Voting Preparation Workshop for Project Read Learners

VOTING WORKSHOP FOR 

PROJECT READ LEARNERS

Presented by San Francisco Department of Elections Staff

Be prepared for the General Election on November 4.

• Learn more about what’s on the ballot. 

• Find out where, when, and how you can vote.

• Complete your voter registration in                                   time for Election Day.

Wednesday, October 15

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Main Library - 1st Floor Conference Room (Stong Room.)

Please call (415) 557-4388 if you plan to attend.

  

Workshop for Learners, Tutors, and Families

 Digital Digi-pals

Join Brian and our friendly team of techno-teens for help with your cell phone, tablet, laptop or other device. If you bring it in, we’ll try to figure it out!

Some tasty snacks will be served.

Tuesday, August 12
6:00 - 7:30 
Project Read Office and Computer Lab

Digital Digi-Pals -- Help with your cellphone, tablet, or laptop

Digital Device Drop-in

Presented by Brian, Randy and our tech-savvy teens.

Learn some helpful tips for making the most of your 
cell phone, tablet, laptop or other digital device.

If you bring it in, we’ll do our best to figure it out.

Wednesday, July 9
6:00 to 7:30 pm

Main Library, Project Read Conference Room and Computer Lab

Join the Project Read Wednesday Night Readers Book Club

This is the reading schedule for Project Read's learner and tutor book club for the second half of 2014. Tutor-learner teams are encouraged to pick up FREE books and audio books (yours to keep). All we ask is that learners who take these materials make plans to join the lively and rewarding discussions held on the last Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM. We make the unabridged audio books available so that learners at any reading level can take part in these book discussions.

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge (books/audio available June 25, discussion on July 30)
Bainbridge vividly re-creates Robert Scott's early-twentieth-century journey to Antarctica in a fictional account narrated by the imagined voices of Scott and four members of his expedition who were destined to die with their leader. The emotional lives and complex relationships of these five men are beautifully rendered, with passages illuminated by the spiritual and pensive musings of each individual. Bainbridge's richly conceived tale portrays the adverse conditions from the doomed adventure's beginnings. (189 pages)

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (books/audio available July 30, discussion Aug. 27)
 Henry Lee is a Chinese-American in Seattle who, in 1986, has just lost his wife to cancer. Henry hears that the belongings of Japanese immigrants interned during WWII have been found in the basement of the Panama Hotel. As the hotel owner displays objects owned by Japanese internees, Henry recalls the difficulties of life in America during WWII, when he and his Japanese-American school friend, Keiko, wandered through wartime Seattle. Keiko and her family are later interned in a camp, and Henry, horrified by America's anti-Japanese hysteria, is further conflicted because of his Chinese father's anti-Japanese sentiment. (290 pages)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (books/audio available August 27, discussion on September 24)
Each chapter of screenwriter Esquivel's utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico begins with a recipe--not surprisingly, since so much of the action of this exquisite first novel (a bestseller in Mexico) centers around the kitchen, the heart and soul of a traditional Mexican family. The youngest daughter of a well-born rancher, Tita has always known her destiny: to remain single and care for her aging mother. When she falls in love, her mother quickly scotches the liaison and tyrannically dictates that Tita's sister Rosaura must marry the luckless suitor, Pedro, in her place. But Tita has one weapon left--her cooking.  (256 pages)

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (books/audio available September 24, discussion on Oct.29)
In rural Mississippi in the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. Twenty years later, Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friends are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades. (272 pages)

White Fang by Jack London (books/audio available October 29, discussion on December 3)
Up in the frozen north, life is harsh & dangerous. But this is where White Fang, the wolf-dog, feels at home - in the wild. When White Fang lives among man-animals, he must learn to fend for himself. And when he finds himself with a man who is kind to him, he must learn to love. (343 pages – approximate 5th grade reading level)

Voting Workshop for Adult Learners - May 7: 6:00 PM

Presented by San Francisco Department of Elections Staff

VOTING WORKSHOP

Be prepared for the Primary Election on June 3.

• Learn more about the new “open primary” election.

• Find out where, when, and how you can vote.

• Complete your voter registration in time for Election Day.

Wednesday, May 7

6:00 — 7:00 p.m.

Project Read Conference Room — 2nd. Floor

Please call (415) 557-4388 if you plan to attend.

  

Health Care Workshop for Project Read Learners

What Does Health Care Reform

  Mean for You?

