I got more requests for a hit than suggestions. :-( But the people who
came through were very helpful. Thanks to all who responded! I'm sure
I sent an individual reply
lm
The TARGET:
One of our former students has written a book (__Three little words : a
memoir__ by Ashley Rhodes-Courter) ; we are thinking of reading her book
as part of the One Book - One School type program.
If you have participated in a One Book, One School Program ... we have a
few questions:
1) How did you fund it?
2) How did you logistically do it?
a) did students read during a particular class?
b) did they read a certain number of pages a day/week/month?
c) were they supposed to read during or outside of class?
d) did you have study guides, certain questions...who wrote them?
3) Did you actually give every student a book?
4) Anything you want to tell us about your experience would be
appreciated
The HIT:
We have done this for 6 years at our middle school (1250 student, grades
6-8) We use our library money from fines, PTA, bookfair, and purchase
classroom sets. This year we have 4 sets of 30 books each . They are
all paperback. The librarians introduce the book with activity, self
made movie, slideshow with music, or whatever we come up with to peak
their interest. We sometimes have a vocabulary list or activity
suggestions and often a concluding activity. We rotate the books
through the school with willing teachers. It has been very successful
and the classroom sets stay around and are used year after year with new
students. It ends up being a novel study in a box that the librarians
created. Teachers love it. It is already done for them. We usually buy
the book on tape or cd for the classrooms also. Students listen and read
along. The books don't go home with the students. Reading takes place
in class so it takes a while to get through the novel. Sometimes we
don't reach every student. Purchasing more sets would solve that
problem. If you want to see the materials for this year's novel, Lizzie
Bright and the Buckminster Boy, go to the library web site at
http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/tuckahoems/hoel_l/libraryindex.html
<http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/tuckahoems/hoel_l/libraryindex.html>
and scroll down to the cover of the book on the left side.
Hope that helps,
Lollie
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www.onebookoneschool.pbwiki.com
I will gladly answer any questions.
Good luck.
Ann
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We just did our first One Book - One School activity, although we are a
middle school, I think it would work about the same. We chose a book on
bullying. The principal had enough money to buy one paperback copy of
the book for each classroom teacher plus about 10 extra copies for
guidance, assistants, etc. Because every student didn't have a copy, the
book was read to them. We had a hard time deciding when this would take
place. At first we thought during Reading class, but decided against
that, our reasoning being we wanted to show the students that all
teachers felt bullying was an issue, not just the Reading teachers. We
left it up to each grade level team as to when they wanted to read it
each day. Letting them decide meant that it wasn't always first period,
for example, they could stagger the time over the week. One huge issue
was teachers being upset about losing teaching time. Next year when we
do it, we will have advisories, and it will be done during advisory. We
didn't have that option this year. We gave each teacher a folder with a
schedule of what pages they were responsible for each day, a list of
discussion questions for each days reading, a vocab list, a teacher's
guide to the book, and some other activities they could do if they
wanted. In reality, I don't think anyone took the time to do the
optional activities. I wrote the questions. Then we were lucky enough to
have money to have the author come to school and speak to each grade.
Because we were focusing on bullying, we gave the students a bullying
survey prior to reading the book. The data was interesting that we
obtained.
I know that some of that won't apply to you, but it was fun.
Diana
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At our school, we call it Community Read and we are in our third year.
The book is selected in the spring by a committee of faculty, staff and
students. It isn't really funded other than that the faculty get a free
copy to read. Students are asked to purchase the book to read over the
summer. Classroom activities begin in September involving speakers on
the subject, assemblies with the author (if possible), and work in the
classroom. We don't have study packets or questions. Everyone is asked
to read the book, and then be able to discuss it.
Our first year we read Arc of Justice, last year we read Nickel and
Dimed, and this year's title was Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Mary
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) How did you fund it?
Donations from businesses in our local community and PTO.
2) How did you logistically do it?
a) did students read during a particular class? Students read the
books through their reading class during a Drop Everything and Read time
2x weekly.
b) did they read a certain number of pages a day/week/month? No.
We did not require that student read the book beyond the DEAD time. We
only encouraged it and had activities around the content of the book.
Our One Book Project ran for 4 weeks. This time period was decided by
the length of the book.
c) were they supposed to read during or outside of class? Optional.
Not required.
d) did you have study guides, certain questions...who wrote them? I
prepared a discussion guide (librarian)
3) Did you actually give every student a book? Yes. Free to keep.
4) Anything you want to tell us about your experience would be
appreciated :-)
It is a lot of work. We had a committee of teachers with
sub-committees. ie) fundraising, book selection, activities/events,
publicity, launch party, culminating event
Our goal is just to increase literacy by making it a fun event.
We plan about one year in advance. We just finished our 2nd year
project in Dec. 07. We are starting again this February with planning
for the 08-09 school year.
Shelby
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lm
Lynette (LYNN) Mitchell
Library Media Specialist
Crystal River High School
1205 NE 8th Ave.
Crystal River, Florida 34428
mitchelll@citrus.k12.fl.us
352-795-4641 ext: 248
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