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A 7 page paper examining Imagination Library, the literacy program founded and sustained by the Dollywood Foundation in East Tennessee, as a model for another program more closely aligned with the needs of an inner-city, bilingual population. In the 500 communities in which it operates, Imagination Library provides a library of books to children up to five years old, beginning at birth. The books are for children, but selection is designed to support adult literacy as parents read to their children. PowerPoint presentation available. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSeduFamLit.rtf
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rural area too far away from any metropolitan area to qualify as a "bedroom" has been transformed in the past fifteen years. Impetus was provided by a single business
and its namesakes determination to return some of her good fortune to the hill people instrumental in shaping an amazing character while yet all of them lived in what other
areas of the country would characterize as abject poverty. East Tennessee is filled with natural beauty and relatively little industry. Knoxville, the
eastern-most metropolitan area of the state, has been growing rapidly over the past decade, but most of neighboring Sevier County remained as it had been throughout much of the 20th
century. In terms of attitudes and opportunity, Sevier County had changed little since the 19th century. Containing both foothills and real mountains, the land is beautiful but not
conducive to agriculture aside from cattle and Christmas trees. Most young people could look forward to adult lives no different than those of their parents, working hard and giving
up on education as being irrelevant to their lives. A local literacy program sought to change this scenario, and has had amazing success over the past several years. Model
Program Sevier County contains a tourist town that has been popular as such for several decades. Gatlinburg rests on the boundary of
private property and public lands, bordered on three sides by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The other two communities of the county, Sevierville (the county seat) and Pigeon
Forge, continued as they had for decades. Sevierville contained the service businesses that supported all of the countys population; Pigeon Forge contained the single traffic light that slowed progress
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