The Hunger Games By Junior High School

When I was younger, I didn’t like reading much at all. I always questioned my teachers what was the purpose of reading; I never got an answer from either teacher until I was in the seventh grade. Starting junior high school was different from elementary. In seventh grade, we were in our reading class for two hours a day. I asked the teachers why didn’t we have the privilege to stay in our other classes for two hours; I never received an answer from my teachers. Reading always became tiresome to me. We had a reading block in class everyday. The reading block was to make us read fifteen minutes straight a day. Ms. Peshca, my seventh grade teacher, ensured that the class would read. I never read the books until we started reading The Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games was the book that caught my attention. At the time we started reading The Hunger Games the movie was out. I would go to sleep everyday in class while reading the book, because I watched the movie and thought I knew what was going on. We took test throughout chapters, and I didn't score what I wanted. That made me started reading the book. I realized that it was different from the movie.

My teacher, Ms. Peshca, came to a conclusion to that she didn’t know what to do or how to explain to me what’s the importance of reading. Ms. Peshca would send me to another reading teacher, and she would try to explain things better than her. Ms. Bell would sit me down and go through different books with me. I wasn’t interested in books that were my age appropriate. I started reading books that were not friendly with age group. I wasn’t focused long because the books were shorter. I still didn’t read much after that, but she did explain that I would know how to read after school and to be successful in