Antelope High School Library News
December 2020
Library Happenings
eBook Launch
Materials Returns for Dynamic Online Learning (DOL) Cohort C Students
When you come to campus, you will enter through the main school gate in the front parking lot and then head to the Library. Please wear your mask and stay six feet apart from the person in front of you. Social distancing markers will help to guide you. Once you check in your materials, you will exit through the back door of the Library and follow the pathway back to the front parking lot. Please exit the parking lot as soon as you are finished checking in your materials.
Remember to check your Library account for a list of all of your currently checked-out books (click here for log-in directions). It is essential that you return all library books and textbooks before Winter Break. All books will need to be quarantined before we can check them out again in January. We also need to ensure that we have enough books for Spring term students! Note: If you have an AP class, you may keep your AP review books and textbooks until May 2021.
Thank you for helping us to keep all students, families, and AnHS staff members safe by following these instructions in adherence with the health guidelines issued by the state and county health departments.
Library Services
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
VSA Playwright Discovery Competition
Young writers, ages 11-18, with disabilities, are invited to submit a ten-minute script of any genre. The script can be based on their own experiences and observations. Through the creation of fictional characters and settings, students can write realistically, metaphorically or abstractly about any topic, including the disability experience. Scripts may be for theater scripts, musicals, multimedia, video, film, or TV scripts, non-linear scripts, or other writing for performance. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by a group of up to five students that includes at least one student with a disability.
Click here for all of the details and to apply.
Contest Dates: November 3, 2020 to March 10, 2021
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Contest
Click here for past winning essays. First place prize is $10,000!
Contest Deadline: January 15, 2021
New York Times Review Contest
Contest Dates: December 8, 2020 to January 26, 2021
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.
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!
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, Jan 15, 2021, 03:00 PM
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Washington Black by Eli Edugyan
When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist.
He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him.
What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe.
From the sultry cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, Washington Black tells a story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again--and asks the question, what is true freedom?" (GoodReads, 2020).
Listen to a sample here.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned--from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren--an enigmatic artist and single mother--who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood--and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster" (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 or our virtual shelves on Destiny. 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 15 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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