AnHS Library News and Resources
January 2020
Parent Newsletter 2020
Click here for some wonderful student contest opportunities in all subject areas!
Teacher + Librarian Collaboration
Get Yourself on the Calendar for Collab in the New Year!
Just a reminder that I am available to help you and your students with resource curation, conducting research, evaluating online sources, digital citizenship lessons, SSR selection, and more. Shoot me an email or stop by to schedule your class.
Did You Know?
Did you know that I now manage the Bookshare and Read & Write programs for the Special Ed Department? If you have a student with a 504 or an IEP in your class and they need ebooks, audiobooks, or help with their reading and writing using technology, shoot me an email, and I can get them set up with the necessary resources. I can access textbooks as well as fiction and nonfiction books for them. Click here for the resources on my website.
App of the Month
Start off the New Year with Informable
Have your students test their news literacy know-how with the new app, Informable, from the News Literacy Project! Students score points for accuracy and speed across three levels of difficulty in four distinct modes: Ad or Not, Evidence or Not, News or Opinion, Checkable or Not. Students can download the app on their phones and sign in with Google.
Curriculum Corner
Using Anthologies in the Classroom
Perfect to supplement a unit while offering choice to your students!
Check out some of our YA anthologies:
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America - excerpt
- Feral Youth - excerpt
- Fresh Ink - excerpt
- Geektastic : stories from the nerd herd
- The Greatest Short Stories
- His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined
- A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope - coming March 2020
- Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
- A Thousand Beginnings and Endings : 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends
- Toil & trouble : 15 tales of women & witchcraft - excerpt
- Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
- Violent Ends
- Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Library Resources
Curated Tech Tools
Check out the Library Webpage or Symbaloo for a collection of favorite technology applications in the classroom. From presentations to organization, videos to comics, photos to avatars, the opportunities are limitless for your students and you.
CAMERON'S COLLECTION: MENTAL HEALTH E-BOOKS FROM GALE
Recommend these wonderful resources to students who need access to support information or utilize for students doing research on mental health topics. Students can download and access these resources from home and as many times as they need to. They can also share them with friends!
SCHOOL DATABASES GIVE YOUR STUDENTS QUALITY SOURCES AND HONE THEIR RESEARCH SKILLS
Do your students need a vetted source for a school project or paper? They can access, on campus or from home, a variety of quality and credible sources right on the AnHS Library Webpage. All logins are now available on one document.
WANT TO ACCESS THE SACRAMENTO BEE IN THE CLASSROOM?
Find current articles in English or Spanish by visiting the Sacramento Bee News in Education website. Log in as a student using the AnHS Class ID lewis and password 2843 found on our Library website under electronic resources. Once you log in as a student select "Read Today's Paper" to choose The Sacramento Bee or El Nuevo Herald. You can also access many other student resources on their website for use in your classroom.
Staff Book Recommendations
I Have a Recommendation for You!
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
If you love historical fiction with a little bit of magic mixed in, then you will love this book. Deeply get to know the characters of the Underground Railroad as Coates weaves an ancestral story that makes you feel all of the emotions and ultimately touches your soul.
Questions??
Contact Johanna McCoy, Teacher-Librarian
Email: jmccoy@rjuhsd.us
Website: https://www.rjuhsd.us/Page/1529
Location: 7801 Titan Drive, Antelope, CA, USA
Phone: (916) 726-1400 6052
Twitter: @anhs_lib