Lovett School issued the following announcement on May 13.
Ms. Vernon's 9th-grade Biology class completed a project on science books. Each student got to choose a book of their choice from a list that Ms. Vernon and the librarian, Ms. Martin put together. According to Ms. Verson, the goal of this project is for “students to explore reading and maybe discover a love of reading that I have.”
When the project was assigned to the class most of the students grumbled at first and complained. “These are the number one students who love the project the most,” says Ms. Vernon.
She decided to start doing the project at a previous school she worked at because “she saw a lack of reading.” Her brother is an English teacher who helped her put the pieces of the project together.
The students have 6 weeks to read the book. After they read the book they must complete a project that ties biology to their book. Some examples Ms. Vernon gave me were a podcast or a trailer for a movie.
I am in honors biology and did not get to take part in a fun project like this. I was curious and wanted to learn more about this project so I voyaged around the high school looking for peers in my grade who had Mrs. Vernon as a teacher.
The first person I interviewed requested to remain anonymous. I simply asked what book this student was reading and they said, “I haven’t started reading the book.” They were scared Ms. Vernon was going to hear the recording so they stole my phone and tried to delete the recording.
A student who completed the project last year, Christian Bell, said that he loved the project. He said it was “extremely easy.” This makes sense since he did score a 100 on the project.
Michael Darville read a book called The Darkest Minds. He said the book was about a plague that killed 90% of kids and the ones who survived gained superpowers. Michael said “it was a good book” and he recommended it to others. He created a google site for his project which he said: “was not very fun.”
Landon Murphy read the book Blood and Germs. He explained how “along with war being the cause of death, the disease is also a main cause of death during the war.” He said the book was “alright.” This was surprising because I think the book sounds quite splendid.
His main takeaway from the project was that “soldiers get diseases using equipment and they don’t care about who is in the war as long as the soldiers are strong.”
Talen Frett read Orleans. “It’s a frightening look at what might happen to a world ravaged by climate change and a horrific epidemic.” The natural disasters led to sickness and Talen related this sickness to Covid. For his project, he compared different people’s Covid experiences to the experiences of characters in the book.
Mrs. Vernon shared two of her favorite books with me, Demon in the Freezer and The Hot Zone. She read these books around the age of her current students and after reading these books is when she discovered her “love for reading and biology.” She hopes that by doing this project maybe some of her students will “discover their love for reading and biology like I once did.”
Original source can be found here.
Source: Lovett School
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