Inheritance is Here!

You have been asking for awhile if we were going to get the new Paolini book, Inheritance.  Well, it is here!  We have two copies so far!  Come and get it. 

Check out the book trailer here–http://youtu.be/IrfGaUSDS-I.

Teens Top 10

Nine thousand teens voted, and the winners are…

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1.  Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster)

2.  Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

3.  Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (Simon & Schuster)

4.  I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (HarperCollins)

5.  The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin)

6.  Matched by Ally Condie (Penguin)

7.  Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson (Little, Brown & Company)

8.  Paranormalcy by Kiersten White (HarperCollins)

9.  Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins)

10.  Nightshade by Andrea Cremer (Penguin)

Teen Read Week

October 16 to 22 is Teen Read Week™ and the theme for Teen Read Week  is “Picture It! @ your library.”  This  is a great one  because it includes so much!  You can read about movies, photography, cartooning or even a graphic nove like mangal.  If uou can read it, you can picture it!

So, don’t forget to read a book for Teen Read Week™ and check out the media center!  We have lots of new books on display!

 

Exemplary Media Center!

This week, the Sequoyah HS Media Center received some exciting news.  We were named an Exemplary Library Media Program in the high school category for the entire state of Georgia by the GaDOE.  We are humbled and want to thank you all for your support.  Winning Exemplary is such an honor for our program, our school, and our district.  We could not have done any of this without our wonderful students, staff, and parents!   Thank you for recognizing the valuable role of the Library Media Specialist.

 We need to give special thanks to Mr. Berman for his support and encouragement.  Also, the 2010-2011 Media Committee was extremely helpful by assisting and guiding us through the application process.  They were our biggest cheerleaders!  Thank you to Mrs.  Lolley, Mr.  Wilson, Mrs. Brown, Mrs.  Meeks,  Mrs. Blalock, Mrs. Flynn, Mr. Baldwin, Ms.  Selden, Mr. Farist, Mrs. Lauletta (parent member), and Mary Catherine  (student member).

 The Annual Exemplary/Exceptional Library Media Program selects two schools on each level based on how well their library media program meets school improvement goals and improves student achievement.  Peer Library Media Specialists and GaDOE staff select the recipients based on the school’s written application, the principal’s narrative, a possible telephone interview, and a probable on-site visit. 

Another part of winning this recognition is presenting our media program along with the elementary, middle and one other high school exemplary programs at the GaETC Conference in November.  Our media center will also host an open house sometime in the 2011-12 school year for the public and other schools/districts to visit.  Stay tuned for more information!

Your Media Specialists,

Jan Reed and Elease Franchini

How Students Use Technology–Infographic

Peach Book Nominees for 2011-2012

Georgia peach book award nominees 2011 2012

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School’s Back in Session but with No Computers?!

We’re back in school, but we have not blogged!  As you all know in the school, we have been a little busy in the media center trying to get the computers in the school free of a virus.  We were barely in the second week of school when it began.  The virus started on a few computers including my laptop and spread quickly.  All computers were shut down accept of the ones needed in attendance and the lunch room.  Slowly more we cleaned and added, so basically two weeks have gone by with us lacking computers and especially the laptops. 

We want to thank all the tech staff from Cherokee County that helped us clean all this up!  It was like a triage center in the media center for awhile, but you were so wonderfully supportive of our staff.  We want to give a big shout out to Mike Z. who worked like a madman  to get it all running again!  Thank you!

 

Peach Book Award Winner

On March 31st at the Kennesaw Children’s Literature Conference, members of the Peach Committee shared the results of the 2010-2011 voting and the nominees for the awards for the 2011-2012 school year. 

Here is the winner for 2010-2011:

                                                                                                                                                                       

  Here is the Honor Book Winner One:           

                                                                                                                                                                    

      

Honor Book Winner Two:

Congratulations to these great authors! What wonderful books!  Did you vote for any of these?

Now lets look at the nominees for next year!  These look great!  Here they are:

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien

  

Black Hole Sun by David McGinnis Gill

  

Bruiser by Neal Shusterman

  

Dirty Little Secrets by C. J. Omololu

  

Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

  

Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John

  

Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff

  

God is in the Pancakes by Robin Epstein

  

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

  

Jane by April Lindner

  

Lockdown: Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith

 

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

 

The Morgue and Me by John Ford

 

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

 

Shift by Jennifer Bradbury

 

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

 

Split by Swati Avasthi

 

The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt

 

 

 

 

Engaging Students in Exploring Real-World Issues with GALE Global Issues In Context

 The ISTE NETS for Teachers (#1) ask teachers to facilitate and inspire student learning by engaging them to explore real world issues and solve problems using digital tools and resources.  Have we got a resource for you to meet this technology standard!  GALE’s Global Issues In Context database allows a student to gain a global perspective without having to view it through a Google search with questionable results.

• Global Issues in Context looks like popular websites, making it easy to use. Country and topic information can be found using a keyword search, browsable topic and issue lists, or the Google Maps-based World Map country and region locator.
• Portals bring a clear and consistent organization to the resources available on issues and countries, enabling students and researchers to compare and contrast global perspectives quickly.
• Original overviews introduce topics and provide a starting point for research and discussion.
• Perspectives, preceded by unique commentaries, include editorials, feature articles, news reports and analysis selected from news sources across the globe that highlight local interpretations and analysis of issues and events.
• Related issues allow students to explore similar topics from various viewpoints, perspectives and locations around the world.
• Related reference articles and interactive statistics are presented to provide context and tools for in-depth analysis.
• Multimedia includes videos, interactive maps, images, podcasts, links to websites, and audio for every article. 
• Related news from journals, magazines and news sources and websites can be accessed easily via links.

Also available is citation information at the bottom of each resource to promote appropriate documentation of resources and ethical digital behavior. 

Let us know if you have any questions about this resource and ask us for the password so you can access this great database.

Tolkien Reading Day Today!

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Today is  international Tolkien Reading Day. The Sequoyah Media Center is proud to have retired SHS teacher and friend, David Cofield as our guest reader today in the media center.  Mr. Cofield will speaking all seven periods to several classes at a time.  He will be presenting information about the life and writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, playing a passage of Tolkien reading (an old LP), reading a passage from Lord of the Rings, and then showing the same read passage from the movie.

Tolkien Reading Day started in 2003 and March 25 was chosen as the day because the is the day the ring was destroyed and is the downfall of Sauron.  You can find out more about this day here.