Trinity High school students get another chance to … make it “write”

by PegNews wire

There’s a buzz at Trinity High School surrounding a new club that only certain students are allowed to join.

“We’ve had teachers say they’re getting requests from students who want to join, but this is not for everyone,” Barbara Richardson, coordinator for instructional media, said.

This special members-only group is the Trojan Spirit Reading Club, designed for Trinity seniors who have failed either the reading or writing portion of the state Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exam.

These students must pass the exam this year, or they will not graduate, so Trinity Librarian Marcia Brown is working with Richardson and a committee of campus and district staff to provide the support the students need in reading and writing.

The club has 45 – 50 students in three classes. Each trimester, members of the classes will tackle a new book. The current selection is "We Beat the Streets," by three Newark, NJ doctors who, as teenagers, made a pact to overcome their generational poverty and violent neighborhoods in order to complete medical school and become physicians.

Each student received a paperback copy of the book during a brunch reception hosted by the Trinity PTA in September. Students discuss the book each day, and they write weekly essays, which are evaluated against the criteria used in grading the TAKS test.

All students will submit a final essay, and two students from each class will be selected to participate in the lunch discussion, which will take place at a local restaurant.

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