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Ilion, NY 13357
Phone: 315.894.9934
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Superintendent
Junior High honors Reading Counts winners
What happens when you issue a challenge to Ilion's Junior High School students to read outside of class? Those students read and read and read and read...
In fact, over the course of the year, those students read 1,238 extra books!
Junior High School media specialist Steven Inzer issued the challenge last September as part of the Scholastic Reading Counts program.
The rules were simple—choose one of the thousands of titles available; read the book; and pass an online quiz related to the book proving you read the book and understood what you read. The computer keeps track of how many quizzes you pass.
At a special pizza party and award ceremony for the top readers, Mr. Inzer shared an amazing statistic, "Seventh graders read 505 books (22, 014,811 words) and eighth graders read 732 books (29,565,723 words)."
"While we are talking about numbers, we really are talking about words and stories and adventures and fantasy and drama and sports and horror—we are talking about life. Hopefully the books you read this year made you think, made you laugh, made you cry—in short, made you human," said Mr. Inzer to the students.
In addition to the all-you-can-eat pizza party, lucky students received door prizes and the top five students (those who passed the most quizzes) received special prizes. Honored were:
Seventh grade
Hunter Collis - 16 quizzes (iHome w/earbuds)
Taylor Lindig - 16 quizzes (portable speakers)
Kali Fical - 16 quizzes (speakers)
Abigail McCann - 15 quizzes ($5 Primo gift certificate)
Cody Messina, Keiffer Knowles, Eldon Hall - each with 14 quizzes (Ice Cream Station gift certificate)
Eighth grade
Mackenzie Lynch - 32 quizzes (iHome w/earbuds)
Nicole Harrigan - 25 quizzes (portable speakers)
Korey Hoke - 23 quizzes (speakers)
Miranda Maldonado - 20 quizzess ($5 Primo gift certificate)
Sarah Ford - 16 quizzes (Ice Cream Station gift certificate)
In closing, Mr. Inzer issued a new challenge to his students, "Next year's eighth graders, beat the number of books read by this year's eighth grade. Next year's ninth graders, keep on reading—this time without the quiz attached to the end."