Going into effect in January, 2014, Covered California is the marketplace where Californians will be able to purchase health insurance coverage under the federally-mandated Affordable Care Act. We are offering this workshop a second time because the open enrollment period for Covered California will end on March 31, 2014.

Join a representative from San Francisco Health Plan to discuss your health care options available through Covered California, Medi-Cal, and Healthy San Francisco.

Wednesday, March 5

6:00 PM

Project Read Conference Room

Health Care Workshop for Learners: November 12

What does Health Care Reform

 mean for you?

Going into effect in January, 2014, Covered California is the marketplace where Californians will be able to purchase health insurance coverage under the federally-mandated Affordable Care Act.

 

Join a representative from San Francisco Health Plan to discuss your health care options available through Covered California, Medi-Cal, and Healthy San Francisco.

Tuesday, November 12

6:00 PM

Project Read Conference Room

 

Please call 415-557-4388 if you plan to attend.

 

Workshop for Learners, Tutors & Families - August 14

Digital Device Drop-in
 Presented by Brian Castagne & Susan Fink

                                                                
Join Brian, Susan, and some tech-savvy teens to learn

 some helpful tips for making the most of your iPhone,

 cell phone, tablet, laptop or other digital device.

 

  If you bring it in, we’ll do our best to figure it out.

    Wednesday, August 14
 6:00 to 7:00 pm

Main Library, Project Read Conference Room and Computer Lab

 

Some tasty snacks wil be served.
                                                   

 

Join the Project Read Wednesday Night Readers Book Club

 

This is the reading schedule for Project Read's learner & tutor book club for the second half of 2013. Tutor-learner teams are encouraged to pick up FREE books and audio books (yours to keep). All we ask is that learners taking these materials make plans to join the lively and rewarding discussions held on the last Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM. We make the unabridged audio books available so that learners at any reading level can take part in these book discussions.

The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (books & audio available June 26, discussed on July 31)
Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it's 1936 and the Great Depression hits Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother, Jimmie, go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Jimmie's beautiful voice inspires him to leave the camp to be a performer, while Deza and Mother find a new home, and cling to the hope that they will find Father. The twists and turns of their story reveal the devastation of the Depression and prove that Deza truly is the Mighty Miss Malone. (297 pages)

Flight by Sherman Alexie (books & audio available July 31, discussed on August 28)
This is a timely story of a troubled foster teenager — a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father — who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he’s seen. (181 pages)

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (books & audio available August 28, discussed on September 25)
In The Fault in Our Stars, John Green has created a soulful novel that tackles big subjects--life, death, love--with the perfect blend of levity and heart-swelling emotion. Hazel is sixteen, with terminal cancer, when she meets Augustus at her kids-with-cancer support group. The two are kindred spirits, sharing an irreverent sense of humor and immense charm, and watching them fall in love even as they face universal questions of the human condition--How will I be remembered? Does my life, and will my death, have meaning?--has a raw honesty that is deeply moving. (313 pages)

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (books & audio available on September 25, discussed on October 30)
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine that can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future. (267 pages)

A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor (books & audio available on October 30, discussed on Dec. 4)Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug, Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see The Nutcracker while James yearns only to escape-the faux-cheer, the bitter cold, the whole Christmas season. An urgent phone call from his hometown of Looseleaf, North Dakota, sends James into the midst of his lunatic relatives and a historic blizzard. (181 pages)

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (books & audio available on Dec. 4, discussed on January 29, 2014)
The story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. With only television characters for her role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she was determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty, and ultimately her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. (302 pages)

Newspaper Classes for Learners

Thursday Afternoons - 2:00 to 4:00 PM

July 11, 18, 25 and August 1

Project Read Conference & Computer Lab

 

Join us for as many of these classes as you like!

 

At these classes, learners will:

• Read and discuss current newspaper articles.
• Learn new words found in the articles.
• Improve your understanding of what you read.
• Practice writing your thoughts and ideas using the dictionary and the computer.

 

Presented by Vicki Weisman

of the Adult Learning and Tutorial Center, City College of San Francisco



Workshop for Learners & Tutors, April 20

Abacus for the Rest of Us

Join Project Read tutor Hideka of SuperMath (www.supermath.com)

 to explore modern uses of this ancient technology.

Saturday, April 20

11:00am to 12:00pm

Project Read Conference Room

Please call (415) 557- 4388 as soon as you decide to attend.