This camp will enrich your child’s abilities and inspire them to become life-long readers. Each age group will be focusing on an award-winning book to study. We will engage in daily discussions and interactive activities that center around each book’s theme.
To register, please call Continuing Education at 906-227-1514. Each class is $50 per student plus the cost of books where applicable. Classes will be held in Whitman Commons area of Whitman Hall (see campus map).
July 16-20
Rules by Cynthia Lord (gr. 3-5)
9 a.m. - noon
Instructor: Tim Fox
“No toys in the fish tank” and “A boy can take off his shirt to swim, but not his shorts!” These are just two of the “rules” 12-year-old Catherine has made for her autistic brother, David, to help him behave. Catherine is having a tough summer. Her best friend has moved away, her parents don’t understand her and when she learns a girl her age will be moving in next door, she is determined that they will become best friends, but worried that David will get in the way.
Books will be provided for use in this camp. If you would like to keep a copy, the cost will be $8.
Eva by Peter Dickinson (gr. 6-8)
9 a.m. - noon
Instructor: Stephanie Anderson
Following a terrible car crash, Eva, 14, awakens from a strange dream and finds herself in a hospital bed. Medical science, in this book's future setting, has allowed doctors to pull her functioning brain from her crushed body and put it into the able body of a chimpanzee. She takes on the issue of animal rights, setting up (with the help of others, of course) an elaborate scheme to release chimps back into the last of the wild.
Books will be provided for use in this camp. If you would like to keep a copy, the cost will be $6.50.
July 23-27
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (gr. 9-12)
9 a.m.– noon
Instructor: Heather Hollands
Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon can scarcely believe what has happened to him. Somehow he has ended up incarcerated in the Manhattan Juvenile Detention Center for his alleged role in the robbery of a neighborhood drugstore in which the owner of the store was killed. Now he’s being charged with felony murder! Since he is a film student, he decides to tell his story in the form of a screenplay and Steve calls himself “Monster” because that’s how the prosecutor refers to him in court. But is he really a monster? And will we ever really know the whole truth?
Cost of book: $8, includes Monster and Bad Boy, an inspirational memoir by Walter Dean Myers for teens about how this award-winning author became a writer.