Reading Stamina!

One of the goals of the Great Expectations unit is to see a long, complex novel through to the end and to develop reading stamina. It's not easy to keep reading a book that is long, challenging, and has many characters and sub plots that might not always keep your attention. We're more than halfway through the book and we've got less than two weeks worth of reading assignments left. How are you doing? Are you persevering? If you stopped reading at some point, are you ready to pick it back up again and see it through to the end? You can do it! And when you finish, you'll have a sense of satisfaction that will stay with you throughout the challenging years of advanced high school English that lay ahead...

Write two paragraphs for this post. In your first paragraph, write about how you're doing with keeping up with the reading. If you're keeping up, how are you doing it? Do you listen while you read? Do you read each assignment after school or do you read a few reading assignments at a time so you can take days off? Explain how the reading is going for you. If you're not keeping up, what can you do to get back into it? Explain your plan for finishing the novel.

For the second paragraph, write about something compelling that's keeping you interested. Maybe you're not feeling so interested...then what is something that you like enough about the book to get you back into it.  Describe what you consider to be the most compelling aspect of the novel and write about what draws you to it.