[R3librarians] Tuesday's Trash & Treasures

[Cindy Franklin]

(I'm looking forward to Trash & Treasures titles ya'll
will be sending me for posting after spring break!)

 



 

Today's edition of Tuesday's Trash &
Treasures features two (2) treasures:

 

* Middle School Series

 

* Elementary/Middle School Title
 
Contribution by:
Clyde Ruth
Beyer
Crain Middle School
Victoria, TX
clyde.beyer at visd.com

A
favorite series at my middle school: 
The Squire's
Tales; by Gerald Morris.  Humorous re-telling of legends surrounding King Arthur
& Camelot ....the 1st in the series is:  The Squire's Tale--cover shows a "Knight" in
armor sitting on a white horse--facing the tail

 


 
 

 



 

1 Squire's Tale, The

 

2 Squire, His Knight, & His Lady, The

 

3 Savage Damsel and the Dwarf, The

 

4 Parsifal's Page

 

5 Ballad of Sir Dinadan, The

 

6 Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight,
The

 

7 Lioness and her Knight    ****just out, no AR, yet.


 
Contribution by:
Cindy Franklin

I picked
up The SOS Files
(by Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey and Laurie Myers) to read during lunch
yesterday, and thoroughly enjoyed it!  This is one of the
2006-2007 Bluebonnet Nominees.  

The teacher
challenges students to write about their individual SOS moments
throughout the year.  This is not a required assignment, but one
that will earn them extra credit.  Students have all year to create
these stories, as they arise in their own lives, and then add them to the
SOS Files at the teacher's desk.

At the end of the year, the
teacher pulls out the file to read them to the class.  However, there
is one, he says, for which there will be no extra credit given, and he
will be the one to read it to the class.  

Classmates
tell diverse stories, ranging from silly ("I at all the chocolate
bars I was supposed to be selling"), to adventurous
("Sharks were swimming very close to me") to
touching ("I was born in a motel and thrown in the dumpster
behind the motel office").   Each reads their own to
the class.

Then the teacher reads the last story...the one for
which no extra credit will be given.  The author has chosen to remain
anonymous, and has written about the SOS moment in his life when he was
held back in the first grade.  All the students look around the room,
trying to figure out who among them had been forced to repeat the first
grade.  

Here's the spoiler, so stop
reading if you don't want to know the ending:
The story
goes on to tell how the teacher figured out that he had dyslexia, and that
thanks to his teacher, he was able to get some help and learn how to
read.  He'd even been able to finish high school and go to college
and learn how to become a teacher.(Hanky moment!) Yes, this story
had been written by the teacher himself....which is why there would be no
extra credit given!

 Ages are never mentioned, so the
story could be used throughout many of the middle grades, and even on into
high school, in the right classroom situation.


Cindy
Franklin 
Library & Technology Specialist 
Region III ESC

cfranklin at esc3.net 
361-573-0731 ext 277 
www.esc3.net/mlib 


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