Hello everyone, Recently I sent out a link to the 'All About a Book' Quiz. If you haven't submitted a response yet, here's the link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9EPCA0QPBUalZ76rIxkEQ25OGiv8-PZMjAwDzv-qGG9UQUxIV0pSUktWVzhYRjlNRzFSQTRBVURKRS4u Feel free to submit another entry if you haven't already. I've looked through the responses and here are some of the results. For question one, there was quite an array of answers. We had several 'Lord of the Flies' and 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' which may have something to do with studying those books at school... There were quite a few 'Harry Potter' books and lots of other books of some variety. Question 2: Here's the graph of the genres read - Question 3: Lots of variety; very few capital letters. Question 4: This question was nearly exclusively answered as English, British or American. There was one American-Chinese, one German, two American-Indian, two Japanese, one very descriptive 'half Venetian but born Manchester', two Irish, one American-Venezuela, one African-American, one Canadian and one 'Unknown.' Out of 276 responses, only 13 were not British or American; that's about 4.7%. I think shows the lack of diversity of multi-ethnicity in our reading habits even today. Question 5: Here's the graph showing when the books were written - It's interesting to note that we are reading almost exclusively modern literature but still we don't read books of different backgrounds and diversity. Question 6: Most book were described as 12+ or teenage. Question 7: Here's the graph for the characteristics of the main protagonist - Question 8: Here's the graph for the setting of the book - Question 9: About rating the books out of ten (overall a very positive score) - Question 10: Again, a very varied result. Lots of people said that the book was good because it was interesting or they could relate to the character's lives and compare them with their own.
To see the answers to each of these questions in more detail, follow this link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/AnalysisPage.aspx?id=9EPCA0QPBUalZ76rIxkEQ25OGiv8-PZMjAwDzv-qGG9UQUxIV0pSUktWVzhYRjlNRzFSQTRBVURKRS4u&AnalyzerToken=Ih1qrzZzzHaIGhmF3Qjtw8Tt7h6j4cBP It gives you all the data from the responses. Thank you all for submitting responses - it is really lovely to hear what we like to read as a community and to identify strong points and weaknesses in our reading habits. I think the main weakness that I've identified is the lack of diversity in the nationality of the authors, and I think this is a really important thing to work on. On the positive sides, the answers we've got show a great variety of interests and styles of book which shows a healthy reading diet across the community as a whole. Thank you for all your support - keep your eyes open for the next reading activity for us all to enjoy!
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Dr Seal
11/9/2020 12:05:18 am
Brilliant work, Rosie. This is fascinating to see, especially the results about diversity. What can we do next to raise awareness about these stats and encourage diverse reading habits? I would love to hear your thoughts. Perhaps we could set up a challenge for students: to find new authors who introduce them to new cultures and ways of looking at the world. Best wishes, Dr Seal
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