New Books

New Books are in the Media Center, including fiction, short stories, manga, and non-ficiton.  Come check them out!

The 3rd Debate - TED Talks and more

TED Blog has posted 10 environmental videos that will help gear you up for the debate on Oct. 22^nd, 2012.
Here are some historical ad campaign videos and articles on the environment related to the Presidential Debates, 2012. You can search within the campaign ads to find a specific focus.

A great cooperative project idea from the NY Times Learning Network; students can create their own historical campaign ads.

Teen Read Week

We just celebrated Banned Book Week...now it's time for Teen Read Week.  The Theme this year is

So come by the media center and see what creepy, crawly, weird, funny, and interesting books are available.

Banned Book Week Survey Results

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Banned Book Week Survey.  Here are the results for favorite banned book from 2000-2009:

At one time in history...

Our interactive bulletin "At one time in history, all of these books have been banned in a library somewhere." features covers of banned books and dispersed sticky notes like a lino website: http://en.linoit.com/. Students and teachers posted their favorite banned books on an autographed sticky beside the book cover.

We are trying to mirror the web's interactivity on a real time bulletin and attract participation from readers in our school.

The First Presidential Debate

Greetings,

We just received 50 new books donated by idebate.org called The Idea Guide to the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates. AHS/SILSA Media Center contacted IDEA, an organization in NYC that published a debate guide for high school students. “The essays in this book analyze the role that the presidential debates play in the election and identify issues that President Obama and Gov. Romney could discuss, providing introductory context and explaining both candidates’ positions.” (Idea, 2012).

Right now about half are being used in an AP history class and 22 were used in a science class to read and discuss carbon footprint.Duffer frames her questions about carbon footprint and the EPA in the presidential debates using Common Core Standards. As her students practice SSR with an article in the debate guide; they prepare to discuss author’s bias.

The NY Times Learning Network is a great resource for teachers. Check out this article on “teaching with the Presidential debates.” http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/teaching-with-the-presidential-debates/

Watching the first debate between JFK and Nixon puts the debates into context and points our attention towards analyzing the effects of media today. 

The dates for the debates are below: 

October 3:  First Presidential Debate,   University of Denver, Denver CO
October 11: Vice Presidential Debate,  Centre College, Danville, KY
October 16:  Second Presidential Debate,  Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
October 22: Third Presidential Debate,  Lynn University, Boca Raton, FLA

Don't miss out on the opportunity to tackle the debates in your own way!

Banned Books Week

September 30-October 6, 2012, is the 30th Anniversary of Banned Book Week.  The media center is celebrating with a survey on your favorite banned books (results to come next week) and displays in the Media Center Hall bulletin board and in the library.  Celebrate your freedom to read!

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Welcome to LibraryVille, the media center blog for Asheville High School and the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences at Asheville.  Here you will find news of upcoming events, promotions, new books and media resources, student work in the media center, and more.