BW Students Read 5.2 Million Pages in 2013-2014

CONGRATULATIONS, BELLEVILLE WEST READERS!  As the 2013-2014 school year draws to a close, each class has read more than one million pages of pleasure reading!  Combined, the students at Belleville West have read a grand total of 5,202,879 PAGES OF PLEASURE READING over the past nine months.

What does that mean?

If those pages were laid end-to-end, they would stretch almost 700 miles—that’s all the way from Belleville West to Dallas, Texas!  Plus another 50 miles!

If one person wanted to read that many pages, he or she would need to read one page every minute for TEN YEARS!  Without ever stopping to eat or sleep!

If you had one penny for every page read by a Belleville West student this year, you would have $52,028!

How did the classes stack up against each other?  The CLASS OF 2017 (the freshman class) read the greatest number of pages this year.  In fact, they read more pages than any class has read since the start of the Million Page Challenge in 2010.  But the CLASS OF 2015 (the junior class) read the most pages per student this year.

The CLASS OF 2017 (the freshman class) has read 1,457,298 pages for pleasure.  That’s an average of 2,429 pages per freshman.

The freshman classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mrs. Thurnau’s first hour:  1019 pages per student

Mrs. Hunter’s fifth hour:  692 pages per student

Ms. Ursani’s first hour:  681 pages per student

Mrs. Thurnau’s sixth hour:  656 pages per student

Mrs. Short’s fourth hour:  590 pages per student

Ms. Ursani’s second hour:  589 pages per student

Mrs. Thurnau’s fifth hour:  565 pages per student

Mrs. Thurnau’s third hour:  500 pages per student

The CLASS OF 2016 (the sophomore class) has read 1,305,350 pages for pleasure.  That’s an average of 2,246 pages per sophomore.

The sophomore classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mrs. Spriggs’s fifth hour:  979 pages per student

Mrs. Lewis’s fourth hour:  823 pages per student

Mr. Johnson’s fifth hour:  660 pages per student

Mr. Johnson’s fourth hour:  623 pages per student

Mr. Johnson’s second hour:  585 pages per student

Mrs. Spriggs’s second hour:  563 pages per student

Mr. Reidelberger’s third hour:  563 pages per student

Mr. Reidelberger’s fourth hour:  522 pages per student

The CLASS OF 2015 (the junior class) has read 1,313,817 pages for pleasure.  (That’s an average of 2,838 pages per junior.)

The junior classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mr. Brunner’s sixth hour:  2,181 pages per student

Mr. Brunner’s fifth hour:  1,260 pages per student

Mr. Brunner’s second hour:  1,124 pages per student

Mr. Brunner’s first hour:  623 pages per student

Mrs. Story’s fourth hour:  619 pages per student

Mr. Spriggs’s fifth hour:  550 pages per student

Mr. Spriggs’s third hour:  484 pages per student

Ms. Sage’s first hour:  481 pages per student

The CLASS OF 2014 (the senior class) has completed 1,126,414 pages of pleasure reading.  (That’s an average of 2,605 pages per senior.)

The senior classes with the highest reading totals for the sixth triad are:

Mr. Garland’s second hour:  1,469 pages per student

Mrs. Short’s second hour:  640 pages per student

Mrs. Lewis’s seventh hour:  514 pages per student

Mrs. Thurnau’s seventh hour:  480 pages per student

Mr. Johnson’s first hour:  459 pages per student

Mr. Brunner’s third hour:  448 pages per student

Ms. Hoelscher’s first hour:  424 pages per student

Mr. Lodle’s sixth hour:  401 pages per student

Congratulations to all four classes!  Each class easily surpassed the goal of one million pages.  Keep reading, Belleville West!