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OCTOBER MEETING--Clap When you Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

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 Hello PD group!

Our next Literature for Adolescents meeting is Monday, October 26th from 3:45-5:45 (we will meet the last Monday of each month working around the holidays). From this date forward you can earn 18 hours of PD credit. Heidi Breidenstein will be facilitating our October read which is Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. Make sure to pick out your favorite poem from the text. That will be part of the discussion. 

  • Elizabeth Acevedo's new Clap When You Land is a novel, in verse, about two sisters losing their father, their hero, and finding each other along the way. Camino Rios lives with her aunt in the Dominican Republic, and waits all year for her dad to visit her for the summer.



Below are the books we will read into 2021:

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes –Suzanne Collins --- November

The Death of Vivich Oji by Akwaeke Emezi-December

What is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi and "Here for It" by R. Eric Thomas - January (choose one)


We will choose books for the rest of 2021 at our upcoming meetings. 


Some guidelines we need to follow: 

1) Attend the Zoom meetings - after each meeting attendance will be submitted and a survey will have to be filled out to receive credit. 

2) If you cannot attend - you may BLOG (up to 50% of the meetings) - sharing your thoughts about the book and responding to other blog post. Your post must be entered within three days of the meeting date. Below is the link to our PD's blog:

https://sotareading2.blogspot.com/.

3) Come prepared and ready to share!

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  1. Heidi BreidensteinOctober 26, 2020 at 3:11 PM

    Here is a link to the Slide presentation for Clap When You Land.
    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WayHtlQC-YiTUWkNK40nLb_jsN63f238GUgKtUDLTLY/edit?usp=sharing

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