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I actually did get to study The Book Thief in school. I'd already read it beforehand but I'm so thrilled I got to study it
Alexis Winstanley So jealous! I would have loved to study it :D
I read the Book Thief in school originally, but it was in 8th grade, so not much deep thought about it that I remember; we mostly just talked about the history in it...even though we read it for English class. I actually don't remember if we talked about the writing in it at all, but I do remember I didn't like it until I decided to re-read it a little while later. It's actually the book that made me realize that I COULD like books that the school made me read and not just sweep them aside because I was being "forced" to read them.
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The book thief is one of my favorite books!
I had to read Percy Jackson in sixth grade and that's what got me hooked!
I disagree, based on my own experiences. Personally, in 4th grade, I was able to read junior college level. I understood everything. Which made me an outcast. I found class reads boring. I could understand it too well, which made it such a bore I constantly read my own books. This led me to several good book series, such as Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Warrior Cats. Warrior Cats was the best and longest of these series. It was complex, and it was not a bore.
Warriors was such a good series! I heard they're coming out with a new arc, that takes place a while after the last arc ends.
Revenge Sucker Same. When I was younger what we had to read was to young, or mature for me.
I actually have a little story about engaging my fellow classmates in a series~
This happened this past school year. I was in Grade 8 and I had recently started reading this amazing series called Gone by Michael Grant, when one day at school, my teacher was taking suggestions for books for our class library. I suggested the Gone series, and at first all of the guys threw in comments like "that sounds dumb", but I knew most of them did it because they don't like me, and most of them arent very heavy readers.. Anyway, about a month or two passed and the books finally arrived.
And guess what?
It started with one, then two, before eventually the ENTIRE class was reading the series, everyone waiting patiently for the next book to be available. Usually I wouldn't be so proud, but the fact that most of the guys (my class was made up of 10 boys and 3 girls) in my class weren't heavy readers, and hardly found any books they liked, I honestly can say it's one of the best things I've managed to do.
What was even better was that when the first boy to pick up the books after me finished them, the teacher actually had to ask me if I could recommend anything else for him because he was so upset it had ended. It truly is an amazing/unique series that includes diversity of race and sexuality, not to mention there's some pretty bad ass females too. If you're looking for anything I highly recommend them.
But yeah, I just sort of wanted to share that story on the topic of teachers engaging more kids to read. (Only in this case, classmates engaging classmates)
Nice thing to share.
:)
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Wow, yes that's amazing.
Good classics are - Little Women and Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott, The Secret Garden, Little Princess, and The Shuttle by Francis Burnett, Peter Pan by James M. Barrie...
There will still of course be cases where this would happen with books suited for older readers, yes. Certain methods won't work for certain people. But for those starting out reading it seems like the more suitable path.
I have to read The Book Thief for school this year, and now I'm excited :)
In 2nd grade my teacher made us read books with only 2-3 words per page, and it was way to easy for me at the time. I wish the teacher would've let me expand my mind and read things that we more interesting.
I haven't seen anyone else here on CZcams that loved Song of the lioness !! I am always so happy when that happens. That series is my all time favorite series of books!
i think that sometimes reading classics in school can be benefitial, because often i'll get alot more of the themes and points the story is trying to get across if i study it in school as opposed to reading it outside of class and looking to sparknotes to explain what's going on.
Im in 6th grade and i just finished FOTR by J.R.R Tolkien! My teacher was astounded that there was a copy of it in our library!
I had amazing teachers though! We had one teacher who had a treasure chest and it was full of candy and small toys and if we could answer a question about the story/book we were reading we got to pick something out. It really encouraged everyone to read along, pay attention and actually get into the story. I think it all comes down to the fact that some people should be teachers and some should not.
I totally understand where you are coming from! There are of course going to be those younger viewers who love to read those targeted towards older viewers and vice versa. When I am older I have no doubt I'll still LOVE YA :D
What I'm trying to say is that for those children in elementary school who do not read, in most cases (in my opinion) choosing YA will be the easier transition into reading, enjoying it and hopefully making a hobby out of it.
