The Mid-term project

Start with topic or genres that you love

Use websites to help you

• WhatShouldIReadNext.com: start with an author or book you love, click the closest match from the list that pops up, and then this site will generate a list of books you’ll probably like based on your initial author/title. Pretty cool.
• GoodReads: This is social networking for readers. Join (you can use your Facebook credentials) and then find friends and see what they’re reading, find interest-based groups, search book lists, or join a discussion.
• BookBrowse.com: The “Read Alikes”  service here is similar to WhatShouldIReadNext but the lists of comparable books is handpicked by other readers.
• WhichBook: Choose your book by mood or other fun factors, like Happy or Sad, Beautiful or Disgusting, Conventional or Unusual.

Make the time to read. Make it important. Make it a priority.

• Read in the bathroom
• Read in line
• Read while you are waiting for . . . anything
• Read before you go to bed
• Read in a favorite chair on a rainy day
• Read outside on a sunny day

Use the 50-page rule

If you are not into it by the 50th page there is no sin in saying that this book is not for you.

Start a reading notebook

It could be a Pinterest board, a note on Facebook, a list on your phone, a folder of photos, your GoodReads account etc.

Find your reading spot

• Make it comfortable
• Where you cannot be disturbed
• Turn off your phone
• Have a good light
• Have some tea or some other beverage of your choice
• Maybe eat the food you might be reading about
• Read with someone else who appreciates reading (fun to read to each other)

How to become an avid reader (and why)

For your mid-term assignment 

You will document, over the next two weeks your relationship with reading a book. You will take pictures and create a narrative for presentation on Monday, Oct. 16. 

This will include: 

• Pictures of you finding a book that works for you (minimum of five photos)
• Documenting when and where you read the book plus how many pages at a time you read (minimum of five photos)
• Take five photos the explain the plot of the book (This is the really creative part - minimum of five photos)
• Write an extending puke (plus you should be doing this the whole time in order to write about you are documenting) about how you felt about the process of the course of time you have read the book. Again, this is an opportunity to get really creative. Last five photos. 

Create a slideshow in Adobe Spark Pages (We will go over this in class.) 

Here is one of the best examples from a couple of years ago.