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Well, we have all had to read a book for school, right? Well, what do you hate about reading a book for school and doing work on it. Like right know, we are doing a novel study where we have to answer questions and do some projects for, which I think totaly ruins the book. Why, because I am always thinking, after I read this I have to answer those questions or, I got a quiz tomorrow on this part. Which is why I read the book before we start or after, to see how the book really feels like. What also bugs me is sometimes we have to read out loud in class, which no one in my class reads much so the can pernounce many words.

What do you hate about reading for class? What do you do about it?

Well, all the books I ever had to read for school have been good book and really bothers me to write about it. Mabey if I do get a hard book to read (mabey shakespeare?) it would help me.

Yes, there is hope. I read the giver in fourth grade, like millions of other 4th graders, I escaped Shiloh(I still can't explain why I avoid that book), and went on to middle school, but the books I remember are in high school. Animal Farm wasn't my favorite, but my teacher suggested I pick up 1984, which was wondrous. She also prescribed A Separate Peace by John Knowles. There was a third book about the Jewish camps, but I can't remember the title.
Pick books with characters who act their age, dealing with issues students you teach are dealing with now, albeit a few years ahead. I remember being twelve, and reading a series about kids who acted younger than I did.
I'll be teaching in a couple years, and I'll be trying to get kids to understand Gertrude Stein. Probably as extra credit, but still.

They prolong the reading experience so much that by the time the class had reached chapter three, they have all forgotten the contents of chapter one.

the worst book i ever had to read for school was The Prince
-shudders-
-stabs book repeatedly-

I also hate that even if it is a good book, I have to sit and wait forever for the rest of the class to catch up to where i am at. I read a whole lot faster than aanyone I know. it's really annoying and destroys the reading

I actually (perversely?) enjoy reading books for school, in school. xd ; Sometimes the discussion seems really slow to me, and then everyone TAKES SO FSKING LONG, but on the whole it's actually quite nice to be able to sit down and talk about what the book means to ME with other people.

What I hate is if you get a bad teacher (I feel this is indicative of bad or at least LAZY teaching) who will lecture the entire class solely on what THEY think the book 'means,' leaving absolutely no room for personal interpretation. First of all, lecturing a class is in my eyes NEVER good. I can understand why a teacher might do that - for a large class, for instance - but if you have, say, 12 students, there is no need to lecture! And I think we can all see why dictating the 'meaning' of a book is bad.

After all, there is no universal meaning.

DUN DUN DUUUUUN.

I despise reading books in class, I hate it because I could probably finish the book in about a week and the quizes we have to take. I usually hate the book(To Kill a Mocking Bird, Tom Sawyer, A Seperate Peace), and I'm more of a sci/fi/fantisy person anyways. Or, as my friend puts it, they dont meet the body count.