Welcome!

Welcome all to my new blog!  This is not going to be your traditional blog in which it is a journal about my daily life. I want to tell you about what I have read.  I am a History and English teacher. Therefore I want my students to read.  Does this mean that I want them to read novels, nonfiction books, or magazine articles? I want them to read ANYTHING! As long as they are reading, I am happy.  Practice makes perfect on an instrument, and I feel like books are the exact same way. What does reading help? Reading exercises your brain. Reading increases your vocabulary. More reading increases your comprehension (ability to understand what you are reading). My biggest favorite reason to read: it improves your writing ability. How did you learn to talk? You mimic mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin, television etc. How do you learn to write well? You mimic what you read! It works the same way.  Bottom line!  I want to tell you what I read (past or present) so that you can read it too and join me in a discussion of what you thought of it.