MJHS Media Center Newsletter
January 2018
Media Center Usage for December 2017
Students on pass: 2954
Classes hosted: 44
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MLK Resources
Examine some of the highly complex unwritten practices that predominated during the Jim Crow era. Do remanants of such behavior live on today? Investiate and decide for yourself.
Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
In this lesson, students identify how the rapper, Common and writer, Walter Dean Myers, reinterprets Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolence in their own works. This lesson also aims to expose high school students to nonviolent options of conflict-resolution.
Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Over the course of three lessons the students will compare and contrast the different philosophies and methods espoused by the civil right leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
Bird Box
Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.
Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster?
Shadowhouse Fall
Sierra and her friends love their new lives as shadowshapers, making art and creating change with the spirits of Brooklyn. Then Sierra receives a strange card depicting a beast called the Hound of Light -- an image from the enigmatic, influential Deck of Worlds. The shadowshapers know their next battle has arrived.
Thrust into an ancient struggle with enemies old and new, Sierra and Shadowhouse are determined to win. Revolution is brewing in the real world as well, as the shadowshapers lead the fight against systems that oppress their community. To protect her family and friends in every sphere, Sierra must take down the Hound and master the Deck of Worlds . . . or risk losing them all.
Eliza and Her Monsters
In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, smart, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community. Then Wallace Warland transfers to her school, and Eliza begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.
Through His Eyes: An Artistic Look at the Amazing & Inspiring Tales of Ashley Bryan Fine Art Exhibition
Sunday, January 07, – Sunday, February 04, 2018
Auburn Avenue Research Library
Through his use of both bright colors and black and whites, over a 55 year career, Ashley Bryan has created an artistic resume like no other. As an award winning artist, author, and educator, Ashley Bryan has been a benchmark for aspiring children’s book illustrators around the world. Bringing together pieces from such literary works as The Story of the Three Kingdoms, Sing to the Sun, I’m Going to Sing, The Story of Lightning and Thunder, and Walk Together Children: Black American Spirituals, The Auburn Avenue Research Library celebrates with a small glimpse “Through His Eyes.”
This exhibit is free and open to the public at 101 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30303.