Our students come from middle-class suburbia. We're located in a small town in northeast Ohio where Friday nights mean walking to the local cafe after school to enjoy a chocolate chip cookie and football. It's a town steeped in tradition, and our kids attend school in the same building that William McKinley graduated from and Ida Tarbell taught in.
Our buildings are (literally) historical markers.
And while this is amazing, it is often not conducive to learning and playing sports in 2017. Our athletes and students are adaptive and embrace the uniqueness of our school.
My Project
Each year I have the same goal-to charm students into reading. A big part of this process is replenishing my classroom library to get my students to read because they love it. Not because they have to. Students have choice in my room, and I believe my students have fallen in love with reading because of their parents' encouragement and this free-choice reading environment. My eighth graders thrive in this environment but are stifled but need more books!
Like Gary Paulsen said, "The most, MOST important thing is to read.Read all the time; read when they tell you not to read, what they tell you not to read, read with a flashlight under the covers, read on the bus, standing on a corner, waiting for a friend, in the waiting room.
Read every minute you can. READ LIKE A WOLF EATS! Each book has the potential to turn a student on to reading. These books, while many are not released yet, are books that are on our class request list. Students provide me with a list of books they want to me to purchase. Adding this selection of books will help encourage reading for the love of reading.
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