The Library
Letter
November
2006
Teachers Visiting the
Library in October
Mrs. Baker –
caffeine; famous scientists; Mole Day
Mr. Bartel - online math assessments
Mrs. Bryant -
testing
Mrs. Charles –
online textbook study aides
Mrs. Clark –
Oktoberfest;
Mrs. Curtis –
online math assessments
Mrs. Eyestone –
checking out
Mrs. Flynn –
checking out
Mr. Foster –
Election of 1912; economics
Mrs. Heath – typing;
check out; scavenger hunt
Mr. Johnson – lawn
winterization
Mrs. Kellerman - resumes
Mrs. Karen Maier
- online math assessments
Mrs. Stephanie
Maier – tissue diseases
Mrs. Mason –
online textbook study aides
Mrs. Moore –
presidential biographies; amendment projects
Mrs.
Pfannenstiel – country comparison
Mrs. Schlessiger - online math assessments
Mrs. Tatkenhorst – inventions
Mr. Tatkenhorst - geography
Mrs. Tucker –
checking out
Mrs. Watson – debate research
Everything’s happening @
your GBHS Library
Late Nights
at the Library
Our library stays open
each Tuesday & Thursday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for anyone to
come in and
take a make-up test, get
tutoring, complete homework, work with a group, or use a computer to type or
access the internet.
This is a great time for
students to makeup work or tests missed for sports, activities, or
sickness. Send the test down before the
day is over with any instructions or other items they might need (calculator,
periodic table, etc.).
So far this year we’ve had
173 students visit during our late evenings.
Library Statistics for October
Facilities
Use
Scheduled classes 102
Students on passes 518
Conferences/Meetings 2
Laptop Cart use by class 77
Average # in CAT 13
Materials Use
Fiction books checked out 616
Non-fiction books checked out 152
Reference books checked out 121
Videos checked out 53
Audiobooks & Music out 16
Magazines out 28
Interlibrary
Loan
Requested by us 8
Loaned to other libraries 8
Faculty checkouts 279
Student checkouts 704
New Books New Books New
Books
General Fiction
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
F CHO
Copper Sun
Sharon Draper
F DRA
Forbidden
Judy Waite
F WAI
Graphic Fiction Novels
Mom’s Cancer
Brian Fies
F FIE Graphic
Mystery/Horror Fiction
The Angel Experiment:
Maximum Ride
James Patterson
F PAT Mystery/Horror
Demon Thief
Darren Shan
F SHA Mystery/Horror
Spanish Lanugage Fiction
El Aprehdiz
del Espectro
Joseph Delaney
F DEL Spanish
Artemis Fowl: El Cubo B
Eoin Colfer
F
Colibri
Ann Cameron
F
Story Collections
Love, Football, and
Other Contact Sports
Alden Carter
SC CAR
Non-Fiction
338.973 AME
Are Conspiracy Theories Valid?
001.9 ARE
The Death Penalty: Opposing
Viewpoints
179.7 DEA
Does the Internet Increase
the Risk of Crime?
364.16 DOE
Dreams
154.6 KAL
Enhanced Occupational
Outlook Handbook
R 331.702 FA
The History of Rap and Hip Hop
782.4216 BAK
How Should the World
Respond to Natural Disasters?
363.34 HOW
Joe DiMaggio: A Biography
B DIM
Murder in
Freedom Summer Killings
364.152 CUR
One Small Boat: The Story of a
Little Girl, Lost then Found
362.73 HAR
Protozoan
Mating Rituals
Mandy Charles
592 CHA
Steroids:
At Issue
362.29 STE
Reports Without
Copying
Tired of the copy-and-paste reports from your
scholars?
Here are a few ideas borrowed from a fellow
librarian:
Describe a day in the life of a teenager in (fill in the foreign
country).
Create a children’s biography about __.
Draw four scenes to illustrate important events in the life of
___________ and write text to accompany the drawings.
If you ran for the leader of your country, what would you promise to
improve the lives of your citizens? Why?
You’ve been appointed director of tourism for your country. Design an advertising campaign that
highlights the good parts of your country and minimized the bad ones. You must include a magazine and television
commercial.
Ask higher
level questions: “Why” questions cause
your students to understand cause and effect.
Why do some teens develop eating disorders?
Why do Shakespeare’s words have meaning for people four hundred years
after his death?
Why do most people in
“Which one”
questions ask students to collect facts and make decisions.
Which endangered species is worth protecting?
Which exercise program will get you in the best shape for baseball?
Cures for which diseases in the 19th century would have made
the greatest impact in
“How”
questions ask students to understand problems, evaluate options, and come up
with solutions.
How can our school implement a program to eliminate bullying?
How did Malcolm X influence the civil rights movement?
How can we coax more industry to