About how many pages of fiction novel reading do you think high school teachers should assign for homework per night?
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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
Page count by itself can be deceptive. Depending on the font size and spacing, 20 pages can be a lot or a little. It's not a great universal metric
But, ideally you'd want to dedicate at least 15 minutes of reading per night. Most people read about 200-300 words per minute. Let's just stay on the low end for comprehension purposes and aim for 200.
I think the average chapter is about 3000 words, so 1 chapter should meet that mark, however many pages that ends up being
But, ideally you'd want to dedicate at least 15 minutes of reading per night. Most people read about 200-300 words per minute. Let's just stay on the low end for comprehension purposes and aim for 200.
I think the average chapter is about 3000 words, so 1 chapter should meet that mark, however many pages that ends up being
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4meAndyou · F
He says it is a fiction novel, so it can't be that horrible. If I was a teacher I would take 3 hours, which is the time a good student should be spending each night on homework, divide it by 6, (number of classes which assign homework), which is 30 minutes, and then read for 30 minutes, trying to absorb, and see how many pages HE gets through. Then subtract 10, because his students will be slower, and that is the number of pages he should assign.
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EmilyEdith · 56-60, F
My kids were really busy with jobs, college apps, their social lives and after school activities by High School. They would get assigned a book and a certain amount of time in which to finish it. It helped them learn to manage their time themselves. No one follows you around in college.
I'd like the teacher to assign the book and let the kids read at their own pace, like we do when we read for fun. No need to make them resent it.
I'd like the teacher to assign the book and let the kids read at their own pace, like we do when we read for fun. No need to make them resent it.
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33person · 26-30, M
@NativeOregonian Then it sounds like the entire book had like 10 chapters. Frankenstein has 24 chapters, so you can see how one chapter of that per night would make it take forever.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@kutee Shakespeare was fun reading during English class in jr high.
Spoiledbrat · F
I don’t have a credential so don’t see how I would know that.
Wales · M
None.
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REMsleep · 41-45, F
When I was in highschool we did not read a lot of fiction. I took AP literature and we would cover one particular book for a period of time and usually we knew which books would be read all semester. So theoretically you could read them all in Summer break or Christmas break time. There would only be 3 or 4 per semester.