Books Give You Wings: a Classroom Library for Young Aviators

Funded Feb 22, 2024

The classroom library has come to life! I am thankful for all of the donations that made this wonderfully diverse, representative, and connective project a reality! My goal has been to instill a love of reading into high school students who have grown up with all things digital.

I want to emphasize to students that they can find anything in a book: education, adventures and fantastical series to fuel their imagination, journeys that help them "lose themselves" and de-stress, stories and memoirs to help them through the bad times, to learn empathy, to broaden their perspectives, to have hope, to be inspired, to have a companion.

I already have a few students who have checked out books on the regular! My classes will be doing a reading project where they pick a book they want to read and then connect with their classmates, like a modified book club, to chat. Finally, students will create a project of their choosing to present! This could be an extra chapter to the book, a Netflix episode, a podcast, journal entries as if they were a character in the book, an old-fashioned book report, etc. Whatever sparks their interest and gets them excited! These types of reading projects allow student-voice and choice into the classroom.

Thanks to all again. Reading is to live many lives.”

With gratitude,

Ms. St. Clair