My students loved Schooled and No More Dead Dogs. Both are a pretty quick reads
and the kids thought they were funny.
Janet Kanady
Janet Kanady
Library Media Specialist
Dover Middle School
P.O. Box 325
Dover, AR 72837
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1. TAR: ELEM: Has anyone used this DVD?
2. TAR: ideas for middle school "information literacy class"
3. Tar: Librarian in NJ that is NBCT
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:46:06 -0500
From: Becky Henderson <hendersonb@USD231.COM>
Subject: TAR: ELEM: Has anyone used this DVD?
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Hi, all:
My principal received a promotional email about a DVD and study guide =
called "The US Constitution and Independence Hall," from PHAR Productions. =
Has anyone seen this or used it? I've checked out the company's website =
and there is very little information there. In these tight budget times, =
I'd like to know what I'm buying before I spend the money!
Thanks,
Becky
Becky Henderson, MLS
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Dear Kansas Elementary, Junior High or Middle School Principal:
Does your school have an engaging DVD program to use in classrooms for =
Constitution Day September 17th which is also aligned to the Kansas =
Curricular Standards for 5th grade (benchmark 2&3) and 8th grade =
(benchmark 1&3)?=20
=20
The US Constitution and Independence Hall is an outstanding supplement =
to your social studies curriculum. This program is not available from =
your video on demand service.=20
Here is information on the US Constitution and Independence Hall by =
PHAR Productions which is a 2006 release. The DVD which comes complete =
with a wall poster of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, a lesson, =
an interactive glossary of terms, and also a replica of the =
Constitution. The price is $129.00 and shipping charges are $12.95. I =
have attached an order form for your convenience.=20
The DVD is chaptered for quick access to key concepts.=20
a.. Chapters include=20
a.. Introduction=20
b.. City of Philadelphia
c.. History of Philadelphia
d.. American Revolution
e.. Plan for a new government
f.. Great Compromise
g.. Signing of the Constitution
h.. Bill of Rights
i.. Conclusion
b.. Was filmed during August 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania=20
c.. Ethnic diversity to engage student attention. The narrator is an =
African American.=20
d.. The producer uses a variety of camera angles and graphics which =
appeals to students=20
e.. Can also be used for Constitution Day, September 17th, as mandated =
by law=20
f.. Has an interactive glossary of terms=20
g.. Contains a classroom activity that can be duplicated=20
h.. An authentic replica of the original Constitution is also included =
i.. A large wall poster of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is =
included=20
j.. Can also be sent in VHS format with the classroom activities on a =
disk=20
k.. PHAR Productions is a minority owned business.=20
The price is $129.00 and shipping is $12.95. Please make all purchase =
orders out to PHAR Productions. Please mail to Laureen Bowman, 35460 =
Heritage Lane, Farmington, MI 48335. My fax number is 248-474-5090. My =
telephone number is 248-474-6527.=20
Thank you.
Laureen Bowman
248-474-5090 FAX
248-474-6527
Laureen@archieassociates.com
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:35:53 -0400
From: James Lerman <lermanj@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: TAR: ideas for middle school "information literacy class"
Laura,
You will find an extensive list of information literacy and study skills
resources for the middle level at my project's website at
www.tinyurl/l5xst
If you can't access it from work, try from home...sometimes there are
issues.
Hope this helps.
Jim Lerman
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:41 AM, MacArthur, Laura <lmacarthur@ahacademy.com
> wrote:
> Help, please!!
>
> I just found out that I'm going to be teaching a fixed schedule "specials"
> class for our 7th and 8th graders - my school year starts in a week and a
> half, and my plate was already overflowing before this! Not to mention that
> I am *so* not a fan of teaching info lit skills this way...but I digress...
>
> The administration has detailed me to teach an info lit skills course with
> a strong dose of computer skills, primarily Microsoft Office and some basic
> Web 2.0 tools. Let me say that I am comfortable with teaching those things
> within my flexible access schedule, as pieces integrated into the subject
> area teachers' units and projects - it's the idea of having to generate a
> separate class' worth of curriculum and organized, scaffolded plans in such
> a short time that has me reaching for the smelling salts... I do plan on
> trying to work with the subject area teachers to correlate what I'll be
> teaching into their research and project work, but I just don't know if I'll
> be able to arrange that and still have something to work on every week for a
> year - actually, I only need a half-year's worth, since this is a "rotation"
> class that meets 3 days one week, then two the next, alternating with PE or
> another "specials" class.
