You have Died of Dysentery

I started a thing where I pull two books from the collection: a short biography that could be read in one sitting and a middle-grade fiction selection.

Regarding the biography, I'm sharing three things I learned about the subject from reading the book with the kiddoes.

Regarding the middle-grade fiction, I'm just reading it, or reading as much as I can in a week. Then, if it's a book I am enjoying, I'll finish it over the weekend. If I'm not enjoying it, then I won't finish it because I've decided that life is too short to finish self-selected reading that isn't bringing the reader joy.

In regards to leveling this up . . . sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving the middle schoolers (and the older elementary kids) will start writing book reviews via a single Google slide. I'm going to have these running on a loop in the library.

I'll post what I'm reading at that moment on the sidebar, be it these things, what I call "Ms. Locklear reading", or be it other stuff I call "Karen" reading.

<Pause for a snicker.>

Yeah, I know what the post-COVID era has done to my given name. Whatever. I'm taking it back, one third-person reference at a time.

In regards to writing . . .

To review, this is the research-activities-hub challenge I created for myself, as if I didn't have enough to do already:

I have no idea who originally did this one. A version of this was shared with me by a director of Library Media Services as the best research activity they had seen with little kids. My level up would be to add technology to create an Oregon Trail/ Choose Your Own Adventure activity with research.