Fall 2012

Welcome Back Teacher Prizes

Welcome back Shaker High School faculty and staff. The Media Center Staff is very excited to work with you in the 2012 - 2013 school year. The prize for the first teacher to book library time this year goes to Mrs. Lopez who scheduled her time in the library over summer vacation. The prize for the first teacher to use the lab this year goes to Mr. Desharnais. Congratulations to both teachers! The library staff looks forward to another great year of research, projects, and collaboration.

Teachers Reading Young Adult (YA) Books

Media Circuit

Kelly Wetherbee, resident Shaker High School Librarian, is leading a professional development workshop dedicated to young adult books. The workshop, aptly named, Teachers Reading Young Adult Books, pairs one YA fiction book with one YA non-fiction book every month. Currently, the workshop has twenty-one members. Approximately half the members are from Shaker High School while the other half are from the Junior High. The workshop began

over the summer and will run the length of the school year. Members of the Teachers Reading YA books are required to read two young adult books per month for a total of twenty books.

Teachers attending the workshop will receive fifteen credit hours of professional developThe YA workshop's ment. Teachers who can- next meeting will be not participate in the after October 15th. -school meetings can still be involved online. Online members will blog their opinions on the Teachers Reading YA Books blog site hosted on WordPress.com.

The first YA pairing focuses on the Holocaust. The fiction book selection is, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. The non-fiction selection is, I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson.

What is TASKalfa?
What is TASKalfa? Is it a secret government project taking place here at Shaker High School? Could TASKalfa be a new educational state mandate? Give up? scanner. TASKalfa prints and copies in black and white, and it has the ability to scan and email full color documents. ments for repeated printing. The TASKalfa even has a touch screen interface.

TASKalfa is approxiGreat things come in mately 3.4 feet in width great big packages! TASKalfa is the latest and 4.5 feet in height. This technology addition to the behemoth machine is capaMedia Center. If you have ble of amazing things. recently visited the liTASKalfa can print 80 brary, you will have a pages per minute, perform hard time missing the continuous scans, and even brand new printer/copier/ store frequently used docu-

Banned Book Week: 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books for 2012

September 30 through October 6, 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week. Banned Book Week is an annual event that celebrates the freedom to read. Each year, thousands of individuals and institutions across the United States participate in Banned Books Week, and it has grown into a premier literary event and a national awareness and advocacy campaign against censorship. The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been challenged or targeted for removal from libraries and schools. While books have been and continue to be banned, part of Banned Books Week celebrates the fact that, in a majority of cases, the books have remained available. This is because of the efforts of librarians, teachers, students, and community members who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read. The following book list is the top10 most frequently challenged books for removal from libraries and schools for the year of 2012.

4.) My Moms Having A Baby! by Dori Hillestad Butler 5.) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 6.) Alice Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 7.) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 8.) What My Mother Doesnt Know by Sonya Sones 9.) Gossip Girl Series by Cecily Von Ziegesar 10.) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1.) ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle 2.) The Color of Earth Series by Kim Dong Hwa 3.) The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Freshman Library Orientation Video

The Shaker High School Library staff wanted to come up with a new and innovative way to introduce the freshman class to the Media Center. The idea of filming a fun and functional orientation video from a students perspective was decided upon. With the help of Mrs. Morgan, the student government members took on the task of creating the orientation video. Within a week, the student government members had written the script, filmed the scenes, and edited the video to create the final product. The student government members did a fantastic job. The end product was a six minute video that produces smiles, laughs, and library knowledge. The orientation video coveres all the need to know basics including: operation hours, library passes, how to sign out a book, library rules, and library staff introductions. Additionally, the video has student reflections on what they like best about the library. The video will be shown to all freshman English classes during the two weeks of library orientation. Library orientation will run from September 24th through October 5th .

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