Reflection

I found a blog about reading: Reading Rockets
Here are some readily-available young adult book suggestions. It talks about the biography of Mark Twain, supposedly being born "fully grown with a cigar between his teeth" and other favorites. This website references a lot of things that I, as an English major, have already heard of; however, it could be a good tool for getting students interested in these things as well. Just pull up this blog and you have some ready-made explanations for your students. Or have the students look up books.
I don't think I ever had a teacher have us spend time choosing the books we read. It was our responsibility to come with a book every day and if we didn't have one, we had to read one of the teacher's boring books. I'm an English major, and I remember being bored. But if I could go online and search out what I wanted to read or have the teacher or my classmates present good books, I would definitely have enjoyed the required reading time more. Of course, I did enjoy it, typically. Yet I'm not the typical English student.
Its an English teacher's job to make reading interesting. Why not a blog?