Setting the Right Tone
With this year’s unique scheduling, we have a great opportunity to promote reading and literacy in our building in a powerful way. Six times throughout the course of our fall trimester, we will provide our 10-12 th graders with twenty minute windows to enjoy the chance to read. While the popular narrative suggests that no one really reads anymore, the truth is that we probably read more (in text print) than we have ever done before. In 2005, Gallup found that there had been a 22% increase in U.S. readers who claimed to be actively reading from the data taken in 1957. And despite the fear that movies and online entertainments have pulled time away from reading, we discover that in many cases they promote it. Blockbuster hits like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, and Twilight all suggest that the book themselves have a symbiotic relationship with books. Social networking sites have also drawn more people to ...