Why would you not read the book in it entirety first as home work or in the holiday before you are due to cover the book in class? Because not everyone has tha

Why would you not read the book in it entirety first as home work or in the holiday before you are due to cover the book in class? Because not everyone has that sort of luxury. Pre-college, I never had an actual syllubus detailing such things. Sometimes we'd get told we'd start a book every x weeks or something, but we never actually knew. Most common method of introducing books was to hand them out in class, giving a reading assignment for that night with discussion beginning the next day.