HUMOR

[Diane Hollowell <dhbooks@PTD.NET>]

I got a good laugh (inside) and thought you might enjoy.

My students were doing an encyclopedia lesson and they had to uncover =
information about an assigned state.  One of the questions was to find =
the state animal.  The young lady who had Idaho handed in her paper for =
me to check.  I noticed for the state animal she had written down =
"seal".  I proceeded to tell her that Idaho was land locked and wouldn't =
it seem odd for a state with no ocean for a border to have a seal as the =
state animal.  She told me it was in the encyclopedia.  I asked her to =
show me and low and behold there is was the "State Seal."  I then got =
into a discussion about state emblems.

Out of a class of 27 only 2 students in class have ever used an =
encyclopedia to do research.=20

Out of curiosity, how many sets of encyclopedias is acceptable for a =
middle school with 1,400 students and how far back should they be kept?

Thanks in advance for the response,
Diane Hollowell
Librarian in training
South Mountain Middle School
Allentown, PA
dhbooks@ptd.net

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