Here are some of our Carnegie Shadowers. What exactly does Carnegie Shadowing involve?
Reading books. Past Carnegie Medal winners have become classics. These include The Borrowers, Watership Down, Skellig, Flour Babies, and Northern Lights. They are reading future classics!
Meeting other readers. There are ‘shadowing’ meetings each Friday lunchtime, at 1.20, when they can change books, chat about the ones they have read, and write reviews. Of course, they can come at any other time too. Near the end of term we will vote for our OLCSS winner.
Writing reviews. They will write a review for each of the books they read, trying to assess the book as if they are one of the judges. They post reviews on a special shadowing website. Tip to shadowers: you may find it useful to write in Word, then copy and paste it. You may also find it useful to make some notes on each book as or after you read it, e.g. names of characters, places, and complicated parts of the plot, favourite phrases or description, plus your opinion. Why not use this as an opportunity to start a Reading Diary?
Meeting Carnegie Shadowers from other schools and the Carnegie Forum. This will be the sixth year that the six secondary schools in Abingdon have worked together over the Carnegie Medal. We have already enjoyed initial reactions at a Carnegie ‘tea’ in mid-May, and will be taking part in team quizzes on 16 June. There will also be a joint Abingdon Carnegie Forum on Tuesday 4 July, where over 100 students from local schools will be discussing and voting for the Abingdon winner.
Did you know? Over 50,000 young people from about 2500 reading groups are expected to take part in the shadowing scheme in 2006.
Please read some of our reviews by going to http://www.ckg.org.uk/. Click on 'Shadowing Groups' at the top of the screen, then 'Reading Groups', and find Our Lady's Convent Senior School.
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