Reading as a Teacher
If you haven't heard, in about two months, I'll be starting my first school year as a proper, real-life, actual high school English teacher. I have loved reading basically since I could hold a book (if this ridiculous blog isn't a good enough indicator) but nowadays, I have the opportunity to approach it from a new stance. Now, when I pick up a book, I read it for myself on one level, and on another level, I think, "How would I teach this? What would a student think of this book? What would make this book worth teaching to my students?" This type of thinking has really opened up a new way for me to comprehend and process the books I read and made me even more excited to take on teaching. A great example of this self-observed phenomena is the book I've most recently finished: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. I've read other Ness before (check out my post reviewing The Rest of Us Just Live Here ) and enjoyed him, but Knife was a different ge