Spanish III

This week both of Ms. Smith's Spanish III classes worked on an immigration project using our Student InfoTrac and Informe Gale Databases. They learned how to use the different features of an advanced search. How fun research can be!

Religion books donated to the library

Ms. Dupree-Dominguez's mother kindly donated some brand new religion books to the library. Come by and take a look. Thank you to Molleen's mom!

Where do you find Religion books in the library? Look under the 200's.

World Cultures visits the library

World Cultures II was in the library this week working on their Political Revolution project. They worked in groups and researched their country using the World History in Context databases.

November Books

Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices.

Transcendence by C.J. Omololu

A girl musician who starts remembering her past lives learns that reincarnation can be dangerous, but romantic too.

Winning the Vote by Robert P.J. Cooney it’s a book about Women’s Suffrage

Legend by Marie Lu

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt’s

Angel, 16, struggles to free herself from the trap of prostitution in which she is caught.

What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

High school senior, Astrid Jones, has many problems. Her dad smokes pot, her mom has “girls” night with her younger sister and her best friend is secretly gay. Astrid is also strongly attracted to her co-worker Dee. This novel details the social, emotional, and psychological hurdles faced by gay teens.

Out of Reach by Carrie Arcos (age 14 to 18)
 With nothing more to go on than hope and a slim lead, Rachel and Micah’s best friend, Tyler, begin the search for her brother who has gone missing and struggles with addiction.

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer (age 12 to 16)
When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos in Congo, she’s not thrilled to be there. It’s her mother’s passion, and Sophie doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. At least not until Otto, an infant bonobo, comes into her life, and for the first time she feels the bond a human can have with an animal. But peace does not last long for Sophie and Otto. When an armed revolution breaks out, the sanctuary is attacked, and the two of them must escape unprepared into the jungle. Caught in the crosshairs of a lethal conflict, they must struggle to keep safe, to eat, and to survive.

Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson (age 14+ Kirkus star)

Fifteen-year-old Laurel attempts to understand and move past a year of her life when addiction to methamphetamine nearly cost her family and her life.

Bomb by Steve Sheinkin (Kirkus Star review 14+)

In late December 1938, German chemist Otto Hahn discovered that uranium atoms could be split, and just a few months later the race to build an atomic bomb was on.

BitterBlue by Kristin Cashore (Companion to Fire and Graceling)

Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.

****Book descriptions from publisher

Fall Class Visits

With the use of our ipads, the Librarian has been visiting classes to give a database tutorial to the students. We subscribe to 18 databases that offer authoritative, relevant and reliable access to articles from academic journals, newspapers, magazines and even videos.

So far I have presented to:
French 3
ESL students
World Arts
Religion 12
Econ 12

And later this month I will present to World Cultures 2

Library updates

This year marks our pilot year for using 1:1 with ipads. We also started using Moodle: a free content management website similar to blackboard. Each teacher has their own moodle page for each of the subjects, and this includes the library. On my library page you will find a section for:

1) Library Tutorial
2) Student Research
3) Teacher Research
4) New Books
5) Book Club
6) Library 2.0
7) Additional links

Under the student research section you can access our catalog, databases and a variety of other electronic resources.