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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I think I might have appreciated Shakespeare (or any other author from well before my own time) more if I had a teacher who put in that much effort.
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I guess I went to a pretty good school system, then...that was how we studied most of the books that we did. We would do one book each quarter, from middle school through high school, and each one became part of the curriculum. All grammar lessons were tied to that book. We would talk about the concepts and characters that were in the book, along with what time period the book took place in and the period that the book was written in, and how that affected the writing. We learned about the author of the book, and what their life was like. If there was a movie associated with the book, we would watch it during the last week of the quarter, after we had already had the final exam on the book.
With regards to the Summer reading question, we always had a Summer reading "challenge" where you just kept track of all of the books you read (with parents signing off on it) and the top 5 (or maybe it was 3) from each class got prizes. I participated for a few years, and then just stopped because the teachers never believed my list. The last year I did it (4th grade) they actually called my parents and yelled at them, because some of the books on my list were "too adult" for me to have read. After that, I would write down a couple of books that I thought the teachers would approve of, and call it good. The "prizes" weren't worth the hassle.
Shari