What’s on your Summer Reading List?

The school year has ended, but that doesn’t have to mean an end to good books! The BW English Department encourages students to enjoy reading this summer.

BW Students Read Over 3.7 Million Pages in 2023-2024

At the start of the 2023-2024 academic year, the BW English Department challenged the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes to each read ONE MILLION PAGES of pleasure reading during this school year.  How did they do?

Together, Belleville West students read 3,772,225 pages of pleasure reading in the 2023-2024 school year!  What does that mean?

If those pages were set out end-to-end, they would stretch 506 miles!  That’s all the way from Belleville to Atlanta (via the interstate highway system)!

If you read one page per minute, it would take 2,619 days (that’s over seven years) to read that many pages—without any breaks to eat or sleep!

If you had a penny for every page that Belleville West students read this year, you would have more than $37,722!

How did the classes stack up against each other?

The SENIOR CLASS finished the year with 795,833 pages.  They read 161,715 pages of pleasure reading during the fourth quarter.  That’s an average of 507 pages per senior.  These senior classes read the most pages per student:

Mr. Reidelberger, seventh hour – 1094 pages

Mr. Lodle, first hour – 979 pages

Ms. Schaab, fourth hour – 860 pages

Mr. Lodle, second hour – 625 pages

Mrs. Short, second hour – 574 pages

Mrs. Story, third hour – 529 pages

Mr. Brunner, fifth hour – 516 pages

Ms. Schaab, fifth hour – 486 pages

Mrs. Story, second hour – 470 pages

Dr. Johnson, first hour – 437 pages

The JUNIOR CLASS finished the year with 889,927 pages.  They read 166,284 pages of pleasure reading during the fourth quarter.  That’s an average of 387 pages per junior.  These junior classes read the most pages per student:

Mr. Schobert, fifth hour – 864 pages

Mr. Garland, fifth hour – 856 pages

Mr. Garland, second hour – 721 pages

Mr. Schobert, sixth hour – 658 pages

Mr. Garland, fourth hour – 639 pages

Ms. Chalmers, first hour – 623 pages

Ms. Chalmers, fourth hour – 620 pages

Ms. Chalmers, second hour – 606 pages

Mr. Brunner, first hour – 534 pages

Mr. Brunner, third hour – 509 pages

The SOPHOMORE CLASS finished the year with 1,025,384 pages.  They read 244,453 pages of pleasure reading during the fourth quarter.  That’s an average of 534 pages per sophomore.  These sophomore classes read the most pages per student:

Ms. Schloesser, sixth hour – 1592 pages

Dr. Johnson, fifth hour – 1178 pages

Ms. Schloesser, seventh hour – 1131 pages

Dr. Johnson, fourth hour – 742 pages

Dr. Johnson, second hour – 627 pages

Mr. Reidelberger, fourth hour – 566 pages

Mr. Reidelberger, third hour – 506 pages

Mrs. Schlich and Ms. Schloesser, first hour – 499 pages

Mrs. Lewis, second hour – 473 pages

Mrs. Lewis, first hour – 456 pages

Mr. Jenkins, fourth hour – 421 pages

The FRESHMAN CLASS finished the year with 1,061,081 pages.  They read 253,896 pages of pleasure reading during the fourth quarter.  That’s an average of 562 pages per freshman.  These freshman classes read the most pages per student:

Mrs. Story, sixth hour – 1411 pages

Ms. Thurnau, third hour – 1390 pages

Ms. Thurnau, first hour – 1215 pages

Mrs. Story, seventh hour – 1171 pages

Mrs. Story, fourth hour – 793 pages

Mrs. Mims, fifth hour – 762 pages

Ms. Thurnau, second hour – 661 pages

Mrs. Mims, sixth hour – 648 pages

Mrs. Coyne, first hour – 611 pages

Mrs. Coyne, second hour – 578 pages

CONGRATULATIONS to the SOPHOMORE CLASS and the FRESHMAN CLASS for reading MORE THAN ONE MILLION PAGES EACH!  Congratulations to all four classes on their pleasure reading totals for this year.  Keep reading this summer!

Belleville West Students Celebrate a Year of Reading

The Belleville West English Department and Belleville West Library hosted the annual Reading Celebration Day last Thursday, May 9.  The celebration included a breakfast for top readers, book chats, author presentations, a drawing for autographed books and e-readers, a book swap, word games, reading time, and distribution of new books for summer reading.