Greetings! As the end of another year at ESUMS is coming to a close, we are already looking to the next. Please see the attached information about the ESUMS high school summer reading. This year we have selected a single book from the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Program. A Big Read is a single text that is read across an entire school or community. The purpose is to provide young people with engaging books that allow for conversations about identity and diversity. This year's book is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
From the NEA Big Read
An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. Showcasing a diverse range of contemporary titles that reflect many different voices and perspectives, the NEA Big Read aims to inspire conversation and discovery.
Studies show that reading for pleasure reduces stress, heightens empathy, improves students' test scores, slows the onset of dementia, and makes us more active and aware citizens. Book clubs and community reading programs extend these benefits by creating opportunities to explore together the issues that are relevant to our lives. The titles in the NEA Big Read library vary in genre, theme, settings and points of view: from poems about the loss of a father to a memoir about growing up in a refugee camp to a post-apocalyptic novel about hanging on to our humanity after a flu pandemic. Writes one NEA Big Read participant, echoing the sentiments of many other participants around the country, "the book taught us how to talk to and trust one another so that we could ultimately approach issues that were difficult and immediate."
Please join us in participating along with your student in the ESUMS summer big read.
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Best!
Eric Maroney
English Department
Engineering & Science University Magnet School
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