My elder sister bought me The Book Thief back for me when she went to Nepal. I read it and really really enjoyed it and now my sister has found out she's studying it for school this year (year 11). I'm so excited that a book I enjoyed could possibly be something I might read for school in the future and that the books they choose for us to study in English are becoming to be more modern choices.
My local middle school has been assigned to read 'The Book Thief' this year. It has made me so happy!
I totally agree with your opinion on books that you are made to read in primary school as all the books that we had to read for class were absolutely dire. Also in my primary school we had a library that we were not allowed in unless we had to finish an important piece of work and if we were accompanied by a teacher and if we went in there during break or lunch we would get into serious trouble.
Wow strict
Oh I'm so in the mood to do this now. It's so thought-provoking! AND I LOVE THE LOCATION.
In my town, the 8th graders study The Book Thief in school! My mom actually was the teacher who started it 6 years ago, and my class was the first class to study it. I love it too!
In 7th grade we read Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone in literature, it was fantastic and I continued with the series
I started reading Harry Potter in second grade... 😂 WORTH IT! Haha!
omg! i wish we read something like that in school, but we always jist read boring or strange books. luckily i was into reading before and it didn't stop my love for books!
it's so interesting how we both went to school in australia (i assume) but our answers are quite different!
I loved reading classics in high school, the only classics i remember not liking/wanting to read were catch 22 and treasure island but those weren't even required reading.
and in year 9 The Book Thief was required reading :)
The Book Thief. Spot on. So much to learn from that book, and definitely gives great insight on the WWII. Instead of blatant facts and dates, one can observe the emotional aspect of the war.
When we were ready to read our first chapter book in elementary we were allowed to choose it ourselves it just had to be for our reading level and of course a chapter book! I chose the Phantom Tollbooth and that was what made me fall in love with reading. We really didn't have to read a lot of classics in high school just Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. The other books we read were more intriguing like Enders game which made me appreciate scifi. I guess I was lucky.
In my elementary school we had a Harry Potter unit, as well as a more recent Book Thief unit at the middle school, and at the junior high every other book they read is independent reading, and then a classic chosen by the teacher, though the high school is all chosen reading by the teacher...
Our summer reading book this year was Divergent! A lot of people who don't like to read read it and really liked it. :)
I definitely agree w/ your point about young readers and choosing books that they can connect with. I think so many people feel like they don't like reading because their main experience with it was in school with "boring" literature. If they could have experience reading stories that are actually interesting and engaging, I think they'd be much more likely to love it!
People like me (and I'm sure you're probably the same) grew up in a family that valued reading and we went to the library a lot when I was growing up, so I would've loved reading no matter what we read in school. But I think for a lot of people, school reading is their main exposure point to reading, so teachers really end up turning them off to it when they choose books that the kids won't get sucked into.
I had to do the book thief in year 10 and hated it...
i hated studying jane eyre too but then i reread it during my second year of college and i loved it. beautiful writing and great characters
A couple of weeks ago me and the members of the creative writing club did an assembly on national storytelling week. I hope it helped people understand the magic and fun side to reading, as well as the lessons.
I was very fortunate as a child when it came to reading... My third grade teacher was really cleaver when it came to reading books. We would still have reading time where the teacher would read aloud to us and what she would do is pick a very beloved book such as A Series of Unfortunate Events or Harry Potter and she would only read the first chapter or so and said if you want to know what happens next, read it yourself! :D
We studied 'World Shaker' last year for around 2 terms and I swear it was the biggest nightmare I have ever encountered in English literature.
With the different nationalities, in grade five Bridie's Fire read to us and I think that was set in Ireland if I remember correctly. Also, in grade six we were read Chinese Cinderella...
We actually listened to the HP philosophers stone for english class in junior high. It was great! I agree with trying to get books that will capture the kids of today more, and maybe put off the classics to later on.
Classics are great! They are particularly difficult to read, but there's a payoff at the end (sort of like a euphoric moment of understanding). Keep up the good work!
A class at my school was actually able to study the Book Thief! Our school only had enough copies for one class (which sadly wasn't mine) but it was still pretty awesome.