>
> So, before I babble myself into a panic attack: on the principle of not
> re-inventing the wheel, I turned to my favorite resource, but I haven't been
> able to find anything very recent in the LM-NET archives. I know some of
> you out there teach classes along these lines, and I would *deeply*
> appreciate it if you would be willing to share your experience and
> expertise, whether it's about curriculum or class management issues - I know
> having these kiddos on a regular basis is going to be different that coming
> in as the "special guest teacher" and being enough of a novelty to help hold
> their attention, and I know that evaluating for a semester's worth of grades
> rather than as part of another teacher's project grade is going to be a
> shift, too. Argh......
>
> I'll happily post a HIT of any comments/advice, and if anyone is kind
> enough to send curriculum documents or the like, I'll compile them to email
> to those who are interested.
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
> Laura MacArthur
> Media Specialist
> American Heritage Academy
> Canton, GA
> lmacarthur@ahacademy.com
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:41:00 -0400
From: Sandra Romano <sandra.romano7@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Tar: Librarian in NJ that is NBCT
Hello...I am new to New Jersey and have my NBCT for Librarians. I would
like to get involved with NB candidates and the programs in NJ and would
like some contact information. If anyone can help, please contact me.
Thanks,
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Sandra Romano
Library Media Specialist
Cranford High School
Cranford, NJ
sandra.romano7@gmail.com
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:46:30 EDT
From: Richie Partington <BudNotBuddy@AOL.COM>
Subject: Richie's Picks: MARCHING FOR FREEDOM
Richie's Picks: MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: WALK TOGETHER, CHILDREN, AND DON'T
YOU GROW WEARY by Elizabeth Partridge, Viking, October 2009, 80p., ISBN:
978-0-670-01189-6
"In the eyes of a child you will see." -- John Lodge
Elizabeth Partridge prefaces the first chapter of MARCHING FOR FREEDOM
with a series of four photographs that chronicle the July 8, 1964 arrest of
young Samuel Newall. The series begins with Samuel standing alone in front
of the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama. He is quietly holding up
a handwritten poster board sign that reads: "One Man One Vote Freedom
Register Now SNCC" The photographs record the approach of deputies and
the arrest of the young black child for quietly holding up the voting
rights poster. Samuel Newall appears in the photos to be around nine or ten
years old.
"Across the United States, people were shocked that Dr. King encouraged
children to join in the civil rights struggle. 'A hundred times I have been
asked,' he said, 'why we have allowed children to march in demonstrations,
to freeze and suffer in jails, to be exposed to bullets and dynamite. The
answer is simple. Our children and our families are maimed a little every
day of our lives. If we can end an incessant torture by an single
climactic confrontation, the risks are acceptable.'"
While Samuel Newall was getting arrested in Selma in the summer of 1964
for quietly holding a voting rights protest sign aloft, I was a nine-year-old
spending the summer flipping baseball cards, riding my banana bike,
playing kickball in the street, swimming at the beach, listening to the Beatles,
reading Beverly Cleary, Walter Brooks, and the Sunday funnies, and
regularly experiencing feelings of confusion and discomfort over the films running
on the nightly newscasts of violence being perpetrated against Civil Rights
protesters in the South. I was an attentive student -- both at school and
at catechism -- and what I was seeing on TV just did not make sense given
what I was being taught. What was it that I was missing?
I stare at these photos of Samuel Newall, a black kid in Alabama dressed
in an outfit so similar to those I wore as a child on Long Island, and I
think about how easily, by virtue of birth, I could have been him.
"'Don't worry about your children,' Dr. King had reassured parents.
'Don't hold them back if they want to go to jail.' He was in awe of their
willingness and bravery. 'They are doing a job for not only themselves but for
all of America and for all of mankind. They are carving a tunnel of hope
through the great mountain of despair.'"
