[ISLMA-Share] One Book, One School AND Sister School Projects - Middle School

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For a One School, One Book title I would recommend Death by Toilet Paper.

We used Death by Toilet Paper by Donna Gephart for our middle school sponsored community-wide read this past winter, and it was one of our best years.  The book has so much empathy for poverty, single parenthood, and grandparents with Alzheimer’s.  We did numerous activities related to toilet paper (science, art, fashion, etc.), and Donna’s visit to our school was absolutely fabulous.

Jeanne Brucher
Teacher-Librarian
jbrucher at geneseoschools.org <mailto:jbrucher at geneseoschools.org>
Geneseo Middle School (309) 945-0524
Geneseo High School (309) 945-0316



> On Sep 2, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
> 
> Hi All, 
> I hope the school year is going well so far for those of you already back at school. 
> I want to pick the collective brain about a couple of things:  
> 
> 1. ONE BOOK, ONE SCHOOL TITLES
> We are trying to brainstorm titles for a one book, one school selection to be used for summer reading for our middle school students next year with follow-up with programs and events in Fall 2017.
> What books have you used successfully with middle school students? 
> 
> 2. SISTER SCHOOLS
> For the last several years, the middle school where I work has partnered with charities where we direct fundraising efforts for the year toward the cause and build student learning experiences that go along with the organization's work. 
> This year I proposed building a sister school(s) type of relationship as the project for the year where we could bring students together and build some sort of collaborative learning projects to learn with/from students from different types of communities (Highland is a suburban school). 
> Has anyone worked with a sister school in the past? 
> Would anyone be interested in talking about such a partnership with your school?
> (Nothing is official yet...but I want to do the background work). 
> 
> Thanks for any insight and interest, 
> Erin 
>  
> Erin Wyatt, Ph.D.
> Learning Center Director
> Highland Middle School
> 310 W. Rockland Rd. 
> Libertyville, IL 60048
> http://www.d70schools.org/~hlc <http://www.d70schools.org/~hlc>
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