Over the course of three Zoom meetings, book clubbers will read Amal Unbound, the fictional story of young Amal, who navigates indentured servitude in modern day Pakistan. Learners will engage in facilitated discussions geared toward plot and dialogue, the geographical and social placement of Pakistan, and the concept of indentured servitude and its prevalence in...
Join the optional culminating event for Amal Unbound and enjoy a movie showing of the 2013 documentary Girl Rising that demonstrates the powerful impact that education has on girls around the world. Registration Form Parent/Guardians are required to attend this event with their learner(s).
Over the course of four weeks, book clubbers in grades 6-8 will read the graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy. This memoir written by George Takei recounts his childhood in a Japanese internment camp. Book clubbers will explore how to read a graphic novel, how to write in a graphic novel style, as well as...
Over the course of four weeks, book clubbers in grades 6-8 will read the graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy. This memoir written by George Takei recounts his childhood in a Japanese internment camp. Book clubbers will explore how to read a graphic novel, how to write in a graphic novel style, as well as...
Over the course of four weeks, book clubbers in grades 6-8 will read the graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy. This memoir written by George Takei recounts his childhood in a Japanese internment camp. Book clubbers will explore how to read a graphic novel, how to write in a graphic novel style, as well as...
Over the course of four weeks, book clubbers in grades 6-8 will read the graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy. This memoir written by George Takei recounts his childhood in a Japanese internment camp. Book clubbers will explore how to read a graphic novel, how to write in a graphic novel style, as well as...
Learners will read The Las Cuentista and take a deep dive into stories that make up our collective culture, as well as exploring traditional myths and legends in Hispanic Culture. This book was chosen to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated from Sept 15 - Oct 15. Additionally, the protagonist has retina pigmentosa, a disability that...
Learners will read The Las Cuentista and take a deep dive into stories that make up our collective culture, as well as exploring traditional myths and legends in Hispanic Culture. This book was chosen to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated from Sept 15 - Oct 15. Additionally, the protagonist has retina pigmentosa, a disability that...
Learners will read The Las Cuentista and take a deep dive into stories that make up our collective culture, as well as exploring traditional myths and legends in Hispanic Culture. This book was chosen to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated from Sept 15 - Oct 15. Additionally, the protagonist has retina pigmentosa, a disability that...
Calling all 3rd- 5th graders! Starting September 21, join us as we go on a dangerous adventure with Max as he discovers his family's secret and helps a young girl escape to Mañanaland. Using his grandfather's stories as clues, learners journey along with Max, exploring themes of courage, loss, hope, and freedom. This book is...
Learners will read The Las Cuentista and take a deep dive into stories that make up our collective culture, as well as exploring traditional myths and legends in Hispanic Culture. This book was chosen to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated from Sept 15 - Oct 15. Additionally, the protagonist has retina pigmentosa, a disability that...
Calling all 3rd- 5th graders! Starting September 21, join us as we go on a dangerous adventure with Max as he discovers his family's secret and helps a young girl escape to Mañanaland. Using his grandfather's stories as clues, learners journey along with Max, exploring themes of courage, loss, hope, and freedom. This book is...
We will celebrate our reading of The Last Cuentista at the Acton Library by viewing Disney's Coco.
Calling all 3rd- 5th graders! Starting September 21, join us as we go on a dangerous adventure with Max as he discovers his family's secret and helps a young girl escape to Mañanaland. Using his grandfather's stories as clues, learners journey along with Max, exploring themes of courage, loss, hope, and freedom. This book is...
Through the poetry and short stories of Poe, learners will explore figurative language, and literary devices - imagery, diction, metaphor, repetition, tone, and more. Learners will have multiple Poe options to choose from each week and, because of the content of Poe stories, learners will be given a full synopsis before choosing what stories and...
Calling all 3rd- 5th graders! Starting September 21, join us as we go on a dangerous adventure with Max as he discovers his family's secret and helps a young girl escape to Mañanaland. Using his grandfather's stories as clues, learners journey along with Max, exploring themes of courage, loss, hope, and freedom. This book is...
Through the poetry and short stories of Poe, learners will explore figurative language, and literary devices - imagery, diction, metaphor, repetition, tone, and more. Learners will have multiple Poe options to choose from each week and, because of the content of Poe stories, learners will be given a full synopsis before choosing what stories and...
Through the poetry and short stories of Poe, learners will explore figurative language, and literary devices - imagery, diction, metaphor, repetition, tone, and more. Learners will have multiple Poe options to choose from each week and, because of the content of Poe stories, learners will be given a full synopsis before choosing what stories and...
