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 * Bryant- Webster GIRLZ READ Literature Circle and Service Learning Project 2010**

The primary objectives of this after-school program are:
 * To help students gain an understanding of the roles of women in a variety of cultures by reading realistic fiction, set in a variety of themes and places, that features strong female protagonists.
 * The students will develop their written expressions to literature with classmates and create an on-line community using a WIKKI site, posting reviews and discussions questions of their reads, thus reaching a greater reading audience.

The service learning component of this after-school project will involve the curriculum of Heifer International’s Read to Feed programming. [] Students will learn all about the programming provided through Heifer International for communities in great need. The students will develop book marks, and the money raised from the book marks project will be used to purchase an animal for a family in need.

The primary objectives of the service learning component of the GIRLZ Read program are:
 * Teach and inform the group’s participants about the mission of Heifer International (“To end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth passing on the gift of knowledge about solutions to hunger and poverty has been a focus of Heifer International for over 60 years).
 * Inspire the group’s participants to take action to eliminate hunger both in the Bryant Webster community and their greater global community through two service learning projects.
 * The students in this after-school program will participate as reflective members in our own Bryant-Webster literary community and the greater on-line WIKKI community.