Blog entry by Monika Antolin Kelebercová
This
week my bilingual third-grade students are giving presentations on the topic The
top 3 books everybody should have read by the age of 18. Their task was to
prepare a presentation choosing and introducing 3 different books that every
student should have read by the age of 18 and explain their choice. They were
asked to comment on the benefits reading these books brings to students’ life,
the theme, and the highlights of the chosen books. The students demonstrated a
high level of maturity, knowledge and understanding of the books’ ideas and
motifs which was reflected in captivating and interesting presentations. Among
the discussed books belong, for example, Animal Farm; The Color Purple; We Are
the Weather; The Secret; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Hunger Games, All the
Bright Places or How to Think Like A Roman Emperor. Through deep and
complex interpretations, they proved that young people still read a lot and
they have much to offer in terms of their opinions and perspectives on the
literary world.