Makeup Blog #13: Independent Reading Project

The issue that I've had all semester with the independent reading essays is that my books don't exactly help in any way shape or form. I feel like I have to get really creative with my answers if I want to even be able to write an essay over my guiding question. I don't know if this is cheating or not, I don't think is because we've had the same guiding question over all three books, but the night before I read this last one (which I loved I might add) I had to sit and come up with how it answered my question for a solid 45 minutes and I think I only really came up with like one or two ideas that I wrote about. When we first made this project at the end of last semester I probably should have come up with more than one guiding question. I also think maybe my question was too specific because none of my books even touched on it. My topic was all about why people get divorced but I made it more specifically about how much money and communication affected divorce. Yes, my books were about divorce but they didn't exactly take you through the divorce and get to the hity gritty of why the couples couldn't stay together any longer. This last book especially was barely about the parents, it was more about the child they had together and their seperate dating lives after their divorce. It was really hard picking out books for this project so I don't think I could have picked any different books, but still. I found the independent reading essays rather difficult and I'm glad they are done.