One Book, One School 2014 Kickoff - Divergent

Mrs. Zane's readers

Today we kicked off our 4th Annual All School Read!

Divergent was chosen by a committee of teachers from different subject areas along with two parents and me, the librarian! Every student and staff member received a copy of the book.

During this celebration of books and reading,  we will utilize a Friday Read schedule every day so that students will have some time to read in school each day.


 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (the polar vortex has made scheduling very difficult!)

Assigned Reading
Week ONE - Read Ch. 1-8 pgs. 1-90
Week TWO - Read Ch. 9-16 pgs. 91-208
Week THREE - Read Ch. 17-23 pgs. 209-300
Week FOUR - Read Ch. 24-30 pgs. 301-396
Week FIVE - Read Ch. 31-39 pgs. 397-487

Activities
Trivia Questions -4 days a week.
Game Shows - Weekly game show hosted by Mr. Reininga.  We will focus on one faction per week!
Art Contest  - Design a new faction with symbols, colors, motto, and an outfit.
Dress Like Your Faction Contest - 1 winner per grade
Battle of the Book - students and teachers form teams to see who can remember the most!
Family Trivia Night - Divergent and Related Trivia!

Tshirts! -This year we have T-shirts. The order form will be posted soon!

Faction pictures from Mrs. Crawford's class

Erudite

Amity

Dauntless

Factionless

DYSTOPIA!

The success of the Hunger Games movie,the switch to genre-based fiction in the library, and our past One Book, One School choices has led to an increase interest in dystopian novels.

 Hoping to capitalize on student interest, some of the 8th grade language arts classes are doing a unit that includes reading some scifi/dystopia/post-apocalyptic literature.


 If you are looking for something to read, here are some of my favorite titles in those genres (linked to goodreads):