Assignment 1: Books that have affected/changed our lives
Students are asked to reflect on their reading experience to come up with one title that has changed their lives (affected them the most) and that they read as children/YA readers. The point is to select a/the book since the reading of which some time has passed and which thus allows for a comparison of differing perspectives (e.g. Robinson Crusoe has a different meaning for a child from that of an adult since as kids we tend to focus on the adventure, and not as much on issues such as slavery or religious perseverance).