Journal Entry 64 Title: Quiz or Circle?

One good thing about reading circle is that people share their ideas about the novels, which can help the students understand a lot more about the book. The reading circle forces the students to read the books, which is actually good for us. But, reading quizzes is a dead thing, we can't discuss about it with the others, what we can only do is think about and writing  them down. The discussion circle is a lot more better. We can discuss it with each other, not only writing about it, or fill in the blanks. The bad thing is that we will have to discuss and make other people talk. A lot of people will choose not to participate, they just listen and sit in the corners where no one looks at. Sometime they don't even listen. Discussion groups are fun and I like it when everyone is talking and sharing ideas. It makes students feel better when everyone is contributing about the novel and their own point of view. Even though reading quiz is a good way for checking whether the students actually understand or even read what the story is about, it is pretty much a waste of time and hard for me to just look for every answer for every single questions. Reading quizzes make students want to give up on the novels.