Media Center Memo
October 2013
NEW NONFICTION!
How will you use these titles in your classroom? How can you get these texts into the hands of your students?
ANIMALS:
Animals Welcome: A Life of Reading, Writing, and Rescue (Peg Kehret)
Wild Horse Scientist
Zombie Makers
Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World at the Bottom of the Ocean
How Animals Play
How Animals Think
How Animals Communicate
How Animals Feel
ART:
Chuck Close: Face Book
The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook
BIOGRAPHIES:
Hope Solo
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town
Pope Francis
Malala Yousafzai
Beyoncé
Drew Brees
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became the Possible. . . on Schindler's List
CAREERS:
The Arts
Engineering
Entertainment
Medicine
HISTORY:
The Story of the Negro Leagues
Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers
Master George's People: George Washington, His Slaves and His Revolutionary Transformation
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
Solving the Mysteries of Pompeii
MYTHOLOGY:
Griffins and Phoenixes
Sphinxes and Centaurs
Dragons
SCIENCE:
Wind Energy
Sustainable Agriculture
Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
SPORTS:
Biggest Blunders in Sports
Biggest Chokes in Sports
Weirdest Moments in Sports
Greatest Rivalries in Sports
Greatest Comebacks in Sports
Biggest Upsets in Sports
MEDIA MONDAY
The first Media Monday will be October 21 during your lunch! Please let me know if you'll attend.
Topic: Google Drive, specifically Forms. Learn how to create tests or surveys for your classes--and all results are compiled for you on a spreadsheet! Bring your lunch to the library; I will provide dessert for participants!
COMMON CORE
I've seen some GREAT things going on this year! Please let me know how I can help you "STEP UP" your next research assignment!
REQUESTS
As always please let me know what materials I can order for your upcoming units. If you let me know ahead of time, I can get almost anything you might need!
Your Media Center
Email: barrettm@mtvernon.k12.mo.us
Website: http://www.mtvernon.k12.mo.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1272780538568
Location: 731 S Landrum St, Mount Vernon, MO
Phone: (417) 466-3137