School districts across the state recently participated in "Celebrate Literacy Week!" with a wide variety of literary events and celebrations. In all of our district schools, students participated in the Million Minute Marathon, which challenged Duval students to read a total of one million minutes or more in one day.
Congratulations to the students and teachers of Duval County for exceeding our million minute goal. Even without all of
the totals from every school, we exceeded the goal by nearly 300,000 minutes.
Way to go, DCPS!
| Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! Million Minute Marathon |
| DCPS |
Number of Participating Students |
Number of Minutes Read/Per Student |
Total Number of Minutes Read School wide |
|
Elementary |
29,979 |
24.8 |
743,815 |
| Middle |
12,332 |
21.8 |
269,404 |
| High |
12,800 |
20.4 |
261,006 |
| Exceptional Schools |
411 |
29.1 |
11,970 |
| TOTALS |
55,522 |
|
1,286,195 |
Other events around the district included:
- As part of the statewide recognition of Celebrate Literacy, Fletcher High School students entered a video competition to create a 25 second public service announcement.
- Mandarin Middle School collected 4,701 gently used books for an in-school book swap and book donation.
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Lone Star Elementary students had many guest readers throughout the week, including First Coast News reporter Ken Amaro. Additionally, teachers and administrators joined in the fun by dressing up as book characters and visiting classrooms.
For more information about Celebrate Literacy Week and a list of some of the other events schools participated in, visit our
website.
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