Amatos students at maplewood high school want to inspire all children in nashville to become lifelong readers by making books more accessible. Teacher librarians in the district will use grant funds to start project lit book clubs for teens in the community. Join in a conversation about the novel a very large expanse of sea by tahereh mafi. The fin lit project flp is a community education program directed by the samaritan centers senior case manager.
The idea is to have students read high quality, relevant literature booked, and then meet with community members who have also read the book to discuss what they read. Project lit community is a grassroots literacy movement reaching students across the u. Project lit community is a national, grassroots literacy movement, in which a team of dedicated teachers and students work together in forming a schoolwide and sometimes communitywide literary community. Community service is often organized through a local group, such as a place of worship, school, or nonprofit organization, but you can also start your own community service projects. Project lit is a program started by a teacher and students here in nashville. Part of the countywide journey toward inclusive excellence initiative. Project lit has already made an impact on boudreauxs class. Project lit community a grassroots network of book groups that aims to get students excited about reading by highlighting diverse, high. Project lit community is a nashvillebased organization dedicated to increasing book access and bringing people together through reading. Like, this dude had the wild idea of setting up a book club introducing books relevant to. Proud to announce project lit community jarred amato.
The founding chapter, one of more than 500 across the country today. Rather than the traditional school day in which teachers talk and students listen, project lit at croft makes intentional time when students and teachers work together as a team of learners and booklovers. Community book gives you easy access to local groups, volunteering opportunities and events. How a classroom project can impact an entire community. Our project lit community believes wholeheartedly that if we increase book access and access to highquality, culturally sustaining books.
Find, create, and collaborate on books created by the rebus community. Project lit na strives to increase access to relevant, engaging, diverse books in each of their schools and share a love of reading with their pittsburgh neighbors. Booksource is the premier trade book distributor to k12 school classrooms across the country. Project lit community book club inclusive impact institute. Join in a conversation about hey, kiddo by jarrett krosoczka with project lit battle, a student book club from battle high school. Project lit is more than just delivering books it has also created a monthly reading breakfast club where students from throughout the district gather to read a specific book. Project lit community is a national, grassroots literacy movement, a growing network of dedicated educators and students who work together to increase access to diverse. For every product sold a donation is being made to project lit community. Project lit the hate u give donorschoose project by ms.
How a nashville educator turned a class project into a nationwide movement. What we could solve was bringing people together around books and around culturally relevant books. The national flood insurance program community status book. Project lit book club igniting readers, literary leaders. Theres a projectlit movement spreading like wildfire. Our initial aim was to eliminate book deserts and promote a love of reading here in nashville, and over the course of the 201617 school year, we collected more than 15,000 books, set up a dozen lit libraries converted usa today newsstands in community centers and ymcas, and planned four communitywide, project lit book clubs to celebrate. The rebus press is a pressbooks network available to members of the rebus community producing cc by licensed open textbooks.
Project lit book club ya selections 20192020 booksource. Saturday 23rd november marked an important day in the literary sphere in ghana as booktique ghana an online bookstore and eananse library partnered to launch the project lit community at an event dubbed just read it book meetup. Stay tuned for more information, book club meeting dates, and events. Project lit community book club daniel boone regional. From there, students wrote persuasive letters to community members and business leaders, which described project lit community and how they could help. In this workshop youll learn why project lit book clubs matter, how they create opportunities for youth leadership, community building, and multigenerational and crosscultural connections, and if. The bungalows will increase access to books, promote literacy in the community and promote the community working.
Let them know you are looking for our project lit mac books, and linda will give you 25% off your project lit book purchases. A grassroots literacy movement empowering readers and leaders in hundreds of schools and communities around the world. The intent of this program is to go into hamilton county schools and engage youth in grades 38 in discussion and activities around the topics of financial literacy and basic economics. We offer discounted pricing, free shipping and unparalleled.
