to see your family, after putting the kids to sleep when your baby-sitting, before you go to sleep…see? Anytime.
Yes summer reading isn’t the best summer activity you could possibly do, but you have to do it if you want a good grade. So don’t be one of those slackers that procrastinate until last minute. Maybe you’ll get into your book and actually enjoy it? :) Who knows...
Some of us plan on doing something over the summer, visiting family out of state, getting in shape, even getting a job. Teenagers have busy lives too and sometimes books just don’t fit in. I mean in between off season practice, babysitting, or anything else kids our age want to do, where do we squeeze in a 300 page novel? I mean I understand the point of summer reading, enriching our vocabulary and expanding literacy…yatta yatta . But come on who really wants to do that?
Nonetheless, summer reading is inevitable and we must try our best at attempting to get these books read. There are lots of ways to stay interested in your book. For starters, make sure you pick an interesting book, a really really good one that screams “read me!”. Because if you don’t, then you’ll have that book sitting somewhere in a corner collecting dust until you come to realize it’s the last day of vacation and you frantically start your assignment, and we do not want that my friend. To the fellow English honors students out there saying “we don’t get to chose our books” I know, but the books that are chosen aren’t bad, at least mine isn’t and there is always the book on tape which I hear helps you get into dry literature. As far as time for it, you can read anytime. When you’re tanning at the beach, during a long car ride to see your family, after putting the kids to sleep when your baby-sitting, before you go to sleep…see? Anytime.
Yes summer reading isn’t the best summer activity you could possibly do, but you have to do it if you want a good grade. So don’t be one of those slackers that procrastinate until last minute. Maybe you’ll get into your book and actually enjoy it? :) Who knows...
