SPHS High School Library Newsletter
The Place to Go When You Need to Know
December 2015
The Hour of Code is coming to SPHS!
Do you want to learn to code?
The Hour of CODE at Severna Park HS
December 11th (7:37 am-8:37 am)
if you would like to sign up- click here
Then make sure you see Mrs. Fitzgerald in the library or
Mrs. Barnstead in Room G157 to get a permission slip.
The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski
Username: Evie by Joe Sugg
Me, My Hair, and I : twenty-seven women untangle an obsession
- Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of life!
Parenting the TECH Generation- help students make good decisions when posting to social media sites.
THE YARN podcast!
"Part interviews, part documentary, our concept for Season 1 is to look at one book from all angles. You usually hear from the author of a story, but we wanted to also hear from the people behind the scenes – the editor, the cover designer, the colorist, and more." Jonker
And what book are they looking at?!?!!
Schedule for Season 1 of “The Yarn”:
- Introduction/”This Season on The Yarn”
- Raina Telgemeier (graphic novel expert)
- David Levithan (editor/author)
- Phil Falco (cover designer)
- David Saylor (founder/publisher of the Graphix imprint)
- Lark Pien (cartoonist/colorist)
- Matthew Holm (illustrator)
- Jennifer Holm (author)
Subscribe to the podcast for free on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yarn/id1028877816?mt=2
Happy listening!
Great Apps for Student Success
Scholly Scholarship Search
University tuition fees are expensive, and student debt can hold you back financially even years after your graduation. Scholly helps students out by providing an easy to use app for finding applicable scholarships for a variety of courses and educational levels. Whether you're a high school senior scouting for universities or an undergrad or post-grad looking for a way to ease your financial status, Scholly is going to be a useful tool in looking for scholarships.
Duolingo
Duolingo offers simple courses in a variety of European languages such as French, Dutch and Italian.
The app offers listening and speaking exercises, timed quizzes and other minigames, complete with achievements, skill levels and other tools to gamify the experience. DuoLingo also includes text exercises that challenge users to translate short selections taken from the Web that match their approximate skill level.
Gojimo
Suggestions For New Books
Check out our new SPHS Library Webpage
Contests
Research Resources
New Books
and much much more
The SPHS Library is accepting donations!
If you donate anything to the SPHS Library- please make sure your name and address is on it. You will receive a tax donation letter within 1 week.
For further questions please contact Marianne Fitzgerald mfitzgerald1@aacps.org
SPHS Databases- how do I get to them? How do I log in from home?
Click on Catalog and E-Books
You may access any of our paid databases from home.
Log-Ins and Passwords are available on BlackBoard under SPHS English
Log In Information for SPHS Databases (PDF)