I snapped a few photos of the books my students finished this week…
The gal who finished By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead was mightily upset at the ending.
The reader gets no closure, and that frustrated her to no end.
I chuckled in understanding because I’d felt the same way when I read the book a couple of years ago.
As I put a new book into her hands, I assured her that she would get a resolution in the end. She breathed a sigh of relief as she began reading.
The gal who read P.S. I Still Love You is tearing through my books this year! She is one of the most voracious readers I’ve ever had. She’s also got an open mind and is willing to read just about anything! She already read the Lunar Chronicles series…a girl after my own heart. One day this week, she got to school and pulled out three of my books. She’d been holding them hostage at home, unbeknownst to me.
I was super proud of the young man who finished Takedown. He’s one of my Intensive Reading kiddos…a nice young man…quiet. It can be difficult to get my guys to read. He’s already started on his next book. I can’t remember the title.
The gal who read Burned eagerly began tearing into By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead. In fact, we found a sticky note stating that this girl wanted to read it next…the result of a book talk I’d done the first week of school.
Everything, Everything was finished by a quiet young lady in my first period class. I had training on Wednesday. When I returned to school on Thursday, the gal was absent, but the students sitting at her table were quick to inform me that she’d finished the book. I might have teased her on Monday about not finishing it for me last weekend. I was eager to steal it away to read myself.
Needless to say, it came home with me. I’m about a third of the way through with it and will probably finish it in the next day or two and then give a book talk on it.
Taking pictures of my kids with their finished books is a new thing for me. I plan on putting the photos in my end-of-the-year class slideshows…the uncropped versions. I cannot wait to see them sit up straighter as their faces cross the screen. I hope they will be as proud of themselves as I am every single time a back cover gets closed.
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