April Newslettter
Rachael M. Ali Library
National Poetry Month
This April marks the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, which was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, National Poetry Month has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.
Every April, on "Poem in Your Pocket Day", people celebrate by selecting a poem, carrying it with them, and sharing it with others throughout the day at schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, and on Twitter using the hashtag #pocketpoem.
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2016 will be held on April 21. The following link: https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day
If anyone has extra plastic Easter eggs that they would be willing to donate to the library we would like to use them for Poem in Your Pocket Day.
Other Ways to Participate
It’s easy to carry a poem, share a poem, or start your own Poem in Your Pocket Day event. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved:
- Start a “poems for pockets” giveaway in your school or workplace
- Urge local businesses to offer discounts for those carrying poems
- Post pocket-sized verses in public places
- Memorize a poem
- Start a street team to pass out poems in your community
- Distribute bookmarks with your favorite lines of poetry
- Add a poem to your email footer
- Post lines from your favorite poem on your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Tumblr
- Send a poem to a friend
Information for teaching poetry:
Novels in Verse
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
April is School Library Month and National Library Week April 10-16
During this week, the Rachael M. Ali Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating the dynamic changes that are happening in today’s libraries. April 10-16 is National Library Week, a time to highlight the changing role of libraries, librarians and library workers.
This month's question is to create a Because.... statement. Samples are available in the library or in the pictures below. We would like to display statements and possibly send some statements on to the ALA for the Libraries Transform campaign.
Tuesday, April 12 we will be serving a celebration breakfast in the library. Students and faculty are welcome to visit the library before school through 3rd period for a light breakfast.
Reminders and announcements
Remember to put your name on your tests. This saves us time and ensures that tests are returned to you quickly.
Thank you to Mr. Townsend and Mrs. Merritt for sending student work to be displayed during Teen Tech Week. The students enjoyed seeing their work displayed for everyone to see.
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