Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl

Thoughout High School reading was assigned in every class. In science it would be an article about a new scientific theory. In social studies it would be classic textbook reading. In math it would be story problems, which were never fun. In band it would be sheet music. In art it would be magazines about new found artists. In language arts you never knew what kind of reading was going to be assigned next.

English classes were always the classes with the most assigned reading that no one ever wanted to do. The school offered many different types of english classes but no matter which one you chose you knew you were going to get assigned reading.

My freshman year I took the required english course. I learned how to write a five paragraph paper. I learned how to do reasearch in the new bigger library. Later on in the semester we did the dreaded assigned reading. We read Romeo and Juliet which was romantic but because it was required our teacher always checked to see if we read it by having us take a quiz or she made us interpret a section in the story. Interpreting something was always difficult for me no matter how hard I tried I never really grasped it. We also read The Odessy, for this story we would have to act out the different parts with a group of people. Whenever I was reading at home and my parents asked what I was reading and I would tell them and then listent to how they read that.

Later on in my sophmore year I took an advanced liturature course. I was one of the three sophmores in the class. All the rest of the students were seniors who took it for a slack off class. I was concerned if they were going to be better and more experienced readers than me. In this course we were required to read every single night. I would go home and cry because I was such a slow reader a few chapters in a book took me at least four hours. It got to the point where I would speed read it and then forget everything by the time I got to class. This did not help when it came to pop quizes or chapter summary papers. The books were culture books that had unique types of vocabulary too. When I tried to read and actually understand it, I struggled because of the unique words and the not so normal names. Everything was difficult and very uninteresting. I never wanted to do assigned reading again.

During my junior year I decided to take a classic books course. In this class we read classics that were contreversies or best