- Distributed Book on every Bed books
- Distribute unit library books
- Acquire and process donations from Mercy High School
- Create spine labels for Bibliotherapy titles.
- Provide Monster to Focus unit for book club.
- Compiled student work for poetry book printing
- Created Title I order
- TCI update
December was a busy month. The Book on Every Bed program
took many man hours. Although I am still waiting on more feedback on the
program, I feel it went really well. I hope to do it next year. What an exercise in readers advisory!!
Program details:
- First, creating a pool of about 200 appropriate (no trigger-able topics) books in new condition.
- Second, matching student reading levels and interests.
- Third, labeling books and sorting for delivery.
- Finally, delivering the books.
Aside from the book give-a-way, I focused on collection
development. I worked with Ms. Armstrong to re-institute the Title I budget
from last year. I also compiled a book order list and got a quote from
Liftbridge Books. I am still waiting on final budget approval.
I also compiled a wonderful set of student poetry for the
libraries first student poetry publication. I distributed this book to all
students to contributed material and various administrators. I was very proud
of their work. The goals of this workshop were to expose students to a variety
of classic poetry and also explore self-expression and inspiration. In
addition, we focused on poetic structure and techniques. We started by reading and analyzing
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. We discussed breaking traditional rules of
writing. We then moved to the poem, Oranges by Gary Soto. With this poem we
discussed similes and metaphors and utilizing imagery in the written format.
Finally, we discussed The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. With this poem we
discussed symbolism and structure. Students also played with fun poetry formats
such as acrostic, concrete and book spine poetry.
One of my student's work
