Independent Reading Expectations

At the center of our reading curriculum is where the mind meets the book.  The response.   In our independent reading, we must invite the messiness of human response–our personal prejudices, tastes, habits, and experiences.  We must invite personal meaning and the distinct possibility that we become someone who sees reading as logical, personal, and habitual–someone who just plain loves to read.  For that to happen, you’ve got to read what you love,  often.  I want you to be in the habit of losing yourself in a good book for at least a half an hour every day.