I've started volunteering in the media center at my son's school, and I went in today for the first time. The media center at "Canaan" Middle School is fabulous, and the media center specialist, Ms. "Teller," really knows how to entice the kids to read. She's set the place up as though it were a Barnes and Noble and not a traditional library with rows and rows of Dewey-decimalized books.
The kids there compete for reading points by taking AR Tests (accelerated reading) in order to earn prizes. Actually, the teachers compete for points as well, although I doubt there are any prizes for them. Ms. Teller put my name in the computer system so that I could take tests too. I've not read anything much lately that's on, *ahem*, a middle school level, but she did have classics such as Moby Dick and Shakespeare's works. Even though it's been about a year and a half since I last read Melville's tome, I took the test and literally missed half of the questions. They were only basic plot questions, but what a great way to show the media center people how well-read I am for an English teacher. . . Not.
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