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Poets at SAS Pudong – Wednesday Feb 26th
Wow, What a day. Anis Mojgani, Sara Holbrook, Michael Salinger, and Kenn Nesbitt all had full days working with teachers and students at SAS Pudong. The highlight of the day for many and especially the SAS – Pudong Librarians (Barbara, Kimbra, and Tim) was the Poet- Faculty get-together after school. Anis, Sara, Michael, and Kenn came to the Secondary Library and gave an impromptu Poetry exhibition. Each provided poems for the gathered teachers. The poems were powerful reminders about about life, learning, love, parenthood, and being teachers.
Below are just of the few scenes from the Day
Anis Mojgani at SAS Pudong
Today Anis Mojgani continued his work with HS students at SAS Pudong. Anis worked with 10th, 12th, and Theatre Arts students today, (Feb 25, 2014). Below are some scenes of the day.
Anis Working with Students
Holbrook and Salinger At SAS Pudong
Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger continued their work with students and teachers at SAS Pudong today. Below are a few images from one presentation.
A few scenes from a presentation at SAS Pudong
The Poets are here!
Feb 24th, 2014. Anis Mojgani, Sara Holbrook, Michael Salinger, and Kenn Nesbitt have arrived at SAS Pudong. Today each had full schedules of assemblies and class presentations. On the HS side, Anis Mojgani wowed high school students with is rapid paced presentation. Between powerful poems Anis provided tidbits of personal information that revealed his life and motivation. Through out the rest of the day he worked with 9th and 10 grade English classes leading them through the creation of personal poems developed by student generated sentences. Thanks Anis. What a way to start the week.
The rest of the week is filled with class contacts that range through the 9th and 10th grade english classes, various upper level writing classes, and two Theater classes. On Wednesday Anis will participate in a “Meet and Greet” with our other visiting poets as they make themselves available to meet with faculty. One the last day, Friday, our visiting Poets will close the week by participating in our Poetry Celebration. HS students will be lead by our Poetry and Literary Clubs in a Time for Poems. Watch for more information.
Images from today
YALSA College Bound Book List 2014
- Feb 19th- YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association, a Branch of the ALA) has just published its 2014 Outstanding Books for the College Bound. This list can be found at the following Web Link (http://www.ala.org/yalsa/outstanding-books-college-bound ). This list is created every 5 years. For more information about this list, please check out the YALSA List.
Blog Theme Issues
Well it has been a frustrating day working with Blog Themes. The present theme I am using is not doing what I want it to and there are issues with it showing correctly. The options that I have available just don’t feel right. Blog Themes are very personal things. I will have to go back to the drawing board this weekend to get a better feel. The dilemma is the struggle between as Post based blog or a Static Informational type blog. I need a hybrid and nothing is working right now. So bear with me as I work to get the right “feel” that also does the job it needs to.
Library Book Displays
Feb 11th – The Library has active three book displays on the floor. The first, as you enter, is our Poetry Display. This displays many of our poetry books as well as Anis Mojgani’s Poetry Books in honor of the SAS Poetry Slam, Feb 24-28th. The second display is our Romance Book Display in honor of Valentine’s Day this Friday. The final is our Read-alikes “If you like Ann Patchett you like these” Display. Drop by the library to grab that next great read.
Destiny Ebook Links for the Getty Virtual Library
A great thanks to the Getty Publications Virtual Library (Art). We have been copy cataloging and adding resource links with for as many books as possible that have existing Marc Records. While we have not added the books directly on to our server, we have added the weblink to the book at the Virtual Library so that our students can in their catalog search also find the Getty Virtual Library books as well. This is a huge thing that the Getty Publication Virtual Library has done because it had greatly increased the opportunity for our students to have access to these great resources. We are populating a Public Resource list and when we are finished the project we will add a Copy Category as well. A direct link to the Getty Publication Virtual Library is http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.html.
Michael L. Printz Honor and Award Book List
The SAS PD Secondary Library has created a Michael L. Printz Award/Honor Book List of books that the Library has on its shelves.. Check out the link tab above and get straight into the list. You can also download a PDF Version of the list or use the active html version. When you select a title from the Active List you will be taken to SAS PD Destiny Title record for the book. In that our Destiny is open you will be able to view the title record and see if the book/playaway is available at the library. If you want to put a hold on the book you will have to log in your SAS PD Destiny account (Use your student ID and password). You will have to use the back arrow to return from the SAS PD Destiny site to this blog page.
Michael L. Printz Internal Link This link will take you to this blog’s list of Winners and Honor Books
For more information about the Michael L. Printz Award please visit the Official Site http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award or look at the complete Printz Award Winners and Honor Lists at http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/printzaward/previouswinners/winners
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