Antigone on Facebook: Join the Fun!
You’ve seen the signs around school and wondered what the heck was going on. Well, you’re about to find out!
Antigone on Facebook, brought to you by the Grade 10 English A class launches next week. Here’s a great chance to spend hours on Facebook while telling your parents, “But Mom! It’s homework!”
Seriously,–and it’s a serious play– the students have updated and scripted the plot of Antigone, setting it in a modern international school. You’ll follow along with the “actors” but also get to participate by adding your own comments to their status updates. Think of it as live, interactive theatre!
Click here to find out more, and learn how to get involved,
Who’s Your hero?
Check out Do Yeon’s hero book! The 10th grade Art, DT and English classes worked together to create these. We’ll post more as they finished, and they’ll be on display here in the library!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Winter Reading Challenge and the Read-A-Thon (or both!) We hope you and fun and had some great reads.
For the Read-A-Thon, now it’s time to collect the money! Please ask your sponsors for the amount they owe you, then bring the money and your tally sheet to your homeroom teacher by this Friday!
We will announce the winners of both the Read-A-Thon and the Tiny Story Contest next week.
Ditto the Pizza Party and Best Book Smackdown: We’ll announce the date for the final bash at the assembly.
Meet Jacqueline West!
This Friday, to kick off Literacy Week, Grades 3-5 will have a Skype author visit with Jacqueline West, author of The Books of Elsewhere.
So brainstorm some great questions to ask her!
EXTRA BONUS! She’s going to read us a bit of the new book she’s working on. Whoo-hoo!
World Read-Aloud Day
Imagine a world where everyone can read! Next Wednesday is World Read-Aloud Day, which we’ll celebrate as part of Literacy Week. We’ll have book buddies, a Poetry Slam and more.
Let’s celebrate!
Ever Wondered What Panam Looks Like?
Building Bridges with Libraries
ISU Library staff, faculty and students traveled to Baaganuur on Saturday, joining with BookBridge (a German NGO) and the area Peace Corps volunteer
to help set up a local public library. Volunteers labeled and barcoded over 1,000 books, making a big dent in the fiction collection.
“It was a long, bumpy ride,” said 10th grader Sodbileg, “But it was really worth it. It was cool to know you were helping people get books to read.”
