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Saipan Southern High students blog their book of interest
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Posted on May 19 2009
Over 30 Saipan Southern High School students are participating in this year’s NMI Council for Humanities project, Reading Rave II.
Reading Rave II is a schoolwide reading and literacy program that is taking place in Saipan Southern High School Library from January 12 to June 15, 2009. Highly motivated high school students write their thoughts and comments about the books that they read in an online book discussion. Students hope that their peers will read their comments in the blog and it will encourage them to read that particular book from the school library.
Bo Mi Lee, a junior student, says, “Before I started reading books and posting blogs about my opinion about the books, reading was not such an interesting subject to me. I just read books and did not really ponder or had any opinion of the stories. But after I started posting each thought on the blog per chapter, I let myself express how I feel about the main characters and the events [in the book]. I could think more profoundly and meticulously about each storyline and these kept me on track. I like the fact that I could analyze, criticize, summarize, and show my clear point of view about the books. It aroused me to read more, think more and enjoy more.”
Yuichiro Yagi, a senior student, read City of Ember by Jean DuPrau. He reviews the book, “This book makes me think the life we are living is now is taken for granted. This book is way better than the movie. I can’t wait to read the sequel, The People of Sparks.”
Sudi Q. Napalan, the teacher librarian of Saipan Southern High School and the Reading Rave Project director, says, “I am grateful that the NMI Council of Humanities and CNMI Public School System have been supporting our projects for two years in a row. Students get to enjoy newly released books in our library. This motivates our students to read more and I am proud of the outcome of our reading projects.”
Reading Rave II blog can be accessed online at http://readingrave.blogspot.com/.
This project was made possible by support from the Northern Mariana Islands Council for the Humanities, a nonprofit, private corporation funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]
