[kids-lib] FW: Bullying & Letters About Literature

[Jennifer Maurer]

I posted the below email on the OASL listserv, but I thought you might be interested in the info, too.  Thanks to Katie Anderson for pointing out the Daniel Harrison article.

Jen

Jennifer Maurer
School Library Consultant
Library Development
Oregon State Library
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From: Jennifer Maurer
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:45 AM
To: 'oasl-all at oema.memberclicks.net'
Subject: Bullying & Letters About Literature

The October 18th issue of People magazine has several articles about bullying.  One is about Daniel Harrison, a former bully who now befriends those being bullied.  While serving detention for his bullying, he stumbled upon Ben Mikaelsen's Touching Spirit Bear, and after reading it said, "I realized who I was, and I hated it."  The next school year when he participated in Letters About Literature as a class assignment, he wrote to Mikaelsen about his transformation and wound up with the top LAL prize for his age category in his state.

If anyone at your school is participating in National Bullying Prevention month or in Letters About Literature, these articles are good tie-ins.  If prompted for a password when accessing the Gale bookmarks, it should be oslis.

Gale bookmark to October 18th issue of People:
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/infomark.do?dblist=SRC-1_STOM_DC_STOJ_JRC_OVRC_IFME_STND_ITOF_PPPM_PROF_AONE_PPBE_CDB_HRCA_LT_PPAG_PPCA_PPCJ_PPCM_PPES_PPFA_PPGL_PPHI_PPTH_PPNU_PPPC&type=search&sort=DateDescend&tabID=T003&prodId=IPS&userGroupName=oslis&version=1.0&searchType=PublicationSearchForm&queryId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28JN%2CNone%2C15%29%22People+Weekly%22%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28AC%2CNone%2C8%29fulltext%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28DA%2CNone%2C8%2920101018%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28VO%2CNone%2C2%2974%24&source=gale&infoPage=infoMarkPage

Gale bookmark to "Confessions of a Bully," article about Daniel Harrison:
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=IPS&docId=A238772191&userGroupName=oslis&version=1.0&searchType=PublicationSearchForm&source=gale&infoPage=infoMarkPage

Daniel Harrison's winning LAL letter:
http://lettersaboutliterature.org/winning_letters/winning_letters_from_past_competitions

Letters About Literature information from Katie Anderson, the Youth Services Consultant at OSL:
http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/aboutlit.shtml

Thanks,
Jen

Jennifer Maurer
School Library Consultant
Library Development
Oregon State Library
250 Winter Street NE
Salem, OR  97301-3950
503-378-5011
jennifer.maurer at state.or.us<mailto:jennifer.maurer at state.or.us>

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