March Books!

Dust Lands by Moira Young
Leaving the sandstorms of her home Saba embarks on a quest to find her twin brother, and learns she has fighting and survival skills. Great read for Hunger Games fans.

Trafficked by Kim Purcell
Hannah, a young girl from Russia, believes she is sent to live in Los Angeles to work as a nanny. However, the lifestyle she faces is 16 daily hours of slave labor.

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
The sequel to Hush, Hush, Nora continues to be haunted by her fathers death and struggles with her relationship with Patch.

Little Girl Gone by Drusilla Campbell
At Seventeen, Madora is rescued by an older man and they live together for five years before Willis kidnaps a pregnant teenager, forcing her to make a decision about right from wrong.

Religion 12

Immigration Debate Project

Objective
- generate keywords for searches
- distinguish among search results to find the most suitable source
- refine searches using engine tools
- cite sources
- use noodle tools to complete a bibliography

Online Research Tools:
Sweet Search (Exactly like Google, but approved by teachers and designed for student research)
Gale Power Search
username & password: holynames

• Set up an account so you can save your searches
• Do an advanced search
• Keep search assist on (green) if you would like gale to assist with search
• Limit the results to:
• 1) enter dates (suggest looking at articles published only in the last two years
• 2) documents with full text (or images if that is what you seek
• 3) consider changing from keyword to subject during search; try various options
• After you retrieve your results, consider limiting to magazines, news, etc.

Articles:
Catholic sister advocating for immigrant rights
           - US Catholic Bishops information on immigration
           - Quaker information on immigration
           - Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Congressional representative
Border Patrol
Prison guard
Immigrant from Mexico
Undocumented college student
Lots more references for immigration
Travel across the border
Deported
Armed Vigilante


NoodleTools:
Noodle tools is the program we use to help us create citations for our research. If you don’t have a noodle tools account, please follow the directions on how to create an account. If you have an account and forgot your password, talk to Ms. Waller.

Soil Erosion

Students in Earth Science work on a Soil Erosion project in the library. Some of the sites used to do research include:

The Soil Erosion Site:  www.soilerosion.net
United States Geological Survey:  www.usgs.gov
International Erosion Control Association: http://www.soilerosion.net
USDA National Soil Erosion Research Lab: http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=36-02-15-00
International Soil Conservation Organization: http://tucson.ars.ag.gov/isco/index.php
Association of Bay Area Governments: http://quake.abag.ca.gov/erosion/

March is Women's History Month!