{"id":402,"date":"2012-02-09T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/cindy2\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/march-madness\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:54:58","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">I know it\u2019s only February, but one thing I look forward to every year is School Library Journal\u2019s Battle of the Books which is scheduled to happen roughly the same time as basketball\u2019s March Madness. BoB is a 16 book battle, with a judge responsible for each round and much witty discussion about books. The contest is set up on a chart that looks like the basketball March Madness form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">In school last year, I made a large form for my bulletin board and hung it in the hallway right across from a basketball form. Anyone who wanted to participate filled out brackets before the contest started and the librarian displayed the books in the library along with the write-ups about each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Last week SLJ announced the sixteen books that will be competing this year. You can find the list here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/battleofthebooks.slj.com\/2012\/02\/01\/our-2012-contenders\/\">http:\/\/battleofthebooks.slj.com\/2012\/02\/01\/our-2012-contenders\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">This is a fun contest all in fun. The judges write-ups are great to read. I loved reading them to my classes to show students how you can talk passionately about books and to encourage them to read the contenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">I\u2019m on my 5<sup>th<\/sup> book of the 12 right now. How many have you read?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it\u2019s only February, but one thing I look forward to every year is School Library Journal\u2019s Battle of the Books which is scheduled to happen roughly the same time as basketball\u2019s March Madness. BoB is a 16 book battle, with a judge responsible for each round and much witty discussion about books. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/march-madness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March Madness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}