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JAKE
HALPERN
Mr. Halpern has access to Skype.
Please have the students prepare in advance a list of questions
for him to answer. He will first give a brief presentation, perhaps
showing his latest book or talking about an upcoming project,
and will then take questions. If you prefer, the Q&A can come
first, depending on your students' needs. How you handle the Q&A
is up to you. Sometimes students come up to the screen individually
to ask questions and then the next student comes up. Sometimes
the students gather around the screen to ask questions. The format
will depend on your needs and what kind of equipment you have.
If you have an activboard or some other means to project the images
onto a larger screen, for example, the format might be somewhat
different. In any case, students must be familiar with his novel,
Dormia.
If you
would like a different kind of program, please let us know before
setting up the program and please provide a general idea of what
you would like. Further details will be needed at least a week
before the chat so he can prepare.
He'll also be happy to autograph bookplates in advance of the
chat, but be sure to send them to him in a timely manner so he
can sign them and get them back to you before the chat.
HONORARIUM:
$500 * for 3 one-hour long chats over the course of a day
$350 * for 2 one-hour long chats over the course of a day
$175 * for 1 one-hour long chat
Jake Halpern has reported on Hollywood for National Public Radio
and the New Yorker and, in his spare time, has written an engrossing
and imaginative young adult fantasy novel about the mysteries
of sleep -- which may soon become a movie.
Please visit his website
for more information. His book is available from a variety of
sources, including Booksource,
Barnesandnoble.com,
and amazon.com.
Grade
levels: 5-YA
Residence:
CT
A
FEW WORDS FROM A LIBRARIAN WHOSE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SKYPED WITH
JAKE:
Jake
does a great job. He is personable and funny and talks right to
the kids.... They had decided to treat it as though they were
interviewing him about his life's work and then his three books
in particular. He is such a good speaker off the cuff. I am going
to recommend him to the program folks for our state library conference
in October -- a good new face.
Karen
Perry
Media
Coordinator, NBCT
R.J.
Reynolds
High School
301
North Hawthorne Rd.
Winston-Salem
, NC 27104
email:
perrykm5@yahoo.com
voice:
336-727-2260
fax:
336-727-2053
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