Third through fifth grade learner are invited to join this book club event and read The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. Louise Erdich is a member of the Turtle Mountain band of the Chippewa or Ojibwa tribe, and uses her own Ojibwa family history to share the beauty and complexity of her heritage. Learners will...
Through the poetry and short stories of Poe, learners will explore figurative language, and literary devices - imagery, diction, metaphor, repetition, tone, and more. Learners will have multiple Poe options to choose from each week and, because of the content of Poe stories, learners will be given a full synopsis before choosing what stories and...
Third through fifth grade learner are invited to join this book club event and read The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. Louise Erdich is a member of the Turtle Mountain band of the Chippewa or Ojibwa tribe, and uses her own Ojibwa family history to share the beauty and complexity of her heritage. Learners will...
The fictional lens of a very real moment in history provides insight into the Navajo Code Talkers, American heroes of WWII, that decoded complicated messages in other languages to help win the war for the US. Deep topics like boarding schools, race, and battle fatigue will be explored and balanced with stories of triumph, heroism,...
Third through fifth grade learner are invited to join this book club event and read The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. Louise Erdich is a member of the Turtle Mountain band of the Chippewa or Ojibwa tribe, and uses her own Ojibwa family history to share the beauty and complexity of her heritage. Learners will...
Third through fifth grade learner are invited to join this book club event and read The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. Louise Erdich is a member of the Turtle Mountain band of the Chippewa or Ojibwa tribe, and uses her own Ojibwa family history to share the beauty and complexity of her heritage. Learners will...
The fictional lens of a very real moment in history provides insight into the Navajo Code Talkers, American heroes of WWII, that decoded complicated messages in other languages to help win the war for the US. Deep topics like boarding schools, race, and battle fatigue will be explored and balanced with stories of triumph, heroism,...
Join this book club to read, El Deafo by Cece Bell, an amazing, hilarious, and moving graphic novel (comic book style). In Cece's old class, all of her classmates were deaf. As she starts a new school, she will be wearing a hearing aid. At first, this makes her feel self-conscious, but then she makes an...
The fictional lens of a very real moment in history provides insight into the Navajo Code Talkers, American heroes of WWII, that decoded complicated messages in other languages to help win the war for the US. Deep topics like boarding schools, race, and battle fatigue will be explored and balanced with stories of triumph, heroism,...
The fictional lens of a very real moment in history provides insight into the Navajo Code Talkers, American heroes of WWII, that decoded complicated messages in other languages to help win the war for the US. Deep topics like boarding schools, race, and battle fatigue will be explored and balanced with stories of triumph, heroism,...
Celebrate the reading of Code Talker at the Acton Library by viewing the film, Navajo Code Talkers of World War II (2018).
Winter will be a little bit cozier while reading Greenglass House. The main character, Milo, is snowed in with a colorful cast of smugglers in his family’s hotel. A mystery unfolds and Milo and a new friend look to uncover the mysterious villain. Learners will explore the elements that make up a good story as...
Third through fifth grade learners are invited to join this virtual book club opportunity. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse. It is Jacqueline Woodson's experiences growing up in South Carolina and New York during the changing landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. We will learn about Civil Rights leaders that inspired her. As...
Winter will be a little bit cozier while reading Greenglass House. The main character, Milo, is snowed in with a colorful cast of smugglers in his family’s hotel. A mystery unfolds and Milo and a new friend look to uncover the mysterious villain. Learners will explore the elements that make up a good story as...
Third through fifth grade learners are invited to join this virtual book club opportunity. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse. It is Jacqueline Woodson's experiences growing up in South Carolina and New York during the changing landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. We will learn about Civil Rights leaders that inspired her. As...
Winter will be a little bit cozier while reading Greenglass House. The main character, Milo, is snowed in with a colorful cast of smugglers in his family’s hotel. A mystery unfolds and Milo and a new friend look to uncover the mysterious villain. Learners will explore the elements that make up a good story as...
Third through fifth grade learners are invited to join this virtual book club opportunity. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse. It is Jacqueline Woodson's experiences growing up in South Carolina and New York during the changing landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. We will learn about Civil Rights leaders that inspired her. As...
Winter will be a little bit cozier while reading Greenglass House. The main character, Milo, is snowed in with a colorful cast of smugglers in his family’s hotel. A mystery unfolds and Milo and a new friend look to uncover the mysterious villain. Learners will explore the elements that make up a good story as...
