BW Readers Finish the Year with a New School Record

Congratulations, Belleville West readers!  As the 2016-2017 school year draws to a close, Belleville West students have set a NEW SCHOOL RECORD for INDEPENDENT READING!  Combined, the students at Belleville West read a grand total of 5,419,779 PAGES OF PLEASURE READING over the past nine months.

What does that mean?

If those pages were laid end-to-end, they would stretch over 727 MILES—
that’s all the way from Belleville West to Niagara Falls, New York!

If one person wanted to read that many pages, he or she would need to read one page
every minute for MORE THAN 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 $54,198!

How did the classes stack up against each other?  The CLASS OF 2020 (the FRESHMAN class) read the greatest number of pages this year, but the CLASS OF 2017 (the SENIOR class) read the greatest number of pages per student.

The CLASS OF 2020 (the freshman class) read 1,510,676 pages of pleasure reading this year. That’s an average of 2,702 pages per freshman—and the most total pages read by a class since the start of the Million Page Challenge in 2010.

These freshman classes each read more than 500 pages per student in the sixth triad:

Mrs. Hunter’s sixth hour – 1653 pages per student

Ms. Thurnau’s sixth hour – 1094 pages per student

Ms. Thurnau’s fifth hour – 882 pages per student

Ms. Thurnau’s third hour – 812 pages per student

Mr. Garland’s fifth hour – 712 pages per student

Ms. Ursani’s first hour – 648 pages per student

Ms. Loesche’s fourth hour – 603 pages per student

Ms. Ursani’s fifth hour – 533 pages per student

Ms. Thurnau’s first hour – 507 pages per student

Ms. Ursani’s second hour – 506 pages per student

The CLASS OF 2017 (the senior class) read 1,360,020 pages of pleasure reading this year.  That’s an average of 2,709 pages per senior—and more pages per student than any other class.

These senior classes each read more than 500 pages per student in the sixth triad:

Mr. Lodle’s fifth hour – 5767 pages per student

Mr. Lodle’s sixth hour – 2259 pages per student

Mr. Reidelberger’s second hour – 747 pages per student

Mr. Schobert’s first hour – 573 pages per student

The CLASS OF 2019 (the sophomore class) read 1,354,362 pages of pleasure reading this year.  That’s an average of 2,584 pages per sophomore.

These sophomore classes each read more than 500 pages per student in the sixth triad:

Ms. Schloesser’s first hour – 1790 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser’s sixth hour – 1259 pages per student

Mr. Reidelberger’s third hour – 916 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser’s third hour – 758 pages per student

Mr. Johnson’s second hour – 757 pages per student

Ms. Ursani’s sixth hour – 570 pages per student

Mrs. Lewis’s seventh hour – 513 pages per student

The CLASS OF 2018 (the junior class) read 1,194,721 pages of pleasure reading this year.  That’s an average of 2,438 pages per junior.

Theses junior classes each read more than 500 pages per student in the sixth triad:

Mr. Brunner’s sixth hour – 1088 pages per student

Mr. Spriggs’s fifth hour – 584 pages per student

Mr. Schobert’s sixth hour – 565 pages per student

Ms. Guebert’s second hour – 527 pages per student

Mr. Schobert’s third hour – 526 pages per student

Mr. Spriggs’s first hour – 507 pages per student

The ENGLISH TEACHERS read 21,012 pages in the sixth triad (their best triad of the year), for a total of 106,934 pages this year.  (That’s 5,347 pages per English teacher.)

CONGRATULATIONS to all four classes!  Keep reading this summer!