Power Reading

2956

Prerequisites: English teacher or Junior High recommendation is suggested but not required. This course does not fulfill the three-year English graduation requirement. 

Power Reading is a year long class in which students read interesting, engaging and challenging books. Power Reading focuses on reading analysis through discussion. In Power Reading, students are introduced to new ways of looking at literature and language. Ultimately, Power Reading is a thinking class; through it, students are challenged to expand and deepen their thinking and analysis skills.

Power Reading will help students to become more critical and sophisticated readers. Power Reading will improve students’ performance in their regular English classes as well as in their other classes that use reading, writing, discussion, and thinking skills. Power Reading will also help students cope with their final exams and taking tests.

Power Reading is not a second “English” class. Homework in Power Reading consists of reading one or two short selections a week. Students participate in leading discussions, select reading material and work together to create the content of class. Power Reading works on building vocabulary through reading, word games, and contextual use. Possible Power Reading books might include: Welcome to the Monkey House, As You Like It, 1984, Our Town and the current One Book, One Zip Code selection.

Power Reading is open to freshmen and sophomores and the course may be repeated. Power Reading meets only twice a week and does not take an additional period in a student’s schedule because it is scheduled in the non-lab period adjacent to a student’s science class.

Teachers: 

J. Berger-White 

D. Hirsch

C. Saxman

Click here to go to Mr. Hirsch's Online Classroom Power Reading section.