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Classroom blackboard art by Great Expectations School staff, 2017, provided the framework for examining writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Welcome to COOK COUNTY READS
Our Winter READING Olympics 2018!

At Boreal Corps, we know that in Cook County everyone gets a gold medal for the skills, attitude, grit and cheerful neighborliness it takes to slide gracefully out of the last weeks of northern winter.

We want to help build that team spirit of expert winter living. And because we know that reading is a big part of our survival kit, we want to showcase what kids have been reading since school started in September.
 
Below we highlight some of the reading journal excerpts  of the fine, thoughtful work of students at Great Expectations Charter School's 7th grade  class of Kathryn Nelson-Pedersen as they travel their own mythic journeys into the world of author J.R.R. Tolkien. 

Join them! Grab a book and journey through the harrowing lands of boreal winter in the titanic battle for spring by reading--and keeping a journal about it!

Thanks to students below, Bryn, Sami, Livi, Gus, Greta and more, for sharing insights into their reading worlds and journaling.

​​Join Cook County Kids and READ, JOURNAL, REFLECT

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​About BorealCorps 
BorealCorps is a children's newspaper and communication club originally sponsored by Boreal Community Media, a 501(c)(3) non-profit Minnesota corporation serving the North Shore www.boreal.org,  through a generous grant of the Blandin Foundation https://blandinfoundation.org/ 2017-2018.

After a year without funders, BorealCorps is back!
As of 2020, we are now sponsored by Minnesota Children's Press  www.minnchildpress.org and its Story Scouts program www.storyscouts.org.

Minnesota Children's Press is a new 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt public charity based in Grand Marais and determined by the IRS to be a tax-exempt public charity in fall 2019. Our goal is to engage rural kids in community-building and civic philanthropy early in life. We have members in grade 2 through high school working to provide local stories and oral histories to emphasize community  and connections.

To donate tax-free or help sponsor our community events, please contact us: [email protected]


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