MJHS Media Center Newsletter
January 2019
MYP Personal Project Focus for January
Did you know that each of us have been assigned a tenth grader who has a very important MYP personal project that is due in just a few short weeks?
If you need resources to help guide your mentee, please utilize the Media Center MYP Personal Project website (and me!) for help!
MLK Day of Service
MJHS students are encouraged to partner with Hands on Atlanta to honor Dr. King's legacy. They have projects big and small, all over the city, that can provide a way for you to serve others!
New GALILEO Password!
Old password : teenage
New password : cooking
WILL BE changed: 01/08/2019
This password will be valid until 05/22/2019.
Remember, passwords must be entered in all lowercase characters.
APS Tech Competition - Volunteers Needed!
For more information on how to help, click here. :)
APS Race to Read Update
APS has exceeded our Race2Read goal of 2 million minutes with 30 schools crossing the finish line in less than 6 weeks! Media specialists - many of whom double as communications ambassadors - have been the driving force behind the success of this district-wide reading challenge. Kudos to you! APS will announce a new goal in the new year. Until then, please encourage your students, staff, and community partners to keep reading and logging minutes over the holiday break. To learn more about who's currently leading in the District, click here.
New Books for the New Year!
I Will Always Write Back
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place.
Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There were only ten letters, and fifty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one.
That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.
In this compelling dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became best friends --and better people--through their long-distance exchange. Their story will inspire you to look beyond your own life and wonder about the world at large and your place in it.
Puddin'
The irresistible companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dumplin’, soon to be a major motion picture starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston!
Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream of being a newscaster—and to kiss the boy she’s crushing on.
Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she’s more frenemy than friend.
When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester, they surprise everyone (especially themselves) by realizing that they might have more in common than they ever imagined.
A story about unexpected friendship, romance, and Texas-size girl power, this is another winner from Julie Murphy.
Blood Water Paint
By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost.
He will not consume
my every thought.
I am a painter.
I will paint.
Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence.
I will show you
what a woman can do.
Volunteers Needed for the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl!
Saturday January 26, 2019
We are so excited for this annual event that celebrates the joy of reading!
To volunteer, please click here. :)
NAACP ACT-SO Competition
ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) is the major youth initiative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Founded for youth of African descent, ACT-SO provides a forum through which the students demonstrate academic, artistic and scientific prowess and expertise, thereby gaining the same recognition often only reserved for entertainers and athletes. ACT-SO is rooted in the firm conviction that all students can succeed and compete at the same or superior levels as their counterparts in classrooms, boardrooms and laboratories across this nation and abroad.
Students can select up to three competitions from a total of 32 offerings in STEM, Business, Humanities, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, and Culinary Arts. Almost 300,000 young people have participated in the program since its inception.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) would like to partner with the your school by asking you to encourage your students to participate in the Atlanta Branch's Academic, Cultural, Technology, Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) competition. The NAACP will hold its Annual National Convention July 21- 24, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan and the ACT-SO Competition will be held July 18- 21, 2019. We are asking you to assist us with this event by sharing the information with your students.
This year’s local competition will be held on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, 1500 Norman Drive, College Park, Georgia. The Awards Ceremony will be held the same day and place after the competition is over.
Email completed applications to mplowden@bellsouth.net or mail them to Dr. Martha W. Plowden, 3104 Topaz Lane, S. W., Atlanta, Georgia 30331. Once received, each student will be emailed the criteria for each of their selected area of competition.
Thanking you in advance for your support of our students and the Atlanta Branch NAACP’s ACT-SO Competition.