In my opinion, middle school reading material really sucks. I don’t like it because one, they are chock-full of hard vocabulary, two, no matter where you are, in school, at home, in camp, you are expected to write an essay about it, and three, I strongly dislike most of the content in those stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First of all, I don’t like the fact that I have to take the time to search up so many words that I don’t understand. I think my vocabulary is pretty decent one day and then suddenly I read something on a middle school level, and boom<\/em>–my self esteem drops by a ton<\/em>. It takes too much time and energy to flip open a computer (hardly anybody uses dictionaries anymore now that we have Google), type in the word, and somehow try to comprehend what comes up. When I can’t understand even the meaning<\/em> of the word, I look at the synonyms and then scold myself because I feel dumb. And–look at the time! It’s been three minutes. And because the stories I’m reading are so full of these kinds of words, a block of text that should’ve taken me only twelve minutes to read ends up being around thirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Second of all, we are expected to write something about every single story that we read. In school, we have opinion essays, graded essays, timed essays, long essays, short essays… I dislike that we have to write so much about whatever we read. I would like to just read a book in class for the fun of it instead of in preparation for some writing assignment to come later in the year. At home, (Well, I don’t know for you, but for me) I get asked to do this random thing and then the next second I get asked to do that random thing and–who knows what you’re going to be asked next! I wouldn’t be surprised if I had to do some other sort of writing assignment later. My mom signed me up for this camp so I guess this could count as assigned essays, because the whole point of this is so that my writing and reading can improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third of all, I don’t like what I’ve read so far with middle school content. If it’s not kidnapping, shooting, poisoning, or other forms of killing, then it’s probably stuff like what I read today about Victor and the french scowling. And I’m not a big fan of either, if you get what I mean. During my years at the lower school, I quickly grew fond of series like Harry Potter<\/em>, The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/em><\/em>, or even Wings of Fire<\/em>. These stories revolved around things like magic, mysteries or riddles, or adventure instead of just<\/em> poisoning, and they weren’t even that realistic. It’s much creepier reading a realistic story of kidnapping and then asking for ransom from a rich guy than reading a book about mythical color-changing dragons who sleep and bask in the sun twenty-four seven, lazily eating fruit, and occasionally rolling their eyes because some queen from 100 miles away died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But then again, that’s just my<\/em> opinion on things like the vocabulary, the amount of work associated with the reading, and the content of middle school stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my opinion, middle school reading material really sucks. 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