Students Read over 4.25 Million Pages in 2022-2023

At the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, the BW English Department challenged the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes to a pleasure-reading contest. How did they do?

Together, Belleville West students read 4,257,968 pages of pleasure reading in the 2022-2023 school year! What does that mean?

If those pages were set out end-to-end, they would stretch 571 miles! That’s all the way from Belleville to Minneapolis (via the interstate highway system)!

If you read one page per minute, it would take 2,957 days (that’s over eight years) to read that many pages—without any breaks to eat or sleep!

If you had a penny for every page that Belleville West students read this year, you would have more than $42,579!

(And it’s also 90,000 more pages than students read in the 2021-2022 school year!)

How did the classes stack up against each other?

The SENIOR CLASS finished the year with 768,265 pages of pleasure reading. These senior classes read the most pages per student in the sixth triad:

• Ms. Schaab, fifth hour – 619 pages per student
• Ms. Thurnau, third hour – 501 pages per student
• Ms. Thurnau, seventh hour – 453 pages per student
• Mr. Lodle, fifth hour – 442 pages per student
• Mr. Brunner, fifth hour – 426 pages per student
• Mr. Brunner, sixth hour – 425 pages per student

The JUNIOR CLASS finished the year with 901,847 pages of pleasure reading. (The juniors had their best triad of the year in the sixth triad, reading 174,079 pages in the final six weeks!) These junior classes read the most pages per student in the sixth triad:

• Mr. Brunner, second hour – 933 pages per student
• Mr. Brunner, third hour – 888 pages per student
• Mr. Spriggs, first hour – 836 pages per student
• Mr. Schobert, sixth hour – 733 pages per student
• Mr. Schobert, second hour – 694 pages per student
• Mr. Garland, second hour – 665 pages per student
• Ms. Chalmers, sixth hour – 560 pages per student
• Mr. Garland, third hour – 520 pages per student
• Mr. Brunner, first hour – 471 pages per student
• Ms. Chalmers, seventh hour – 438 pages per student

The SOPHOMORE CLASS finished the year with 1,383,617 pages of pleasure reading. These sophomore classes read the most pages per student in the sixth triad:

• Mr. Johnson, second hour – 3328 pages per student
• Ms. Schloesser, seventh hour – 2182 pages per student
• Ms. Chalmers, first hour – 741 pages per student
• Mrs. Lewis, first hour – 513 pages per student
• Ms. Schloesser, third hour – 375 pages per student
• Ms. Schloesser, second hour – 345 pages per student

The FRESHMAN CLASS finished the year with 1,204,239 pages of pleasure reading. These freshman classes read the most pages per student in the sixth triad:

• Ms. Thurnau, first hour – 1151 pages per student
• Ms. Thurnau, second hour – 1033 pages per student
• Ms. Mims, seventh hour – 838 pages per student
• Mr. Herron, fifth hour – 678 pages per student
• Ms. Mims, sixth hour – 544 pages per student
• Mrs. Coyne, second hour – 521 pages per student
• Mrs. Coyne, first hour – 487 pages per student
• Ms. Schaab, first hour – 423 pages per student
• Mr. Herron, sixth hour – 403 pages per student

CONGRATULATIONS to the SOPHOMORE CLASS and the FRESHMAN CLASS for reading MORE THAN ONE MILLION PAGES EACH! Congratulations to all four classes on their pleasure reading totals for this year. Keep reading this summer!