Chronicling in word and in image the brutal and sometimes deadly events in
early 1965 that led to the Selma march and to the subsequent passage of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Elizabeth Partridge focuses MARCHING FOR
FREEDOM on the role of children participating in the Civil Rights movement. The
author sought out members of my generation who were children at the center
of the action during those tumultuous and tragic days when peacefully
protesting Americans were arrested and sometimes murdered at the hands of
racist mobs and Southern white cops. It is powerful to hear recollections of
now-grownup-kids who actually can be seen in the forty-four year old
photographs that Partridge has selected for the book -- photos that visually
immerse readers in the spirit of the Civil Rights movement.
A fact that is emphasized again and again by these photos is that the
local churches played a pivotal role in the movement. We repeatedly see the
young people either singing or listening intently inside, or standing outside
their churches. We read how the marchers would retreat, oftentimes
bleeding, to the sanctuary of a church.
Count me as one of my generation who grew up to reject the dictates of the
church in which I was raised just as surely as I rejected my father's
politics. I was content to grow up and leave both of their houses.
Contemplating the significant and positive role that these churches clearly played
in
the lives of these young people in the Civil Rights movement has me
wondering about what my children's generation may have lost out on as a result of
the widespread disaffection that has caused so many of my generation to
reject traditional religious institutions and raise our children without
benefit of the community engendered by those churches.
"Oh freedom
Oh freedom
Oh freedom over me!
And before I'll be a slave
I'll be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free"
Another reoccurring focus of Partridge's work are the songs of the
movement that were being sung inside and outside of those churches. The author
asked of those she interviewed about the songs that gave meaning to their
struggle, and space amidst the text is provided for samples of those songs.
"'It's the good times that make you cry,' Charles told me. 'Not the bad
times. You've seen something be accomplished and it really is
heart-rending.'"
The times have been really good lately. I've cried a lot over the past
year as I did what I could to help Barack Obama -- who was a little boy of
color living in Hawaii while the events in 1965 Alabama were transpiring --
change the course of American history. For the little boy still inside of
me who could not wrap his mind around the variance between what was being
taught in school about the freedoms supposedly enjoyed by Americans, in
catechism about the teachings and example set by Jesus, and the state-sanctioned
violence that was brought into our Long Island living room on the evening
news, MARCHING FOR FREEDOM does a stellar job -- visually and textually --
of helping make sense of what was taking place in those troubled times.
Through it, young readers should come to recognize that the most important
part of becoming an adult in America is having the right and obligation of
making informed choices at the ballot box. In my lifetime, and for my
peers, people died to secure that sacred right.
Richie Partington, MLIS
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:54:24 -0700
From: Mari Howells <marih31@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Nick Magazine
I was just informed by my sales rep at Ebsco that I will no longer be receiving
Nick Magazine because Nick is discontinuing it. I'm still getting it at home for my
kids, so I guess they cancel it through Ebsco first, then they'll inform individual
subscribers.
First, we lost Disney Adventures, and now it seems we're losing Nick. I know
they're not high on the educational content, but those were my most popular
magaines here. Most of our students can't read, and having those magazines and
their great pictures provided real "teaching moments" and nice incentives for the
kids. Any suggestions for a replacement would be appreciated. I do get Natonal
Geographic Kids, among others.
Mari Howells
Librarian
Dr. Gertrude A. Barber National Institute
Erie PA
marih31@yahoo.com
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:34:25 +0000
From: Janet Pfadt <jpfadt1144@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: TAR: Toni Buzzeo
Could you please contact me?
Thanks.
Janet Pfadt
Media Specialist
Fox Hill Elementary School
802 Fox Hill Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46228
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:19:12 -0400
From: "RISI, MARY" <Mary.Risi@RIVERDELL.ORG>
Subject: 8th grade read-aloud
One of my 8th grade English teachers has asked me for a short humorous
novel that she can read aloud at the beginning of the year, the purpose
being introduction of the elements of fiction. I'm wracking my brain.
Any suggestions from the wise crowd?
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Thank you,
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Mary Kay Risi
River Dell Middle School
River Edge / Oradell, NJ
201-599-7250 x2315
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