Recalling a Time When a Teacher Read Aloud

A memorable time that a teacher read to me during class was in my sophomore year. My teacher read aloud to us from the novel 'Imitate the Tiger' and it was toward the end of the book. She was so driven by the book that she was brought to tears.

It wasn't so much that the book was amazing that I remember it; it's more that I saw how literature affects people. It was more like watching a good movie when she read aloud from 'Imitate the Tiger' because of how attached my teacher was to the book and that every student knew it because of how she read the novel.
—High school senior, Oregon City schools

I can easily recall times throughout high school where a teacher has read out loud from a book, but there was nothing ever really memorable about any of the times. I'm an avid reader and find that I usually end up blocking the teacher out and reading on ahead in the text. Being read to can be nice at times but I feel that reading by myself helps me get a better grasp on what I'm reading and lets me reflect more on the text.
—High school senior, Oregon City schools