NL Classroom Pilot

When the ides of March 2020 first hit leaving teachers and students at loose ends, the Youth Ambassadors at Digitally Lit were quick to step up and create meaningful engagement opportunities for themselves and their peers. One such Ambassador, Oliver Hallett of Newfoundland & Labrador, decided to create a fun online quiz focused on the books of Digitally Lit’s partnering publishers. The result was the character quiz, Which Atlantic Canadian Protagonist Are You? 

 

Designed in May 2020  by NL Youth Ambassador Oliver Hallett with illustrations by former NS Youth Ambassador Jessica Parsons, please find the original Character Quiz here. 

 

Always watchful for online resources designed to improve the reading proficiencies of her students, Which Atlantic Canadian Protagonist Are You?  caught the attention of a Newfoundland & Labrador Reading Specialist Colleen Powers. With youth-driven, online solutions in mind, Colleen approached Oliver and Digitally lit to see if they could combine forces and create another quiz, this one for her students. Specifically, Colleen asked that the quiz:

 

• Focus on the diverse place-based identities of Middle-Grade students

• Encourage overall social emotional learning and development

• Cater to the unique learning needs of any Grade 6 classroom

 

Quiz creator Oliver Hallett and Digitally Lit were quick to seize this rare opportunity. With New Brunswick Youth Ambassador Ellie Wilson’s commitment secured as this quiz illustrator, Digitally Lit went on to provide Colleen Powers and Oliver Hallett with a selection of books to consider. The following four books were chosen based on the diversity of social emotional interests, authentic representation and engaging content each covers. In addition, each book creatively represents and connects Newfoundland and Labrador youth to literacy in a way that those set outside of Atlantic Canada could not. They shine a light on artists that exist in our own backyards.