In september of 2018, i attended my first project lit book club at hightstown high school with the high school media specialist, a ninth grade english teacher, and a. Amato and maplewood high school students, aims to increase access to diverse books and promote a love of reading in schools and communities across the country. The students read novels, then work to organize and facilitate project lit. The national flood insurance program community status book this page lists national flood insurance program nfip community status reports by state, territory, or nation. We recently launched a book drive with the goal of collecting 5,000 new and used books to place in little libraries. Project lit community a grassroots network of book groups that aims to get students excited about reading by highlighting diverse, highinterest, culturally relevant books has officially named their picks for the 20192020 school year. The project lit libraries in the community was born. Lets connect our global literary community in a time of closed borders. We love that our book list and community continues to grow. Book bungalows a community project literacy for life. Library project lit community tuscaloosa city schools. Project lit has gained traction throughout the country and has led to the creation of book clubs and annual suggested reading lists for high schoolers and middle schoolers.
They work together to empower students as readers and leaders in their school and community. Theres a projectlit movement spreading like wildfire and im here for it for several months now ive been following jarred amatos crazy book club antics on twitter. From pa announcements, to connecting with your local teen librarian, to attending fun book events with students, youll walk away with concrete steps you can take to get more people involved in your community book clubs. We realized students were confused about what project lit is since its more than simply a book club, but since several ela teachers were. Project lit bronx is a youthled community book club in the south bronx. In the book, the main character, august auggie pullman, has been homeschooled due to some complicated health issues related to a dramatic craniofacial abnormality and the rigorous surgery schedule that comes with it. At project lit meetings, all team members interact as equals everyone contributes, and everyone has fun. Join project lit battle, a student book club from battle high school, to discuss books that explore the social justice issues impacting our world. Jarred amato and his maplewood high school students founded project lit community in august 2016 with the goal of eliminating book deserts and promoting a.
Amato and maplewood high school students, aims to increase book access and spread a love of. Flood our schools and communities with highquality, culturally relevant books. Today well share what project lit community means to our family of. Author jarred amato posted on may 17, 2019 categories uncategorized leave a comment on project lit mailbag book lists, tips, and reminders.
We realized that book access was obviously a huge problem and remains a huge problem, but we werent going to be able to solve that as a class. Project lit community aims to increase access to high quality, diverse books and promote a love of reading in all schools and communities. The color of water james mcbride darius the great is not okay adib khorram hope nation rose brock. Project lit funded by grant offers diverse books to. Project lit community is a grassroots literacy movement empowering readers and leaders in hundreds of schools and communities across the country. Several teachers participated in the project lit summit in nashville, tn to learn more about building a community of readers at nms. Empower students as readers and leaders in their school and community. Community service can help many different groups of people. Project lit is a literacy movement aimed at increasing access to highquality, diverse books, as well as promoting a love of reading both in the school and community. Hear world editions authors read from their works, discuss the current situation in their countries, and talk about what books mean to them during covid19. Please select the state, territory or nation to see the report. It was created in september of 2017 and is part of the national project lit community, a growing network of dedicated teachers and students who work together to increase access to diverse books, eliminate book deserts, and spread a love of reading in our schools and. Individuals and community groups have taken on the care of these wonderful additions to our community.
In this video, youll learn eight easy ways to spread the word about project lit in your school and the local community. So our focus shifted to project lit book club, which we started six months in, around january 2017. On thursday, november 16, hms project lit haywood community book club celebrated its first book club selection wonder by r. Theres a projectlit movement spreading like wildfire and im here for it project lit takes aim at nashvilles book deserts. Day 28 jarred amato talks project lit the brown bookshelf. Amatos students mobilized, collecting book donations and setting up lit libraries around the city, which were built from newsstands donated by usa today. Project lit in the library by mica johnson on 02252019 0 inspired by the work being done by the current aasl induction program cohort, my colibrarian and i decided to start a project lit book club chapter to support a school reading culture and facilitate. A year after 911, muslim teenager shirin has completely withdrawn from social life until she meets ocean james in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
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