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Reading Up

by Julie Buckingham

Every day students go read the plays in class. Every-
home and do all of their home- one in class takes turns reading
work except for the dreaded different parts of the play. I
reading, if they even do it at really don't do any outside of
all. Students we're known to class reading," senior Jenny
put off reading assignments Schartow said.
until there was a test or quiz AP English required a
over it. Like if a teacher lot of reading outside of class.
assigned a book that was due Independent novels, class
in a month there were students novels, and various short
who would put it off until the stories and poems were all read
last moment . at various times. Keeping on
"Last month my honors top of reading assignments was
English teacher assigned a a big task.
book that was due in three "We read a poem or two
weeks on a Monday, and I every night, two to four books a
didn't read it until the Sunday year, and we are also reading
before it was due. All I did on individual novels all of the
Sunday was read that stupid time," senior Morgan
book, and it wasn't even Campbell.
interesting. Don't think I am However there were
the only one that did this, classes that had little reading.
because about 11 other kids in For instance, in advanced
my class did it too," sopho- algebra, the only reading
more Val Chermok. assignment was to learn the
In Shakespeare, most formulas.
of the reading assignments "We don't have much
were completed outside of reading with the exception of
class. A Midsummer Night's the research of mathemati-
Dream, Othello, Hamlet, and cians," sophomore Audrey
Twelfth Night were all plays Brass ill.
that the class read throughout Whether it was a little or a
the semester. lot, reading was important in
"In Shakespeare, we almost every class.

Junior Jamie O' Brien reads a
magazine in the library.
Magazines provided reading that
most students enjoyed more th an
novels or textbooks . photo by
Sandra Springer
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