This video, and your views, make me SO HAPPY! I am a English major (late in life, obviously), studying to teach at the community college level in the US. There are so many people who truly believe that reading and even writing is pointless now, in this age of technology. It is heartwarming, refreshing, and motivating to see young people who feel reading is still important and sees the value. Thank you for sharing your views, every one helps!
In the Eighth grade we read The Book Thief and I loved it so much!~
I loved when we read the fairytales/folklore from other countries, in elementary school but some other stuff was so boring...
4th grade and up we seemed to just read duller and duller things, especially with teachers obsessed with "american literature" across five Aprils was so slow... I did love "where the red fern grows" though...
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I actually had to read The Book Thief as well as a choice of another YA book (TFIOS, Speak, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and I thought that was really great. I think that schools are getting better with this issue by allowing more freedom with what we read :) Also I read the Hobbit and Harry Potter in elementary school as well so I actually don't have a bad history with in-school reading. I guess I'm just lucky
I used to hate reading in third grade but now I love it (I'm in 5)
What my fourth grade teacher did was gives us choices of books based on our level and I loved it
I would have never read a lot of good books without her
I got hooked while in a reading class while in 7th or 8th grade. Waiting for class to start I was playfully ribbing a classmate who was reading multiple books at once on his own. One of the books was The Hobbit, and I was like, "why waste your time with this? There is a movie" (the cartoon at the time). Our teacher was nearby, and the next book she assigned was The Hobbit. I was hooked ever since.
They teach The Book Thief and Harry Potter at my school, although Harry Potter is just the first book and the unit has a focus on child development psychology.
Here every book studied in high school was written by an Australian author. Only one wasn't set here.
I don't remember the books set in primary school, often because I read pretty much every book in the library. Actually we were never set any classics aside from Shakespeare, which I really enjoyed.
The Alanna series!!!! Loved it :) I had to read the book thief in middle school (and have read it many times since). I began my reading years homeschooled and grew to love classics but when i switched in forth grade the books were contemporary childrens lit that i didn't like (and no one else did either)
I loved Jane Eyre but I actually didn't read it until this year. (I've been out of high school for about...oh, twelve years.) Parts of the book were kind of hard to get through but I loved the story overall.
I started reading Harry Potter in 2nd grade (within the year it was released, it was sort of a fluke that I found it, just randomly picked it up off the shelf). It's now the thing I love the most in life literature/media-wise, has been such a massive part of my life and got me through quite a lot of rough patches and still does. I was actually lucky enough to have HP books as my required summer reading, but they stopped that once the 5th HP movie was released I believe, because it was becoming very popular and they didn't want people to either watch the movies or just google everything that happened. :( I 100% agree that fun books with morals similar to HP needs to be in schools, reading is supposed to be enjoyable, not something that has to be forced down children's throats!
I'm in year 12 and we got to study The Book Thief, it was absolutely incredible
I think the reason a lot of people hate reading is because the books they are forced to read in school are boring, or too difficult. At my school we had always been told that books with 5 words you don't know on a page was the correct reading level. In eighth grade we had to read books at our level of our choosing, sometimes with genre requirements (historical fiction was the one I remember) for the entire quarter. It's hard enough to find a book in historical fiction I wanted to read, and basically impossible to find something on my "reading level" other than like, a dictionary? maybe? i joked about getting a book in spanish or something. So the entire year I was "cheating" by reading the most difficult YA books (or books I could find at the school library- I'm not gonna buy books I'm gonna hate) I could find, which at most (I read the Tale of Two Cities, along with a few other random books that were two "easy" , which were Not interesting to a 12/13 year old) had maybe 2 words I didn't know on a page.
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We had Harry Potter in school(Ukraine). That was a nice surprise to find it in textbook :D
I went through the same thing with classics. They just never interested me as much as YA did. I am trying to read more of them though. (:
I feel like you do a lot more reading in American high school than we do in Irish secondary schools. We had read great books all throughout primary(elementary?) school but in my 6 years of secondary we've read 4 novels! To kill a mockingbird, a Ross O'Carroll-Kelly book and How Many Miles to Babylon. I would have loved to study the book thief!
my grade is reading the book thief right now!! OMG ITS AMAZING
I live in Norway and I have only read a few books that have been set up by school. We read ABOUT books, but we never get the chance to read them. I'm in my last year of High School and we have read 2 books in Norwegian and one in English. MORE READING PLEASEEE!
