@MVHS Library
August 2017
Welcome Back!
- Purchasing book and video resources to go with your curriculum.
- Purchasing professional resources to assist you in teaching.
- Laminating classroom materials.
- Collaborating on classroom projects including research on a variety of topics, 3-D printing, and anything else we can imagine.
- Breakout boxes with training on using them and ideas for the classroom.
- Using the media center for a change of pace from the classroom.
- Scheduling the media center, computer lab, two laptop labs, and the iPad lab.
- Checking out non-fiction books to use in your classroom for a project.
- Pulling specific topics of books for classes to use in the library.
- There are four Chromebooks available for smaller classes and group activities.
- Assistance using Google and the numerous apps available to teachers and students.
*If you can think of it, we can help!
2017-2018 Gateway Nominees Available
This Raging Light
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
An Ember in the Ashes
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
Under a Painted Sky
In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri.
Come and see me in the library if you have any questions!
Email: tj@mtvernon.k12.mo.us