HSS Library eBulletin
Information and Resources for the Staff of Hope Secondary
March 2013
Staff "Check it out and Win" winner...
SETH GODIN has written fourteen books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. Every one has been a bestseller. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything.
American Way Magazine calls him, "America's Greatest Marketer," and his blog is perhaps the most popular in the world written by a single individual. His latest book, We Are All Weird, calls for end of mass and for the beginning of offering people more choices, more interests and giving them more authority to operate in ways that reflect their own unique values, and Seth once again breaks the traditional publishing model by releasing it through The Domino Project. His recent Kickstarter for his newest book (The Icarus Deception out in January 2013) broke records for its size and the speed that it reached its goal.
I definitely recommend following his blog or him, on Twitter.
TED talk worth watching
New in the Library
• The Lynching of Louie Sam - (FIC Ste) - Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,742 lynchings in the United States. In Canada during the same period there was one—the hanging of American Indian Louie Sam.
The year is 1884, and 15-year-old George Gillies lives in the Washington Territory, near the border with British Columbia. In this newly settled land, white immigrants have an uneasy relationship with the Native Indians. When George and his siblings discover the murdered body of a local white man, suspicion immediately falls on a young Indian named Louie Sam. George and his best friend, Pete, follow a lynch mob north into Canada, where the terrified boy is seized and hung.
Inspired by the true story of the lynching, recently acknowledged as a historical injustice by Washington State, this powerful novel offers a stark depiction of historical racism and the harshness of settler life. The story will provoke readers to reflect on the dangers of mob mentality and the importance of speaking up for what’s right.
• The Inconvenient Indian - (970.004/Kin) - Vancouver Sun article on this book.
• February - by Lisa Moore - February's Canada Reads selection
• Adventures in Solitude: What Not To Wear to a Nude Potluck and other stories from Desolation Sound - by Grant Lawrence - Grant Lawrence has long been a leading voice in Canadian arts and entertainment.
For years, the gregarious and encyclopedic Lawrence has hosted the top-rated CBC Radio 3 Podcast with Grant Lawrence, a monthly showcase of Canadian independent music. Grant also hosts Grant Lawrence Live, a live and interactive daily program on CBC Radio 3′s popular web radio station, also airing on Sirius XM 152. Grant can be heard throughout the week on various CBC Radio One programs such as DNTO, All Points West, RadioWest, On The Coast, and various afternoon programs across the country, and has been a frequent past contributor to Q, Spark, and Sounds Like Canada. In the summer of 2012, Grant hosted The Wild Side on CBC Radio One. Grant also hosts many major music events, such as the Polaris Music Prize Gala, the Western Canadian Music Awards and various festivals around North America, and conducts music industry seminars and keynote addresses on music and media related topics. (from www.grantlawrence.ca)
• Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting - by Jim Murphy (940.421/Mur) -
On July 29, 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of Austria-Hungary began shelling the troops of Serbia, the country to the south. What followed was like a row of dominoes falling over, as one European country after another rushed into war. Austria-Hungary's very powerful ally, Germany, joined it four days later to declare war on its neighbors and hurried troops across its borders into Belgium, Luxembourg, and Poland.
Against Austria and Germany stood France, Great Britain, Russia, and their many colonies and allies. The war widened in the months and years ahead until almost all of Europe was fighting. Even such faraway nations as Australia, Japan, and the United States were eventually drawn into the conflict. The soldiers who fought in this calamitous war called it the Great War. We know it today as the First World War.
None of the soldiers who joined this war knew how deadly or senseless it would be. In a matter of days, six million of them would find themselves facing weapons of unimaginable destructive power. None of these young men realized that their leaders had lied to get them to fight in a war that did not have to have happened. Nor would they know that on December 25, 1914, they would openly defy their commanding officers and meet on the battlefield in what can only be descried as a Christmas miracle.
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Shane Koyzan - To This Day Project
If you haven't seen this anti-bullying inspired video, you need to watch it. To This Day Project - http://youtu.be/ltun92DfnPY You may remember Shane Koyzan from the 2010 Olympics closing ceremonies. He is a spoken word/slam poet and is known internationally for his poems.
22 Digital Skills every 21st-century teacher should have
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/02/the-22-digital-skills-every-21st.html Check out this site for suggestions of tools you might like to try.
Science Stuff Worth Exploring
• Recommended video on how a gene works
• Five Offbeat Websites for Nerdy Science Lovers
• Biology resources