Let's Read!

If you want students to read, you have to provide them with reading material they are genuinely interested in. After two grant requests and one car wash, Mr. Stelzner, Ms. Pilgrim, me, and 14 of our 8th grade students met today at lunch over pizza to kick off our new Urban Fiction book club. We're meeting once a week during lunch to informally discuss the books the students have chosen to read.

It's really exciting watching middle school students eagerly choose from an assortment of new books. Hopefully, this is just the beginning. We'd like to expand our book club next year to include other genres middle schoolers connect with.