GRADUATE GREETINGS

Shmoop, one of my favorite websites, offers greetings to this year's graduates: click here to read it for yourself.
Some of their suggestions include:

I also like their "Quote of the Week":

"My only plan after graduation was to become

a full time gunter."

~ Ready Player One  (one of this year's Washington Evergreen Book Award nominees)

IT'S SO SAD - A recent report shows teens aren't reading for fun!

Not that it's a surprise, but I recently read in a Common Sense Media report that teens aren't reading for fun. I have always known high school students don't have as much time to read and that they have many distractions to keep them from reading, but I guess I still was saddened to read this report. If there is one thing I can impress upon you today, it is this: KEEP READING THIS SUMMER!!!! Reading is a skill like anything else, you have to practice and keep doing it to keep your skills strong and proficient. If you don't like to read books, then read the newspaper or magazines (print or online), blogs, eBooks, wikis or even the cereal box! Just READ! It not only will help keep you fluent in your reading, it might even increase your vocabulary and comprehension. I challenge you to read this summer and tell me what you read when you come back in the fall.