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THE Bookworm FESTIVAL
Are you the type of person who is so de- grade English Teacher, Mrs. Duella Boby.
voted to reading books? So devoted that The stories chosen were mainly the ex-
your fondness reminds you of a beetle tremely popular ones and those that
that feeds on the paper of book pages? In have captured the hearts of numerous
other words, are you a bookworm? For teenagers of nowadays, ranging from Di-
someone like you, there could undoubt- vergent to Catching Fire.
edly be nothing more marvelous than an
enormous get-together for students who Movies related to the passages were
are just as passionate as you are! watched, and the paragraphs read out
were too familiar to the students and a
To make this come to a reality, the Stu- lot of them even had the lines committed
dent Council of Jubail International to memory. Additionally, students had to
School conducted a Bookworm Festival spot certain differences between the par-
event on December 18th 2014, giving stu- agraph in the story and the part of the
dents an opportunity to get to know oth- movie played. This can teach students
er bookworms and share strong interest how movies are not always a copy-paste
in reading with each other. of the original book, and give them rea-
sons to favor books over movies or vice
The event began with a session of Book- versa.
Movie Adaptations, hosted by the higher-
Are you the type of person who is so de- grade English Teacher, Mrs. Duella Boby.
voted to reading books? So devoted that The stories chosen were mainly the ex-
your fondness reminds you of a beetle tremely popular ones and those that
that feeds on the paper of book pages? In have captured the hearts of numerous
other words, are you a bookworm? For teenagers of nowadays, ranging from Di-
someone like you, there could undoubt- vergent to Catching Fire.
edly be nothing more marvelous than an
enormous get-together for students who Movies related to the passages were
are just as passionate as you are! watched, and the paragraphs read out
were too familiar to the students and a
To make this come to a reality, the Stu- lot of them even had the lines committed
dent Council of Jubail International to memory. Additionally, students had to
School conducted a Bookworm Festival spot certain differences between the par-
event on December 18th 2014, giving stu- agraph in the story and the part of the
dents an opportunity to get to know oth- movie played. This can teach students
er bookworms and share strong interest how movies are not always a copy-paste
in reading with each other. of the original book, and give them rea-
sons to favor books over movies or vice
The event began with a session of Book- versa.
Movie Adaptations, hosted by the higher-
