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2020 MARCH BOOK MADNESS - Voting starts March 16th
Over the past three years, 16 titles have emerged victorious, most popular, most read.
Which will be declared the champion?
Your votes will decide!
Vote for your favorite books each day.
Each vote enters you in a Daily Prize Drawing
Brackets available NOW in the media center.
Fill out your predictions and turn in to media by March 12th
and you could win the Grand Prize.
STATE POETRY CONTEST - deadline Friday, March 13th
- Students can submit poems in English and/or Spanish languages (bilingual).
- First, second and third place winners are determined by judges for Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, and Grades 9-12.
- Winners will meet author Pat Mora at an awards ceremony in April and receive prizes including Pat’s books and Amazon gift cards.
- Click HERE for details
Students must submit a 750- to 1,000-word essay with a Works Cited page in MLA format addressing the following topic:
"Many American soldiers, including those from South Carolina, were directly involved in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Using the experiences of the liberators, how did these encounters change them and their outlook?"
Student essays are due postmarked by March 27, 2020 or emailed by midnight. The essays will be reviewed by committee, with announcement of the award being made at the student’s awards night. This contest is a one-time award of $500 to one student in grades 5-8.
OMS CLASSROOMS
Team 6-4, Mrs. Fielder - FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS
Mrs. Osterhout's Project Lead The Way
TEAM 7-2's MRS. ROBERTSON TEACHES TEXT STRUCTURE THROUGH PICTURE BOOKS
Team 7-2’s ELA teacher, Mrs. Robertson uses picture book read alouds not only to model a love of books and authors but to also model fluent and proficient reading. This year, Mrs. Robertson is also using picture books read aloud to introduce and review text structures.
During a short lecture, students take notes on a specific text structure. Then as they listen to the picture book being read aloud, they use a graphic organizer specific to that text structure to record details of the story that reflect that particular text structure. Pictured below, students are listening to "Counting on Katherine" by Helaine Becker and recording problem/solution information. The read aloud also introduced some students to the recently deceased African-American Nasa computer, Dr. Katherine Johnson, featured in the movie “Hidden Figures.” Dr. Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 at the age of 98!
OMS STUDENTS WRITE & PUBLISH!
Meet Team 6-2’s Austin Terry, the author of "The Attack of the Nazis" for sale on Amazon! Team 7-1’s Evan Waters and Team 7-4’s Dominic Martinez were looking for ways to publish a book they’re writing together so the three students met in the media center to talk about how the Amazon site works.
Austin explained, “Amazon publishes for free and when you sell a book, they get 15% of the profit for an ebook and 40% of the profit for a paperback book; less costs. Ebooks are free but paperbacks cost $2.00 to make. I had a 12 sided die and I rolled it and it came up 8 so I priced my book at $8.” This pricing strategy made all of us laugh.
Austin’s friend Heath Pinti composed the back cover text and selected the image but Austin wrote the rest of the book by himself. “I wrote the book in Google Docs and uploaded it to Amazon’s free publishing site. Amazon gave me the template for the cover and I got to choose the colors, the font and insert an image,” reports Austin. He has since published a 2nd edition to correct grammatical and spelling errors.
Dominic and Evan's book,“The Adroit", is the first in a planned sci-fi trilogy about people with powers in today’s world- not a futuristic world like in typical sci-fi stories. “We wanted to turn a lot of the typical sci-fi tropes on their heads and make the setting feel like a real world,” said Dominic.
For more information on self-publishing via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, go to https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
Evan and Dominic offer this sample of "The Adroit" for your reading pleasure!
“Stranger Danger!” Is what Eric first says when two men in black suits approach him. He is mystified by their appearance, but soon understands— they have come to take him to the Academy for the Adroit, a “school for advanced students.”However, he soon realizes that the Academy is more than just a private school. It’s a school for people who are adroit, which means that they have abilities that set them apart from the rest of society.
Life goes great. Eric meets Seamus, a hot-headed boy, and Shawn, an empty boy who doubts his own abilities. Together, the three form a “Band of Merry Students,” and together, they are able to survive the harsh treatment from Rescious, an awful boy bent on creating a bad atmosphere for everyone.
And then it goes sour. They discover that something’s up with multibillionaire, Solace Williams. For example, why does he look more tired every time they see him? And why are a bunch of goonies stealing his merchandise?
The answer to these questions, and more, can be found in "The Adroit."
RAA LITERACY SPIRIT WEEK
Click HERE for the March 2-6 Daily News Broadcasts featuring pictures and read alouds from each spirit day. You must have an OMS Canvas account to view.
Congratulations, Sophia Szathmary!
Gordon Korman @ YCPL's Rock Hill Branch
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