[LM_NET] Hungar Games

["Mary's Gmail" <marynevares@GMAIL.COM>]

I'm a teacher at Weslaco East High School in Weslaco Texas.  Our school used
The Hunger Games as our summer reading book during the summer of 2009.  Our
principal is extremely supportive of our summer reading program and
therefore set aside funds to buy all 1,900 students a copy of the book.  Our
high school is over 90% Hispanic and most are economically disadvantaged.  

 

All of our students had to read the book during the summer and complete the
summer reading assignments, which were created by our English teachers.  All
English teachers agreed to use the summer assignment as an exam grade during
the first six weeks of school.

 

Successes:

The students really enjoyed the book.

A lot of them couldn't wait for the next book "Catching Fire" to come out.

 

Problems/Challenges:

The beginning of the book is really hard for students to get through because
they thought it was boring.

To remedy this teachers did guided reading of the first chapters in class
before sending them out for the summer.

Once the Hungar Games started the kids told me they couldn't put the book
down.

 

 

I hope this has helped you.

 

Mary Nevares

ESL Department Chair

Weslaco East High School

(956) 969-6950

mnevares@wisd.us

 

 


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