Final

The two books that should be definite keepers are The Power of One and Haroun. Both of these stories are really easy reading and most importantly enjoyable to read. The Power of One might be a really long book but it really good and tells you a lot about South Africa during the apartheid years, and Haroun is a little bit of a different type of book, but I think that it shows the difference between American writings and foreign writings really well. I have never read a book like Haroun and was a bit skeptical at first, but it the end I really liked it.

The thing that we should get rid of was all the short stories in the Australia unit. I never really got into any of them and thought most of them were boring. The only one that i think you could keep out of that group of stories is Bush Rangers because it was somewhat interesting. I just didn't enjoy reading stories that are to short that you can't get into. To me it was just really hard to try forcing myself to read them.

I think that the blogs are a really good and innovative idea for journals. For me it was really nice since I am always on the computer and i don't have to leave what I am doing to go write my English assignments. The only bad thing about the online blogs is that some students may not have Internet access at home or a computer and this might cause problems for them or they might be able to complete their assignments. So if you try this blog thing again I think that you should make sure all your students have a computer and Internet or have access to a computer.