Antelope High School Library News
November 2020
Library Happenings
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Native American Heritage Month (NAHM) celebrates "the significant contributions that the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the United States" (LOC, 2020).
Click here to learn more about NAHM and access resources. Click here to browse our library books about Native American culture or written by indigenous authors. Click on NAHM under Topics.
Want to preview some excellent titles that celebrate
Native American culture?
Check out our Choice Board below.
Global Read Aloud Makes an Impact
Still want to participate? You can join us for our final three Zoom discussions on Fridays from 2-3pm. Pick up a copy of the book in our Library or listen to the audiobook, accessible at bit.ly/ANHSGRA from your school login.
Sign up here!
Library Services
Library Updates
If students have specific needs or want to request additional research or technology help from me, they can schedule an in-person appointment or Zoom through Calendly.
Note: Before students enter campus, they will be required to complete a Health Screening Form. This will need to be completed each time that you come to campus.
Chromebook Problems?
Password Issues?
Students can also email the Technology Help Desk directly at help@rjuhsd.us or call (916) 462-9511.
Student Contest Opportunities
New York Times Personal Narrative Writing Contest Closes Soon!
Contest Dates: October 13 to November 17, 2020
New York Times Vocabulary Video Contest
Middle and high school students are encouraged to produce a 15-second video about the meaning of one of the NYT's Words of the Day.
Click the following link for this year’s rules and guidelines. Want to see some past winners? Take a look at the work of the 2019-20 winners.
Contest Dates: November 10 to December 15, 2020
Watch one of the winning videos below.
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world. The contest winner receives a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop.
Click here for the details!
Contest Dates: November 1-30, 2020
Free Speech Essay Contest
Open to juniors and seniors in U.S. high schools, including home-schooled students, as well as U.S. citizens attending high school overseas. Additional questions regarding eligibility may be emailed to essaycontest@thefire.org.
Word Length - Students must submit an essay between 700 and 900 words on the following:
In a persuasive letter or essay, convince your peers that free speech
is a better idea than censorship.
Deadline - FIRE must receive all entries by 11:59 EST, December 31, 2020. Winners will be announced by February 15, 2021.
Scholarship Prizes - One $10,000 first prize, one $5,000 second prize, three $1,000 third place prizes and four $500 prizes will be awarded.
Click here for all of the details!
River of Words Art and Poetry Contest
The theme of the contest is "watersheds." If you don't know what a watershed is, click here! The goal of River of Words is to connect youth with their watersheds - the environments they live in - through engagement in the art and poetry of place. Create art and poetry that shows a real connection to the world around you. Through your art and poetry show what only you see about your world, whether you see a lot of green and open space, a city environment, with different noises, smells, and sights, or something else unique to where you live.
For inspiration and examples of past winning and finalist poetry and art, click here. The picture and poem below are from one of our own student winners here at ANHS!
Click here for all of the details!
Contest Deadline: December 1, 2020
Apprentice Writer Submissions
"Susquehanna University and the Writers Institute initiative invite high school students to submit fiction, memoir, personal essay , poetry and photography for the thirty-ninth volume of Apprentice Writer, which will be published in the fall of 2021" (Vertsman, 2020).
Deadline: September 15 , 2020 to March 15 2021
Click here for all of the details!
Society of Classical Poets High School Poetry Competition
The SCP "invites classic poetry lovers ages 13 to 19 to submit up to 3 metered poems, limited to 108 lines. Poems must contain meter. Counting the number of syllables and ensuring there are a similar number in each line is sufficient" (Vertsman, 2020).
Need help with meter? "Society offers a very useful tutorial on writing poetry with a meter. To learn how to write poetry with a meter, see a brief beginner’s guide on common iambic meter here or a more elaborate beginner’s guide to many kinds of meter here" (Vertsman, 2020).
Deadline: December 31, 2020
Teen Ink Magazine
"A national teen magazine devoted to teenage writing, art, photos and forums, offers an opportunity to publish creative work and opinions on issues that affect their lives of teens. Hundreds of thousands of students aged 13-19, have submitted their work. Teen Ink magazine has published the creative output of over 55,000 teens. Teens can submit an article, poetry, book, novel, photo or a video though this link" (Vertsman, 2020).
Deadline: Ongoing
George S. & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest
"The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) invites all high school students (9th through 12th grades) interested in the American Revolution to participate in the George S. & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest. To participate, students must submit an original 800 to 1,200-word essay based on an event, person, philosophy or ideal associated with the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, or the framing of the United States Constitution" (Vertsman, 2020).
Click here for all of the details!
Deadline: December 31, 2020
Write the World Competition
"Write the World is a global community of young writers, ages 13-18. Write the World offers a rotating list of themed competitions." The current competition (November 2020) is for novel writing. Past competitions include "Historical Fiction (short story), Food Writing, Album Review, Environmental Journalism, Songwriting and Book Review" (Vertsman, 2020).
Deadline: Monthly
Teen Creators
Send in your VOICE OF THE STUDENTS (VOTS) Creations
Click on the link for our VOTS digital magazine edition to see students' shared creative works. Students' original works are included and have not been edited. You can also access VOTS on the library's website.
Thank you to everyone who contributed last year.
Way to be trailblazers Titans!
Reader's Corner
League of Literature (LOL) Book Club
Friday, Dec 11, 2020, 03:00 PM
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Educated by Tara Westover
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.
Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it" (GoodReads, 2020).
Listen to a sample here.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.
Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date" (GoodReads, 2020).
New Arrivals!
Check out Books from the AnHS Library during HUB Time!
If you aren't sure which books you want to check out, watch the following video to learn how to search our Library catalog (OPAC). You can also browse the shelves during HUB time. Gloves will be provided upon student request, and all books will be cleaned after student contact.
Remember that masks are required to enter the Library. No more than 10 students will be allowed in the Library at any given time, and six feet of social distancing will be strictly enforced. Sanitation stations are set up in the Library for student safety.
Access the Public Library for More Choices!
You can also check books out from the Roseville Public LIbrary or the Sacramento Public Library through Overdrive (Libby App), through Hoopla, or through the cloudLibrary. The Libby App can be found on your Chromebook in the Google Play Store. This is how you will access Overdrive eBooks and audiobooks. Hoopla is a digital media service hosted by the Sac Public Library. You can check out eBooks, audiobooks, stream movies, and more. The cloudLibrary is a digital media service hosted by the Roseville Public Library. You can check out eBooks and audiobooks.
To check out a book, search the SPL or the RPL catalog and then select the source (OverDrive, Hoopla, cloudLibrary, etc.) that you want to check the book out from. For the RPL, select Teen Fiction or another collection under Browse for New Items. For the SPL, search for either fiction or non fiction and then select young adult as your target audience. Click here to watch a short video on how to search their catalogs. Once you click on a certain title, you can scroll down to see other read-alikes at both of the libraries.
Need another place to search for trending teen books, check out our BookFlix Choice Board for lots of options!
More Digital Library Resources
Links to several resources.
Project Gutenberg eBooks
LibriVox Audiobooks
Open Library - eBooks and audiobooks
Username: antelopehs
Password: antelopehs
Library Resources
Student Help for Research, Apps, and e-Texts!
CAMERON'S COLLECTION OF EBOOKS FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND AWARENESS
ANHS OPAC (ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG): Access to Quality Websites
SCHOOL DATABASES AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL ASSIGNMENTS
SACRAMENTO BEE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
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