I can't tell you how excited I am that it is only February 16 and I already have 19 students registered for my reader advisory class. I'm going to have people begging me to get into the class (I hope). I would love nothing more than to have a huge group of people to work with. I can't wait for March 30 (the first day of class) to arrive!

So today at lunch I was doing some research for the class (again, I'm really excited for it to start), and I came across an intriguing idea for an assignment in this book. In the book the author discussed her annual Five Book Challenge. Each year she selects a genre/subgenre that is new to her, and reads five books from that genre. She noted that doing this gives her an appreciation for the genre, in addition to a better familiarity with it.

How cool is that? Not only is this something I think I will implement into my own reading this year, but I think this would be a perfect final project for my students. I was already planning on having them do a genre study for their final project, so this would only be expanding on the idea a bit. The only thing I can't decide is the number of books they should read. Five is probably unreasonable for a ten week class. Would asking them to read three books make me a complete bitch? Or is that reasonable? Any help would be appreciated. :-)

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