📢 UPCOMING EVENTS:
Wednesday, October 22- PSAT Test for Juniors
Friday, October 23- End of Q1
Friday, October 24- No school/ Teacher PD
Monday, October 27- First day of Q2
Friday, October 31- First MS Project Lit meeting
Friday, November 7- Middle School Dance
Tuesday, November 11- No School- Veterans Day
Saturday, November 15- Homecoming Dance
Monday, November 24 and Tuesday, November 25- Virtual Student Led Conferences
November 26-November 28- No School- Thanksgiving Break
Happy 2nd Quarter!!
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Happy Native American Heritage Month. Check out some recommended reads here!
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Our first book of this school year will be It's All or Nothing Vale  by Andrea Beatriz Arango! We will meet on Friday, October 31 at 8:20 in the outer library
🚨 PROJECT LIT BOOK CLUB UPDATES
- MIDDLE SCHOOL -
MS Project Lit met on Friday, October 31 from 8:30-10am in the Inner Library to read It's All or Nothing Vale and talk with the author of the book Andrea Beatriz Arango.
Our next book is The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes. We will meet on Friday, December 5 from 8:30-9:45
Zane has always enjoyed exploring the dormant volcano near his home in New Mexico, even though hiking it is challenging. He'd much rather hang out there with his dog, Rosie, than go to middle school, where kids call him Sir Limps a Lot, McGimpster, or Uno — for his one good leg. What Zane doesn't know is that the volcano is a gateway to another world and he is at the center of a powerful prophecy.
A new girl at school, Brooks, informs him that he's destined to release an evil god from the ancient Maya relic he is imprisoned in — unless she can find and remove it first. Together they return to the volcano, where all kinds of crazy happens. Brooks turns into a hawk, a demon attacks them in a cave, and Rosie gives her all while trying to protect Zane. When Zane decides to save his dog no matter the cost, he is thrust into an adventure full of surprising discoveries, dangerous secrets, and an all-out war between the gods, one of whom happens to be his father. To survive, Zane will have to become the Storm Runner. But how can he run when he can't even walk well without a cane?
Feisty heroes, tricky gods, murderous demons, and spirited giants are just some of the pleasures that await in this fresh and funny take on Maya mythology, as rich and delicious as a mug of authentic hot chocolate.
SIGN UP HERE FOR OUR 12/5 BOOK CLUB MEETING BY 11/28!!!Â
Email Ms. Byrd (kathryn.byrd@dcinternationalschool.org) with any questions you have regarding MS Project LIT book club (~monthly)
🚨 PROJECT LIT BOOK CLUB UPDATES
- HIGH SCHOOL -
Our HS Project LIT book club had our first meeting on Friday, October 10 and discussed Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Â
Our next book is There, There by Tommy Orange. Stay tuned for the date and time of our next meeting.Â
Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American--grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
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