First Meeting of the 2014-2015 School Year

Hello Readers, So SMS Guys Read is set to kick off on August 7 this year.  We will meet that Thursday right after school from 3:00 to 4:00 in Mr. Hutchinson’s classroom, which will be 2421 to start the year. SMS Guys Read Slides 2014-15 So get with your parental units and make sure you…

SMS Guys Read 2013-2014

Hello Readers, With our school year starting up, some students have been in for three weeks and Track Four is getting ready to start on Monday, we need to get Guys Read back up and running. Our first meeting for 7th and 8th grade Guys Read will be on Thursday August 8th from 3:00 to…

Meeting Change

Hello Readers, We are going to have to push our next meeting, set for Tuesday May 28, back one day to Wednesday May 29. I have a school meeting after school that is not going to let me stay for our usual GR meeting.  I hope everyone can rearrange their schedules and stay after school…

Dragon Run Testing Day

Hello Readers,  As you know we are reading the currently unreleased novel Dragon Run by Patrick Matthews.  Don’t worry we don’t have illegal bootlegged copies, we just jumped on the power of Scholastic Book Orders and got it a few weeks before its official release date. In the beginning of the story you will find…

Rube Goldberg Madness

Hello Readers and members of the IBRG, On Friday the lads over here at SMS Guys Read got a few ideas flowing for our Derek Jeter inspired Rube Goldberg machines.  We very much enjoyed watching your video and we can’t believe how similar our plans are.  As you will see things are still in the…

My Life as a Book… The Heist

Hello Readers, We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break, and had loads of time to read.  I didn’t get to read as much as I would have liked, as I was furiously writing, trying to finish my NaNoWriMo story.  At this point I have written 41,701 words.  That’s about 15 chapters and around…

The Curse May Have Worked

Hello Readers, Last Friday the 6th grade chapter of SMS Guys Read met for the first time since our track out break ended.  We didn’t have a lot of time to talk about anything other than our cool new T-Shirts and the fact that over track out the American League championships were happening. Check out…

All Hallow’s Read – 2012

Hello Readers, The 7th/8th Grade chapter of SMS Guys Read met yesterday and we talked up Neil Gaiman’s excellent reading idea for this time of the year. We decided it would make a great public service announcement video.  Take a look and let us know what you think…     Go find that spooky book…