The Kellogg Foundation announced today, March 5, 2007 that it would be supporting the Southwestern CT Collaborative Big Read effort with a $20,000 grant.
Fairfield County Community Foundation
Kellogg Foundation
The Kellogg Foundation is also supporting the Southwestern Collaborative Big Read Program.
Big Read Press Conference
- Photos from Congressman Shays November Press Conference.
Distribution Day
- On February 6, 2007 members of the Regional Big Read Committee met to update and finalize plans for their city's events. Also at this time members were given their copies of the book, Big Read teacher and reading guides, posters, and bookmarks.
Stuffing 1000 Bags
- A 1,000 bags were stuffed over a period of two days in anticipation of the Big Read program. Each bag contained a copy of the book, a calendar of events and other promotional items.
Memoir Writing
- The Bridgeport Public Library memoir writing group will be using To Kill a Mockingbird as their theme for next month's meeting and writing session.
Bridgeport Day
- The Bridgeport Public Library promoted the Big Read at the annual Bridgeport Day in Hartford on March 21, 2007
STAR 99.9
- Talking up the Big Read on the radio are representatives from Bridgeport, Shelton and New Haven.
WICC 600
- The Big Read is the focus of Jim Buchanan's WICC morning show
Mockingbird Poetry
- Women at Mercy Learning Center participate in a poetry workshop led by Dianna Miller. Using a passage from To Kill a Mockingbird students comprised a collaborative poem. Others wrote individual poems as well.
Noteworthy Books for the Big Read
Charles J. Shields: Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Author Charles Shields will be visiting the Southwestern Collaborative on March 31, 2007 to discuss his biography. Check the Calendar of Events for times and locations.Harold Bloom: Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird (Blooms Notes)
If you are looking for a study guide, this is it.Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird Activity Pack
A great guide for teachers.Johnson: Masterwork Studies Series - To Kill a Mockingbird (cloth) (Masterwork Studies Series)
Another great study guide.Loretta Ellsworth: In Search of Mockingbird
A young adult novel where the main character after finding her dead mother's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, goes in search of Harper Lee.
Funding
March 05, 2007
February 16, 2007
The Greater Bridgeport Area Foundation Supports The Big Read
The Greater Bridgeport Area Foundation on January 18, 2007 announced it would support the Big Read Collaborative with a $20,000 grant. This is wonderful news! The extra funding allows for more distribution of free copies of To Kill a Mockingbird and additional quality programming.
February 07, 2007
Are You Ready For "The Big Read?!"
Four key cities in Southwestern Connecticut, Bridgeport, Norwalk, Stamford and Shelton have created a unique regional approach to the “The Big Read, ”an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest that is designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
Under the leadership of Congressman Christopher Shays, the partnering communities in the 4th Congressional District are coming together to create a comprehensive program that will be accessible not only to residents of the four key Cities, but to over 900,000 residents of Fairfield County.
After much discussion the region has chosen the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and over the next several months will present a wide variety of events that are designed to immerse the reading participants in all aspects of the novel – the historic elements, the themes of diversity and equality and the Southern traditions woven throughout.
Big Read-National Website
This event is part of The Big Read,an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
This is the copy we will be using during the Big Read.
Regional Big Read Calendar of Events
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