Third through fifth grade learners are invited to join this virtual book club opportunity. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse. It is Jacqueline Woodson's experiences growing up in South Carolina and New York during the changing landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. We will learn about Civil Rights leaders that inspired her. As...
The Greenglass House book club will conclude with an optional viewing of A Knight's Tale at the Acton Curriculum Library.
Third through fifth grade learners are invited to join this virtual book club opportunity. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse. It is Jacqueline Woodson's experiences growing up in South Carolina and New York during the changing landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. We will learn about Civil Rights leaders that inspired her. As...
During their reading of Finding Langston, learners will be introduced to The Great Migration, the time in American history where millions of Black Americans moved away from violence and racial strife. This is a time where Black American art found a renaissance in music, art, and, of course, great writing like Langston Hughes. Through the...
Third through fifth grade learners are invited to join this virtual book club opportunity. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse. It is Jacqueline Woodson's experiences growing up in South Carolina and New York during the changing landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. We will learn about Civil Rights leaders that inspired her. As...
During their reading of Finding Langston, learners will be introduced to The Great Migration, the time in American history where millions of Black Americans moved away from violence and racial strife. This is a time where Black American art found a renaissance in music, art, and, of course, great writing like Langston Hughes. Through the...
Third through fifth grade learners are invited to join this virtual book club opportunity. Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir written in verse. It is Jacqueline Woodson's experiences growing up in South Carolina and New York during the changing landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. We will learn about Civil Rights leaders that inspired her. As...
During their reading of Finding Langston, learners will be introduced to The Great Migration, the time in American history where millions of Black Americans moved away from violence and racial strife. This is a time where Black American art found a renaissance in music, art, and, of course, great writing like Langston Hughes. Through the...
During their reading of Finding Langston, learners will be introduced to The Great Migration, the time in American history where millions of Black Americans moved away from violence and racial strife. This is a time where Black American art found a renaissance in music, art, and, of course, great writing like Langston Hughes. Through the...
Participants in the Finding Langston book club are invited to conclude their time together with an optional viewing of A Raisin in the Sun (2008) at the Acton Library.
Front Desk, written by Kelly Yang, is a novel about a ten-year old girl named Mia and her determination to help her family in the 1990s in Anaheim, California. Coming from China, in pursuit of the American dream, her family deals with many challenges, but finds friends and a new community along the way. Learners...
Learners who join this book club will head down the rabbit hole with Alice and explore the world of nonsense. Only the most absurd of Carroll's poetry will be explored as we flex our writing skills to the farthest reaches of silliness. We'll cover satire, symbolism, and the historical happenings of Victorian England. REGISTER HERE...
Learners who join this book club will head down the rabbit hole with Alice and explore the world of nonsense. Only the most absurd of Carroll's poetry will be explored as we flex our writing skills to the farthest reaches of silliness. We'll cover satire, symbolism, and the historical happenings of Victorian England. REGISTER HERE...
Learners who join this book club will head down the rabbit hole with Alice and explore the world of nonsense. Only the most absurd of Carroll's poetry will be explored as we flex our writing skills to the farthest reaches of silliness. We'll cover satire, symbolism, and the historical happenings of Victorian England. REGISTER HERE...
Celebrate the final book club by watching He Named Me Malala at the Acton Library
Learners who join this book club will head down the rabbit hole with Alice and explore the world of nonsense. Only the most absurd of Carroll's poetry will be explored as we flex our writing skills to the farthest reaches of silliness. We'll cover satire, symbolism, and the historical happenings of Victorian England. REGISTER HERE...
Celebrate the silliness with the optional viewing of Alice in Wonderland (2010) at the Acton Curriculum Library.
During this book club, learners will follow Mimi as her fictional town of Comity, MA is turned upside down by new neighbors. We'll compare this book with the plot of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as many familiar characters begin to appear. Learners will write their own stories full of allusion and foreshadowing as we become experts...
During this book club, learners will follow Mimi as her fictional town of Comity, MA is turned upside down by new neighbors. We'll compare this book with the plot of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as many familiar characters begin to appear. Learners will write their own stories full of allusion and foreshadowing as we become experts...
During this book club, learners will follow Mimi as her fictional town of Comity, MA is turned upside down by new neighbors. We'll compare this book with the plot of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as many familiar characters begin to appear. Learners will write their own stories full of allusion and foreshadowing as we become experts...
During this book club, learners will follow Mimi as her fictional town of Comity, MA is turned upside down by new neighbors. We'll compare this book with the plot of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as many familiar characters begin to appear. Learners will write their own stories full of allusion and foreshadowing as we become experts...
Celebrate the final book club by watching A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) at the Acton Library.