STARKVILLE
READS
Starkville
Reads Thanks Its 2010 Contributors
See
the list here.
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Starkville Reads Announces
2010 Bebe Freeman Fund Awards
By
Harry Freeman
For the Daily News
December 6, 2010
Starkville
Reads recently announced the awarding of $250 Bebe Fund
Grants to four local public school teachers to support
creative projects to improve their students' reading abilities.
Recipients of this year's awards are Elaine Warren, and
Brooke Frericks, Sudduth Elementary School, Ms. Susan
Allen, West Oktibbeha County High School, and Ms. Pam
Perry , West Oktibbeha County Elementary School.
Warren says, " I would like to begin a book club
for my students to get them more involved in reading for
pleasure. I plan to purchase a few copies each of age
appropriate popular books and have the students form groups
of four to six students to discuss the stories and generally
evaluate the books. I want my students to understand that
their opinions are valuable and should be shared with
other students"
Frericks plans to use her grant to purchase materials
that will enable the students in her special education
preschool class to utilize all the senses a child naturally
uses to make reading a more concrete concept. Tactile,
visual, and auditory learners will explore letters through
the SENSEational Alphabet book, Tactile Letters, and a
Talking Pen. Each page of the SENSEational Alphabet Book,
contains one letter represented by Braille, manipulatives,
or textures to utilize the sense of touch, or a sound
to utilize the sense of hearing, or a scratch and sniff
area to utilize the sense of smell. This will allow all
students, regardless of disability or learning style to
access each letter.
Frericks says "It is my hope that this project will
bring a joy and imagination back to reading for our younger
students. "
Allen plans to use her grant to provide partial support
for a dramatic presentation at West Oktibbeha County High
School of Romeo and Juliet by the New Stage Theatre of
Jackson. The drama is staged in a 1950's high school setting
and deals with issues that have transcended time: youthful
passion, parental disapproval, gang violence, and teen
suicide. Allen says that the New Stage Theatre has tentatively
agreed to a mid January or February 2011 performance.
Allen says, " It should be great. You are all invited,
too. "
Perry, a kindergarten teacher plans to use her grant to
expand her "Reading Buddies" program in which
she pairs her kindergarten students with sixth grade students
for them to read together. She says that Reading Buddy
time is extremely popular with both the older and younger
students. She would like to use part of her grant to enable
her to take both classes on a field trip to the Children's
Museum in Memphis. She said, " Our students do not
have a lot of opportunities to see things outside of this
area. I’d love to get them excited about reading.
The possibilities are endless if they fall in love with
reading at an early age."
Nancy Hargrove, President of Starkville Reads says, “"These
grants provide teachers in our public schools with the
funds to undertake creative and imaginative projects to
promote books and reading.” The Bebe Fund is administered
by Starkville Reads in memory of the late Bebe Freeman,
a retired public school teacher and Starkville resident.
Starkville Reads is an all voluntary organization whose
mission is to encourage more reading in the community.
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Now
Completed
STARKVILLE
READS Fall 2010
Three
World War II programs
in conjunction with Veterans’ Day,
2010
November
11:
Music of World War II featuring
Guy Hargrove, ten members of the SHS chorus as the Andrews
Sisters plus Seven, and the Starkville High School Jazz
Band
7:00 p.m.
Starkville High School Theater Auditorium
Photo above: SHS Andrews Sisters plus
Seven
Singer
Guy Hargrove
SHS Jazz Band
November 16:
MSU history professor Dr.
Kathryn Barbier will discuss D-
Day
and Jeff Shaara’s novel The Steel
Wave
7:00
p.m.
Starkville
Public Library
Photo
left: Dr. Barbier
November
18: Dr. Clyde Williams
will introduce and show the WW II film Prelude
to War from the series Why We Fight
7:00 p.m.
Starkville Community Theater
Some
programs have been coordinated with the programs
planned by the
Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum to commemorate
Starkville's and the county’s World War II
history and veterans.
READ
TO HONOR OUR WORLD WAR II VETERANS
Starkville
Reads suggests these three books:
1.
The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
(Program was presented by Bob Wolverton in August)
2.
Flags of Our Fathers by James
Bradley (Young Adult Version): Laura Foxworth
leads the programs at Starkville Public Libray
for young people
3. Steel Wave: A Novel of World
War II by Jeff Shaara
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