We have just had our final activity - an assembly to show case student work - of our first Teen Read Week. Wow! What a success! Last year was my first year back in a library for a very long time and it took me a while to realize that though the grade 6 through 8 students read for pleasure, the students higher up in the school rarely came in the library to select a book. Casting around for a way to encourage 'teen' reading, I cam across the ALA's Teen Read Week and the 26 books nominated as the best of 2010.
Working with the English and Arts departments, I ordered multiple copies of the books while the teachers created activities within their subject areas relating to the selection. In music, students composed original music for the score of a movie, or put together a playlist of songs which would best reflect the themes of the book as a film. In drama, students hot seated characters from the books and worked on a series of tableaux which would tell something of the plot or theme of the book. In art, they designed book covers and posters.
At the moment I am mounting the book covers for a display in the library and around the school, after which I will have to make a decision on the winner of a book prize for the best poster!
Pictures to follow!
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