Windham High School Library September 2018 Newsletter |
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Hello and welcome back! We hope you had a great summer and things are settling in well for you all. This month's newsletter contains information about our new research curriculum, upcoming professional development, the new Digital Maine Library, new teacher resources, books, audiobooks, and more! Don't forget you can "Book Us." Just go to the home page of our website (whslibrary.org) and scroll down. |
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What's New? New Research Curriculum |
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The WHS Research Curriculum Committee met and edited our current scope and sequence to make it more useful and accessible to teachers. The goal of this initiative is to ensure consistency across content areas and grade levels so all students will graduate with the same information literacy skills. More information on the changes will be coming on our PD Day on October 5th. In the meantime, please check out the updated scope and sequence below. |
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"In keeping with Rosen tradition, all content in Financial Literacy is developed for teen learners with their unique learning styles and sensibilities in mind. Teen-friendly articles make economics and personal finance both readily comprehensible and highly engaging. Dynamic videos and relevant photos enhance and extend learning. Financial tools and interactive calculators give teens hands-on practice in financial computation for real-world situations. Financial Literacy delivers curriculum-correlated content; promotes digital literacy and 21st-century learning skills; and offers research, report, and homework help." Username: windham Password: eagles |
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Teacher Resource of the Month |
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A NEW NAME, A NEW LOGO, AND A NEW WEBSITE! MARVEL is now the Digital Maine Library "Maine’s online resources have been known as MARVEL since 2004. The Maine State Library and Maine InfoNet are introducing the 2018 replacement, the Digital Maine Library! A new name, a new logo, a new website and new technologies providing access to both old and new content." (MDL website) We will be providing instruction and assistance with navigating the new Digital Maine Library databases on October 5th. If you have any questions before then, please don't hesitate to ask! |
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Technology Resource of the Month |
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“Flipgrid is a video discussion website that allows teachers to create and moderate 'grids' of short discussion-style questions. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled "grid" display. Grids can be classes, sections, groups of students, research groups, faculty groups, or any collection of users interested in a common strand of questions. Each grid can hold an unlimited number of questions, and each question can hold an unlimited number of responses. Questions are short, text-based prompts (think Twitter) that can include basic formatting (such as bold, italic) and links to websites or documents.” Learn more in Common Sense Media’s Flipgrid review. How are other teachers using Flipgrid? - Art Contests
- Book Summaries
- Describing Content Knowledge
- Design Thinking and Innovation
- Speaking New Languages
- Sub Plans
- Vocabulary Practice
- And more!
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Research lesson idea: Instead of having your students locate a resource and cite it in MLA format, why not provide the citation and have them find the source instead? This has proven to be an effective method of both teaching students the importance of citing their sources and reinforcing their understanding of the basic structure of a citation. If you would like us to come to your class and teach this lesson, tailored to your needs, let us know! |
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes "By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse. This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre." -Goodreads Click on the image above for access to the ebook. (Reminder: Login is your Personal ID # which you can find in Infinite Campus.) Click on the button below for access to a book review. |
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Blood & Smoke by Stephen King BLOOD AND SMOKE: THREE SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF MODERN FICTION AVAILABLE ONLY AS AN AUDIOBOOK Three Stories Includes: - "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe"
- "1408"
- "In the Deathroom"
"Stephen King has forced us to confront our greatest fears. He has guided us through the depths of our imagination to places we never would have ventured alone. Now, in Blood and Smoke, he takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker. In this audio-only collection, the now politically incorrect habit plays a key role in the fates of three different men in three unabridged stories of unfiltered suspense. - In "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," Steve Davis is suffering through intense withdrawal -- from both nicotine and his wife. His desperation for a cigarette and for his ex are almost too much to bear, but that's nothing compared to the horrors that await him at a trendy Manhattan restaurant.
- In "1408," Mike Enslin, bestselling author of true ghost stories, decides to spend the night in New York City's most haunted hotel room. But he must live to write about it without the help of his ex best-friends, his trusty smokes.
- And in "In the Deathroom," a man named Fletcher is held captive in a South American stronghold. His captors will use any tortuous means necessary to extract the information they want from him. His only hope lies with his last request -- one last cigarette, please.
A carton-full of chills and thrills, Blood and Smoke is classic Stephen King. The most mesmerizing storyteller of our time is at his inventive and compelling best. Read by the Author. Although Blood and Smoke has only been published as an audiobook, the stories themselves can be found in Stephen King's publication of "Everything's Eventual." 3 Hours 30 mins (Approx)." -Goodreads Click on the image above for access to this audiobook. Click on the button below for access a book review. |
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"TEDTalks: Phil Hansen—Embrace the Shake" In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation ... and transcend it. User name: windham-hs Password: eagles | | |
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The selections for our next Book Club are Less by Andrew Sean Greer and David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. We will be meeting in the library on October 17th at 2:30. We would love to see some new faces and are looking forward to seeing familiar ones, too! Join us! |
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| | Click on the book cover above to access Greer's website. "Who says you can't run away from your problems?
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all." -Goodreads | | |
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| | Click on the book cover above to access a TED Talk by Gladwell about the story of David and Goliath. "In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored the ways we understand and change our world. Now he looks at the complex and surprising ways the weak can defeat the strong, the small can match up against the giant, and how our goals (often culturally determined) can make a huge difference in our ultimate sense of success. Drawing upon examples from the world of business, sports, culture, cutting-edge psychology, and an array of unforgettable characters around the world, David and Goliath is in many ways the most practical and provocative book Malcolm Gladwell has ever written." -Goodreads | | |
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Digital Pass for Library Instructions |
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- Go to library sign-in page (click on image to left to access)
- Sign in with the user name and password you use to sign in to your laptop
- Click on the "Quick Pass Page" button
- Approve or Revoke the digital pass for each student
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