Tatiana’s Comments (group member since Mar 16, 2013)

Tatiana’s comments from the Year 10 Reads @MHS group.

Here is your chance to be awarded for your reading/reviewing/discussions!

Goodreads competitions 2013

Reading awards -
Award: The eclectic reader
This award will go to the student who reads across a range of genres and styles.
Award: The poetry passionate
This award will go to the student who has read an interesting range of poetry
Award: Graphic Novels gourmet
This award will go to the student who has read an interesting range of graphic novels
Award: The classics enthusiast
This award will to go to the student who has read a wide range of classic literature
Students are required to email their name, form and hyperlink to their Goodreads profile. Email to sheko.tania.t@edumail.vic.gov.au
Writing awards:
The best book review
This award will go to the student who writes the most impressive book review in Goodreads. The review must also be submitted by email for inclusion in our blog and Facebook page. Email sheko.tania.t@edumail.vic.gov.au
The best online discussion
This award will go to the student who initiates and supports the richest discussion thread on any of the class or MHS groups in Goodreads. The student will email a hyperlink to their discussion on Goodreads. sheko.tania.t@edumail.vic.gov.au

Library Participation Award
The winning student will have demonstrated an ongoing interest and participation in library events and competitions. Students will email their name, form and brief list of involvements to sheko.tania.t@edumail.vic.gov.au

Deadline for applications: Friday 11th October (end of 1st week back in Term 4)

Please add the book you are currently reading to the Year 10 bookshelf. This will be an interesting, varied collection where you might discover reading ideas.

How much have our reading experiences and lists changed in the last 50 years or so? Take a look at American novelist and poet, Jack Kerouac's, to-read list. How does this compare to yours? Do you think certain literature is essential to your overall education and understanding of literary context? Should we still read any/some of the things of Kerouac's list? (age 18, 1940) What would you add to the 'essential reading list'?

1. Indian scriptures
2. Chinese scriptures
3. Old and New Testament
4. Gibbon and Plutarch
5. Homer (again)
6. Shakespeare (again)
7. Wolfe (always)
ETC. ETC.
Finnegan's Wake
"Outline of history"
Thoreau and Emerson
Joseph Conrad
Proust's "Remembrance"
Dante (again)

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The library will be running many competitions to celebrate reading in new, exciting categories.

So far we have a list of suggested categories (these will be confirmed soon):

Strategic reading - reading enrichment; anything related to the class text being studied;

Award given to a range of styles within a genre (eg not only reading books within the genre, but also reading contemporary as well as older examples of the genre);

Other categories:

Verse or poetry
Range of graphic novel
Classics enthusiast
Richest Goodreads discussion
Science-fiction supported by non-fiction
Shakespeare ethusiast
Biographies

Reading widely within genres:
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Historical
Action/adventure
Chicklit
Romance
Mystery/thriller
Detective
Paranormal
Dystopian
Steampunk
Realist
Horror
Humour

We will award these in assembly.

Please check the library catalogue before you recommend a book purchase. We are happy to buy books recommended by you.

There are many reasons why we read and why we enjoy a good book. What are some of yours?