~2008-2009 Campus Events coming soon.~

 

***2007-2008 Campus Events***

 

"We're Booking It!"  Literacy Project

CAMPUS EVENTS:

This year the Golden Key Purdue Chapter is partnering with the Purdue Student Education Association (PSEA) for the school year for a virtual book club for Jackson, Mississippi's Lanier High School via an internet blog site.  The books for the literacy project have been selected and scheduled for the year.  Each book blog discussion will culminate in a live media event!  Our instructions for the literacy project and the virtual book club schedule  is as follows:

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2007

BOOKING IT!  Literacy Project: 

Author Ishmael Beah -- SEPTEMBER 12 from 8pm at the Loeb Playhouse

Ishmael Beah 

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Soldier Boy

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007.

             Students will establish their blogs with the help of the project's sponsors and will begin conversations about Ishmael Beah's captivating and starkly realistic narrative about his experiences as a young boy in Sierra Leone as a refugee, a soldier, and a resident of the United States who has graduated from Oberlin College.  Purdue's Golden Key officers will make contact with Ishmael Beah to establish a public forum with the program's initial bloggers.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007

Bich Minh Nguyen      

Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir 

 Viking, 2007.

            Students will solicit new members who wish to join the earlier bloggers, engaging in similar response activities as those for September-October.  The Purdue Student Education Association officers will schedule a live event with Bich Minh Nguyen that can be video cast in Jackson, Mississippi for the Lanier participants.

 

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008

 Tony Dungy    

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life. 

Tyndal House Publishing, 2007.

             Students at both sites will solicit new members who wish to join the earlier bloggers, engaging in similar response activities as those for the past two books. Officers of Purdue University's Golden Key and PSEA will negotiate a campus-wide event, hopefully involving Mr. Dungy, that will happen during the week of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.   Leaders at the Lanier High School site will be involved as consultants concerning the program, and ways it can be simulcast will be explored.  Hopefully, this will culminate in a two-city event centering on "Principals and Priorities for a Winning Life."

 

 

MARCH-APRIL 2008

John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber.  Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions.  St. Martin's Press, 2005.

            Students at both sites will engage in similar response activities as those for the past three books. Officers of Purdue University's Golden Key and PSEA will sponsor a weekend trip for two of the students at Lanier High School who actively engaged in this first year's project and agree to act as leaders in the program for the 2008-2009 academic year.  They will be flown in for Purdue University "Bug Day" celebrations and will stay on campus in housing provided by the Purdue University leadership.  Meals and activities will be planned in advance by the Purdue leadership, with consultation of the invited Lanier High School students.  During the weekend, the students will consider a new books to share for 2008-2009 and will determine an overall theme for "We're Booking It! 2008-2009."

Take a break from your studies and enjoy reading with the Purdue Golden Key Chapter and the Purdue Student Education Association as we support Mississippi's Lanier High School!  Email this year's chapter president, Dustin, with any questions as he will be providing more information regarding the blog site.