I wanted the community to be knocking down the doors, parents wanting and willing to volunteer, and an administration extremely pleased with the kind of high impact library program they had never seen here before. I kept pushing and pushing and finally YRCA put it over the top. Move over 50th anniversary of the Peoples Republic. Not since Mao came cruising into this city in 1949 has Shanghai seen such fireworks. The results of this five-month program are now in.
Teachers here have much more flexibility.
Lists on the walls included characters, settings, plots, and questions. After hearing and responding to so many questions about the books, the pleasure of these books remains in their heads for a very long time. In all 11 classes, just about every book has been read. For our ESOL students, we had high school volunteers translate many of the books on tape. For those students who found some of these books still too challenging, we had parent volunteers as well as our specialists reading with the students individually.