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This school year, 2024-25, we will be Reading Around the World so we can have our EYES WIDE OPEN!!!
We need to learn about other teenagers around the world. We need to learn about their lives, their cultures, their languages, their food, their celebrations, their triumphs, their failures, their struggles in their homelife and in their countries. Many teenagers around the world have so many struggles and hardships they have to over come just to live a simple life. We need to become empathic towards others.
Each month there will be a different country or culture highlighted. There will be books to read, facts and trivia, and possibly games to try.
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In October we will be learning about Germany and their wonderful culture and language.
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In November we will be staying in our own country and learning about the many Indigenous Tribes of the United States. We will be reading Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley. Excellent book and I encourage everyone to read it!!!
From Goodreads:
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she’s stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep.
Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, Team Misfit Toys, and even her twin sister Pauline. Together they ace obstacle courses, plan vigils for missing women in the community, and make sure summer doesn’t feel so lost after all.
But when she attends a meeting at a local university, Perry learns about the “Warrior Girl”, an ancestor whose bones and knife are stored in the museum archives, and everything changes. Perry has to return Warrior Girl to her tribe. Determined to help, she learns all she can about NAGPRA, the federal law that allows tribes to request the return of ancestral remains and sacred items. The university has been using legal loopholes to hold onto Warrior Girl and twelve other Anishinaabe ancestors’ remains, and Perry and the Misfits won’t let it go on any longer.
Using all of their skills and resources, the Misfits realize a heist is the only way to bring back the stolen artifacts and remains for good. But there is more to this repatriation than meets the eye as more women disappear and Pauline’s perfectionism takes a turn for the worse. As secrets and mysteries unfurl, Perry and the Misfits must fight to find a way to make things right – for the ancestors and for their community.
In December, we are travelling to Korea!! We will visit the country, the food, the language, and of course, the music!!! We have books on Korean music so come check them out!!!
In January 2024 we are going to RUSSIA!!!! There are CHALLENGES and small prizes!!!! Come see the books in the library!!!
Challenge #1: Learn to count IN RUSSIAN from 0 to 30 and then by 10s to 100! Come say them to Mrs. Schatz
Challenge #2: Name the colors IN RUSSIAN. See this PowerPoint! Come say them to Mrs. Schatz
Challenge #3: This one takes TWO People! Develop a small dialog and memorize it, and then perform it for Mrs. Schatz Your dialog should include , hellos, what is your name and answers, how are you and answers, do you speak English and answers, where are you from and answers, and goodbyes. See Mrs. Schatz for help and more details.
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