I loved Alanna ! It was soo amazing !!!
i think the book thief would be an amazing book to read in class... i think there is a lot to discuss about. i´m not a big fan of classics, but we read Die Physiker ( the physics ) by Friedrich Dürrenmat which plays in an insan asylum and is about three man who think they are Einstein and Newton and is really amazing.
Great point about creative writing as well! I always liked it also but felt like I've never really gotten proper instruction on how to do it well. I think it definitely should have been more emphasized in school than it was, rather than just treating it as a free writing time, as my teachers tended to do. I think they equated "creative writing" with "do whatever you want" which completely misses the point that to be productively creative, there are actual things you can do and prepare yourself with to write well.
In my middle school we had a creative writing class and I loved it. I just disliked all of the homework we got.
Oh no! Not "Jane Eyre!" LOL! Honestly though, I'm glad I read "Jane Eyre" in college cuz had I read it in high school, I think I would have died out of boredom. Enjoyed watching this!
There can't be such a thing like a "creative writing course". Good writers are brought from the wumb with the ability to write. It's something you carry inside, you can't force it.
There's never enough creative writing prep for Australian high school exams...it's very annoying, particularly because they make up a majority of our exams. I used to do extension English, I was enjoying it too but opted out because I wanted to focus more on other subjects, though I definitely think that reading would be stronger in high school if better YA literature was in the syllabus (I had a teacher last year who wanted to study the Hunger Games, but we weren't allowed...a mistake I think).
The Book Thief is actually one of the books you can study in Ireland. (:
In 7-10 I studied Hitler's Daughter, Once, The Body + Shakespeare and I loved all of these books. My sister did Tomorrow when the War began as well. In 11-12 I hated the books, I only enjoyed the Shakespeare ones that we got to study. I did The Book Thief as my related text for belonging and also used it as my back up related text for History + Memory because I did The Fiftieth Gate which was about a Jewish family in WWII. Schools should absolutly teach The Book Thief
I read "of Mice and Men" in school and loved it. It's still one of my favourite books. Personally, reading YA fiction in school would have been torture to me. Sure, there are exceptions but as a general rule there really isn't enough to those books to really learn all that much. Whereas Of Mice and Men gave us a whole term of talking and analyzing the meanings and historical context and I never got tired. Kids should be a certain age before they tackle longer, older, wordier fiction but they shouldn't be deprived of that opportunity and have to read more dumbed down fiction either.
You should really give classics another chance in the future. A few that I really enjoyed were: Lolita, Wuthering Heights, the Collector, Animal Farm or anything by Jane Austen. I liked Jane Eyre - if you ever decide to reread it you might also like it.
I guess classics need a little of getting used to and it helps when you alone discover the books and are not forced to study every detail about them.
I find it hard to read classics to but would love to try more. It would amazing if we could study The Book Thief of Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys because they teach us so much about the past and are as good as the other novels we study!xx
I had to read the book thief last year for school! But I had read it before
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Aaaaaa \o/ again the Alanna series :3 loved it. That was the first ever "fantasy/fictional" book I've ever read
I totally agree with you! The Book Thief is an excelent read. I read during high school here in Mexico and really loved it, the writing is beautiful.
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So, we have also this "literature debate" here in Brazil! Most of your kids in elementary and high school don't like to read, because the books that are given to them are so boring and completely away from their ages.
I'm totally with you about the YA books! I really think that the insertion of YA reading (specially Harry Potter, why not?) will increase the number of readers! About the reading of diferent nationality writers, don't you do this? Here in Brazil we have to read national books and compare to books written by authors from different nationalities.
Have you already read some brazilian book? If you don't I really recommended Dom Casmurro, is a brazilian classic from romantism school of literature, a very good book!
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I actually read the book thief this year for summer reading at my school
I studied the book their in grade nine with my class. I honestly strongly dislike the book, but it could have been worse. It is still a book that I would recommend for classes to studio, because so many non readers were actually engaged.
We had to read Inkheart just recently and it was originally in German
100% agree about The Book Thief!
