We pitted required reading against recreational reading. We only had a couple weeks, since spring break occupies the last two weeks of March, so we began with a bracket of sixteen--eight books we selected from class reading lists to compete against eight of our most popular fiction books.
The above image is the poster we made and posted around school; students came to the library and voted on the first round and selected their final pick using the form below.
Each round of voting was open for a day or two over the next two weeks; as the brackets were narrowed down, we made new voting forms for each round.
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| Round 2 |
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| Round 3 |
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| Final Round |
We had fun tweeting and posting about the results. Westeros' got nothing on Hogwarts; Katniss creamed Tris. No one wants to hang out with Holden Caulfield, especially when Jay Gatsby's around to throw a party. And not even Lady Macbeth could pull one over on Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. But Harry Potter won it all, of course--no surprise there, even with a last-minute faculty meeting bumping up the votes for poor old Frankenstein, considering that our students are the generation that grew up with Harry and company. We had about 20 students, teachers, and other staff voting each day, so it was a successful and entertaining little contest. Two students came closest to predicting the final path to victory, and they were rewarded with copies of Winger by Andrew Smith and Patrick Ness' new novel More Than This. We'll do it again next year, maybe pitting the classics against science fiction, or popular nonfiction against fiction. Book madness!
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