As previously reported one of my current middle school children will be at Farragut High School. Four years ago, I began reading the Farragut High School Mandatory Summer Reads. This year in addition to reading all three of the optional books. I am also reading the Ninth Grade AP summer books. I have just completed the first of the three Ninth Grade AP books. The first one that I read was How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. I really wish that this book could have been a resource when I was in high school in the mid 1980’s. Of course the book was published in 2003. It is a book that Farragut High School indicates a student will use as a resource every year. I am pleased that I have read it and it will be a resource that I will use as a handy reference guide.

In June 2008, Thomas C. Foster published How to Read Novels Like a Professor.