This would be such an awesome on-going library activity! Best Week Ever has a March Madness style bracket war over 90s movies. Doing something with pop culture would be a great way to incorporate the tagline of Pop Goes the Library: using pop culture to make libraries better. If the items in the bracket were more current, say best songs of the year, teenagers would vote and hopefully come to the results program where the final votes would be cast. :)
The program clearly won't last more than five minutes if it is just the final tally, so other fun things should be happening. Perhaps music videos going on in the background? Craft tables featuring awesome crafts, like these recycled cereal boxes turned bookmark? (Thanks Craft)
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During fandom march madness what happened was first everyone made their brackets and submitted them. Then voting began to break it down to the smaller numbers (whatever 32 is called, the sweet 16, the final four, and the champion or whatever that is called as well). But, during the voting, people campaigned for their choices, because everyone was trying to get the bracket they handed in to match the final bracket. It got kind of ridiculous as all things in fandom tend to do, but it was a lot of fun anyway. And then the person who got the most points (aka, their bracket matches the final) got a prize.
It would actually be kind of an awesome lesson to do in school now that I'm thinking about it, incorporating stuff about politics and persuassive writing with them doing a bracket for, like you said, something they'd care about. You've certainly got my mind going...
And in that long thing, I didn't even state the most important point. Letting the kids debate, or express the reason they made this choices would take up time, and so would having them write down a vote and submit it after the presentations.
YOU'RE SOUNDING LIKE A LIBRARIAN!!! I'm so proud!
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