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Dear Everyone, Last year, I joined a school committee working on ways of improving the 9th grade transition to high school. One of the new activities for 9th graders this year will be an 20 minute advisory every day. At my insistence, one day a week of our "Freshman Forum" will be a reading day. Since it will only be 20 minutes a week, I have urged the nine teachers leading the Forums to read aloud to the students. To make things easier for these teachers, I spend a lot of time this summer reading short stories and writing summaries of stories that I thought would be suitable to read to 9th graders. I have ordered the collections not currently owned by my library. After attending a Library 2.0 workshop over the summer, I created a Books to Read blog http://joanneshawhan.wordpress.com/ containing my story summaries. Please send me the names of other good short story collections. I will be continuing to add to my short story lists. I also intend to use the blog for other kinds of book lists during the year. I thought it was pretty cool to be creating a book blog and not a lot of work. Joanne ------------------------------------- Joanne Shawhan Library Media Specialist Cobleskill-Richmondville High School 1353 State Route 7--PO Box 490 Richmondville NY 12149 (518)234-3565 x1151, 1152 (518) 234-9006 (fax) joanneshawhan@verizon.net shawhanj@crcs.k12.ny.us http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/lib/hs/index.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------