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Arts center jumps into Big Read
BY ERIKA NELDNER
erikaneldner@ledgernews.com
The Towne Lake Arts Center
(TLAC) recently received a grant
to participate in the National Endowment
for the Arts Big Read for
the second year in a row.
The NEA partners with the Institute
of the Museum and Library
Services and Arts Midwest
for the Big Read.
The arts center received a
$20,000 grant to restore reading to
the center of American culture,
which is the focus of the Big Read.
“We are really excited and honored
to be awarded our second
grant for The Big Read by the National
Endowment for the Arts,”
said TLAC Artistic Director G. Lora
Grooms. “It’s a wonderful program
– the largest of its kind in
the U.S. – and everyone at the NEA
and Arts Midwest is very helpful
and supportive to make sure each
community has a success.”
This year, the arts center, along
with the Sequoyah Regional Library
System, hope to provide free
copies of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a
Mockingbird” to all eighth-grade
students, both in the Cherokee
County School District and those
who are home-schooled.
The classic novel is required
reading for the eighth grade.
They also hope to provide reader’s
guides from the NEA and
Teacher Guides with classroom
activities.
“There is a wonderful stage
adaptation by Christopher Sergel
that we will be performing as part
of our events,” said Grooms, who
wrote the grant submitted. “We
will also be going to the libraries
and schools with special programs
and assemblies featuring
characters from the book.”
Those who read the book will
have the option of completing an
“Atticus Finch Subpoena to Appear,”
which will grant them free
admission to the play. The “subpoena”
is named for one of the
novel’s main characters.
The subpoena will have two
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Vicki Sellers, Youth Services Coordinator for The Sequoyah Regional Library
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Midwest are pictured at the Minneapolis, Minn., orientation June 17.
questions about how the book affected
the reader, Grooms said.
There also will be mock trials,
“A Tea with Scout and Alexandra
– or How to Take a Tomboy to a
Fancy Restaurant at Tea Leaves
and Thyme in Woodstock,”
Grooms said. There also will be a
teen mystery night.
The TLAC chose “To Kill a
Mockingbird” after polling Cherokee
County teachers.
“We contacted Dr. Carla Cohen,
assistant superintendent of
schools for Cherokee County, and
Lisa Tucker, county
literature/media specialist, and
asked them to poll Cherokee
teachers using the NEA Big Read
Book List,” Grooms said. “They
came back with about six books
the teachers would like us to
choose and we selected ‘To Kill a
Mockingbird’ from their short
list.”
The arts center also will be distributing
Spanish readers guides
and Spanish versions of the classic
novel.
The TLAC also will be appealing
to younger readers. “We are also
doing a Little Read featuring
‘Sneetches and Other Stories’ by
Dr. Seuss, and there will be performances
and assemblies featuring
the themes of tolerance, prejudice
and understanding people
with special needs,” Grooms said.
Grooms and others involved
with the Big Read will be working
with local city governments, the
Cherokee Chamber of Commerce
and local businesses.
Any business interested in becoming
a part of the Big Read
should contact Grooms.
Last year, the Big Read in Cherokee
County reached more than
5,000 students and adults in just a
few weeks. The Big Read featured
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
last year.
“Teachers reported students
asking to read more books by
Mark Twain and everyone who received
one of the more than 2,000
books we distributed was so
thrilled,” Grooms said.
For more information, call (678)
494-4251 or go to www.tlaclive.org.
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