This was really interesting as a tag and useful for me as a teacher as well as a reader trying to I still a love of kids. My blog really helps with this though!
Last year the juniors read The Hunger Games and this year now that i'm a junior, guess what we're reading? You guessed it! The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Haha, I actually had to study The Book Thief and I do go to a school I. Australia! Wow, you did extension 2 English? Cool beans.
At the moment I am studying The Woman In Black by Susan Hill at school which I have read previously and not enjoyed. It is ridiculous that I have to base around 50% of my English grades on this book when I don't enjoy the story or the writing style at all. I could analyse The Fault In Our Stars or The Hunger Games to a grade A* level, if I studied them in school, easily because I enjoyed those books and they engaged me so well that it made me what to analyse what the reader meant at each point
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Since I entered highschool most books we read are mostly history books and classics in English. I feel bad for the kids in my class cause they do not get what the story is telling because of how the story is written.When we were reading Shakespeare I got it but almost the whole class did not and had a lot of trouble.So when we had to answer questions I had to help a lot of people along with the teachers
In elementary we got to choose a book from home or library to read and we will read it every morning for 20 mins without answering questions that was really fun wish it was like that in highschool
HAHAHA I loved it! Ahh well
No, I've never read a Jane Austen novel but I would like to :D
My main problem are the expectations that are put on you as a student for school reads. It almost makes the book less enjoyable. It's definitely a different experience than reading for your own enjoyment
I also hated Jane Eyre with a passion when studying it in college - I don't even own my copy anymore, I gave it to a friend who wanted to try it.
I got this book from the government here in São Paulo, Brazil :) We didn't study it, though.
So for every quarter, we get to do a book report for my English class, you get to decide what to read. I read Ender's shadow, some Holocaust book, and the book thief, which I got a really good grade on. We have to do a class novel ever quarter. We read some stupid pre-revolutionary war book and the red badge of courage, which I literally was so confused on and was literally about to cry because I took a test and got 20% and I'm in 6th grade! Teachers need to learn what books are appopriate text difficulty for grade levels
I live in Romania and we would only read Romanian Literature. Nowadays I tend to read 90% universal literature. In a way I feel guilty for not reading enough contemporary national authors.
I hear people talking about how they are reading divergent and stuff for summer work. Last year in the summer going into 9th grade we had to read great expectations, a separate peace, and to kill a mockingbird. Along with it we had to take a huge page of notes every 40 pages. We also had grammar notes to take from a textbook and we had to write an essay on the books. This year we need to read huckleberry, the crucible, and the great gatsby along with those notes, an essay, and poetry notes. They wonder why kids are stressed nowadays. On top of a job that most people my age have for the summer we have to read and do all that work. It's bullshit.
We had to study Beowulf in Year 7 and I have never hated a book so much!
Gladly our school each week lets us get 3 books from our school library
My school studies The Book Thief in year 10!! Hopefully they still do next year, because then I can study it (I've already read it four times - but that's not the point)
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I am reading The Book Thief for Honors English this summer
That's such an interesting tag!
I am a librarian & part of my job description is to make my students love reading. I know I have to inspire them and make them love reading but some of them seem to despise the whole experience no matter what. My students range from 6- 14 years old so my teaching technique should be different in each class which can be exhausting. Oh and yeah, English isn't the first language in my school unfortunately,which can be a bit of an obstacle.
Please give me suggestions that might help me in any way.
It's interesting how different the School literature in different countries is. I am from Germany and most of the times I didn't like the writing style and the language but loved talking and discussing the books but the one I really hated, because it was written in such an annoying way was "Faust I" by Goethe. I loved talking about it, it was really interesting but the language >.< That's the only book I didn't finish reading because I hate it so much^^
Interesting tag! For me, I was both an avid reader from preschool and avid scholar (valedictorian, summa cum laude, etc) yet I never liked when the two intersected for studies on actual books. I don't like to dissect a book down to its most finite details, it always kind of just bothers me. Reading can be educational, but for me its an escape. I also didn't get an opportunity to study anything interesting as I went to a private christian school so the curriculum was very selective.
I had to read the hunger games last year in year 8 English :P