Cornell's 2008 Reading Project

Participate in the Cornell Reading Project Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Gary Wills. This will be required reading for more than 3,000 incoming freshman and transfer students this fall. Once again, participation of this project is being extended to high school students across the state through the Cornell Cooperative Extension System.

This will be the seventh year of the Cornell New Student Reading Project and the third year of CCE participation. Last year, extension educators in 25 associations plus the New York City office facilitated the participation of nearly 10,000 students from 150 high schools in the reading project. With your help, we can reach that many again this year!

Why the Reading Project? Research indicates that pleasure readers are more likely to be active participants in the world around them. As a result Cornell University wishes to build a community of readers by: providing great reading material, prompting community discussion by creating a common reading experience, readers to understand authors by providing an opportunity for reflection and discussion, and supporting out-of-school reading time.

To register, teachers should contact Sandra Antonioli (914) 285-4627 or sla32@cornell.edu

What can you expect? Below is a list of roles for each of the partners working on this project.

Here is what we are hoping for:

CCE County Educators will:
recruit schools, distribute books, bookmarks, study questions and posters to schools, and distribute press releases to local papers.

Cornell University will:
provide books, bookmarks, posters & follow-up discussion dvds, support the program through web site: http://reading.cornell.edu, provide press support through Cornell News Service, and provide study questions (when they become available).

Students will:
Read and participate in in-school, after-school or community discussions.

Teachers will:
distribute books to students and facilitate discussions.

 

Find out more about beautiful Westchester County on the County Home Page.

For more information please e-mail westchester@cornell.edu

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