Windham High School Library October 2018 Newsletter |
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Hello again! This month's newsletter contains information about teacher resources, books, audiobooks, and more. Check it out! 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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As most of you learned during our PD session on October 5th, we have a revised research curriculum, as well as lesson plans, ready for you to use in your classroom. If you would like to schedule an appointment with us to go over one of our lesson plans, to review the one you started during the session, or to set up a time for us to teach one of the lessons, either email us or use our Book Us! feature. |
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New Database! Digital Literacy |
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"Digital Literacy — the newest offering from Rosen Digital — is a content-driven, visually stimulating, and media-rich online digital literacy and cyber citizenship resource specifically designed for students in grades 7–12. Maintaining the gold standard set by Rosen Digital's inaugural product, Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers, Digital 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 Research Resources |
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WHS RESEARCH RESOURCES Our new Research Resources webpage is a one-stop shop for all of your Information Literacy needs. Here you will be able to access our revised research curriculum, rubric, 21st-Century Skills crosswalk, MLA 8 Class Guide, lesson plans, and curriculum guides by grade level. Click on the button below to access these great resources! |
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Technology Resource of the Month Gale Databases |
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Gale, Google, and NoodleTools work seamlessly together, making research, citation, and organization easier than ever! Sending articles to Google Drive, posting them to Google Classroom, and importing citations directly to NoodleTools are just a few of the features available to you and your students. If you would like to learn more about how you can use these resources in your classroom, please don't hesitate to ask! Click on the image above to access the Google Toolkit from the PD day. Click on the button below to access a How-to webpage on the Gale website. |
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Lesson of the Month Annotated Bibliography |
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If you want to teach a research lesson on your own but need a little help, you can access our lesson plan bank. We're adding to it regularly, so if you don't see what you're looking for, let us know. The one highlighted this month is on Annotated Bibliographies. To use this lesson, make a copy of it and tailor it to your specific needs. If you would like us to come to your class and teach this or another lesson, let us know! Click on the button below to access the Annotated Bibliography lesson plan. |
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A Hundred and One Days by Åsne Seierstad "For one hundred and one days Åsne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad. Always in search of a story far less obvious than the American military invasion, Seierstad brings to life the world behind the headlines in this compelling - and heartbreaking - account of her time among the people of Iraq. From the moment she first arrived in Baghdad on a ten-day visa, she was determined to unearth the modern secrets of an ancient place and to find out how the Iraqi people really live. What do people miss most when their world changes overnight? What do they choose to say when they can suddenly say what they like? Seierstad reveals what life is like for everyday people under the constant threat of attack - first from the Iraqi government and later from American bombs. Displaying the novelist's eye and lyrical storytelling that has won her awards around the world, Seierstad brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters, from foreign press apparatchik Uday, to Zahra, a mother of three, to Aliya, the guide and translator who becomes a friend. Putting their trust in a European woman with no obvious agenda, these and other Iraqis speak for themselves, to tell the stories we never see on the evening news." -Goodreads Click on the image above for access to the ebook. (Reminder: Login is your PersonalID which you can find in Infinite Campus.) Click on the button below for access to a book review. |
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The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro "On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. Claire makes her living reproducing famous works of art for a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve her situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting—one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when the long-missing Degas painting—the one that had been hanging for one hundred years at the Gardner—is delivered to Claire's studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. Claire's search for the truth about the painting's origins leads her into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. B. A. Shapiro's razor-sharp writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger an absorbing literary thriller that treats us to three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors. It's a dazzling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas." -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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"Cell Structure and Function" "Description: This program explores the basic structure of both animal and plant cells and the specific functions that different cell components serve. After an overview of a complete cell, individual segments dive into detail each of the specific parts. Discrete, pedagogical segments cover: the plasma membrane, extracellular matrix, flagellum and cilia, the nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear envelope, cytosol and cytoplasm, the rough and smooth endoplasmic reticula, the golgi apparatus, ribosomes, lysosomes, vacuoles, peroxisome, and mitochondria. Where plant and animal cells different is made clear, and separate segments on structures unique to plants include the cell wall, plasmodesmata, and chloroplasts. A part of the series Cell Biology: Structure, Function, and Processes. (22 minutes)" |
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The selections for our next Book In the Woods by Tana French and The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James. The date for our next meeting is yet to be determined so if you're interested in joining us, let us know. 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 watch an interview with Tana French. "As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox - his partner and closest friend - find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly convincing and surprising to the end." -Goodreads | | |
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| | Click on the book cover above to read 10 terrifying facts about The Man From the Train! "Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together, faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous Villasca, Iowa, murders, received national attention. But few people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to a train station. When celebrated baseball statistician and true crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel made an astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of this monstrous criminal. In turn, they uncovered one of the deadliest serial killers in America. Riveting and immersive, with writing as sharp as the cold side of an axe, The Man from the Train paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics, amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history." -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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