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Welcome to the GIFTS club homepage!
Who are we? The GIFTS club seeks to promote literacy in both SAS and in Chinese schools. We use our funds to support the Library Project, and the nearby Li Ming Migrant school.

Coming soon; the new, redesigned GIFTS Homepage!
The GIFTS homepage is currently going under renewal. To access the information on the old homepage, please click here. Thank you for your cooperation!
Dear all: Hello, this is Daniel. After thinking about this for a while; I have reached a conclusion about this wikispace. I do not think that this website looks "pristine" (sorry about that xD). I think that an actual website looks much nicer compared to the current wikispace we are on. So here is my proposition: I make a website using Wix (click on the link to see the "Work in progress website) for aesthetic purposes (what we show to the public), and we continue using this wikispace for discussions and notes. Anyways, I will discuss this the next time we meet. Thanks for reading this! -Daniel
Post Script-If we do use the idea of a website, I will transfer all of the website to a new account, so we don't have to see the "daniel_chou1" on it > <...
Work In Progress
Welcome to the GIFTS club homepage!

PublicityCalendar of events
Mr Wild
Mrs Parham
Mrs Mangous
Ms Sun
Mr Merdes
Mr Capilla
Mr Wrzesinski
LITERACY WEEK
Week beginning
February 14 for 2011/2012
Quarter 1
September 8 - 18National Literacy Day
Concert
PREPARATION
T-shirt design and production
iMovie (the general promotion, China and libraries, what people are doing for literacy around the world, why reading is important)
GIFTS booth to be up all that week
request for teachers to dress up as favorite literary character - judging at lunch
requests for students to dress up (posters and advertising)
requests for students to be at the concert publicizing reading and GIFTS
concert organization (where, how)
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Used Book Sale
Sequence
Lunar publicity

The International Reading Association provides background information, fact sheets, and media tips for the day, as well as information on the Association's global efforts to increase literacy.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Literacy
groupings and gender.
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What GIFTS can do= do
Transfer the concert to this day
See what ideas below might work?

Upcoming Events
Books On Wheels
International Literacy Day
Other
Club organization

International Literacy Day
September 8
(IN 1911 - this will be a Thursday in the 4th week of the new school year)
"International Literacy Day is sponsored annually by the International Reading Association and is designed to focus attention on literacy issues. The day is marked by many events throughout the world, including the presentation of a U.S. $20,000 UNESCO International Reading Association Literacy Prize. The International Reading Association estimates that 780 million adults, nearly two-thirds of whom are women, do not know how to read and write. They also estimate that 94-115 million children worldwide do not have access to education. International Literacy Day is just one way the Association strives to increase literacy around the world."
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/celebrate-international-literacy-20584.html
International Literacy Day
The International Reading Association provides background information, fact sheets, and media tips for the day, as well as information on the Association's global efforts to increase literacy.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Literacy
Explore detailed statistics about literacy around the world with this collection of data, which features information separated into age groupings and gender.
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What GIFTS can do=
Transfer the concert to this day
See what ideas below might work?
Other Ideas - International Reading Association's Ideas for ILD
For clubs:
Stage a Fun Run for Literacy and provide donated books to participants.
Invite students, parents, or guests who have lived in other parts of the world to read a story or to talk about classrooms in other countries.
Hold a cultural fair with information displays about children’s native or ancestral countries. Read stories, share songs, and have people dress in ethnic costumes.
Create an event with a reading theme, such as Read Across Asia or Reading Takes Me Places. Be part of read-in chain that celebrates books written by authors of certain ethnic or cultural groups, like the Hispanic American Read-In Chain.
Celebrate with a book fair. Invite an author or illustrator.
Form links with a school or educational group in another country and have letter-writing campaigns, book collections, and other activities that generate media and public interest in your school or group and literacy issues in other parts of the world.
Have older students make books to share with younger students
Hold a press conference to publicize literacy issues in your community.
For teachers
Use newspapers to go global — conduct a scavenger hunt for country names or compare how stories are covered by newspapers from different parts of the world.
Match different alphabets (Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hindi, etc.) to countries.
Read and compare folk tales from different countries.
Have students select countries, research essays on similarities/differences of literacy issues internationally.
Ask a local bookstore to donate books to disadvantaged children or for reading contest prizes.
Initiate an annual contest or award. Hold a writing contest for students or senior citizens, or a film contest for the best home video about reading.

Used Book Sale
CollectionStorage point is
Collection boxes
1 outside cafeteria
1 outside high school office
1 outside Ms Santana's room (bottom of high school stairs)
notice to parents
articleAdvertising
High school announcements
collecting in Eagle magazine
Collection of bookshomerooms
PTSA?
notice to parents?
Begin collecting 1st week after spring break
Week 1 March 28 - April 1
Week 2 April 4 - April 8 (Jakarta group is gone April 7 - 11)
Week 3 - April 11 - 15 (Ms Leong is gone April 13, 14, 15)
Sale - Friday April 22
Selling outside cafeteria

Collection point is Ms Santana's room
Collection boxes
2 on every floor
1 outside cafeteria
1 outside the libraryhigh school office
1 outside Ms Santana's room (bottom of high school stairs)
notice to paretnsparents
article in Eagle magazine and Word
Collection of books
Selling outside cafeteria