Chris Baron’s new book All of Me is a perfect mix of emotion, adversity, and deep thought. In this novel, the main character, Ari, struggles to find his place in the world as he battles himself. Tangled in a net of assumptions,…
Over spring break, I went to New Orleans (and Memphis). In case you don’t know, that’s 14 hours in my Grandma’s sedan, which offers no leg room. However, it was worth it. On the way up, I read both of my books –…
As you may know, most of our 6th grade has launched our Culture of Readers Projects. In our school, we believe it’s important to support each other and help participate, so I am currently participating in multiple initiatives. For the Iditaread (Carter, Connor, and Jack),…
We launched! On February 11th, our Mock Newbery Award Initiative was officially launched. That week, we presented to 4th, 5th, and 6th grade about our project and how we hoped to change reading in the school. We put up our shelf with all our copies…
Happy New Year! It’s been a great year of reading, and I have put together a list of the most meaningful books to me. My top 5 books of 2018 are Lucky Strike, The Westing Game, The Benefits of Being an Octopus, Full Cicada Moon,…
It’s the end of the year, but our initiatives are rolling along. We recently got our infographics approved, after some hard work. My group’s is attached, so feel free to check it out. We put a lot of work into it, and we hope it…
After making our writeup with analysis from data collection tools, we moved on to creating infographics to visually display our problem and the steps we took to collect data. Making an infographic was very challenging because of all the time and testing it…
As November progressed, our Culture of Readers projects did too. We analyzed our data, focusing on specific questions. My problem was students wanting books fresh off the printing press, and for our solution we plan to create a mock Newbery award. Some of…
During November on our Culture of Readers Journey, we are getting a lot done. It seemed to zoom by as we were put in groups to identify our problems around the school. I was put in a group with one of my friends, so I…