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Loquacious Library The space to connect October 2015 http://loquaciouslibrary.com More Titles Going Out An increase of 1,274 between last year and this year. Reading Games Currently, there are 73 students and 22 staff members participating in the Reading Games. So far, they have read 484 titles. Students or staff/teachers - if you would like to join the games, just email Susan Myers at [email protected] . New E Books In case you missed the news, we added 2,834 titles to Overdrive courtesy of the Gutenberg project. Overall, there are 3075 books and 53 audio books available through Overdrive. Little/PBL/Parody Lesson Mrs. Little’s students worked on a project based lesson in which the task was to create a parody of an event in constitutional history. Mrs. Layne taught the students how to download music using Freegle (a service from the public library) and how to incorporate that into an iMovie. Research - Topic of Choice Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Hayes brought classes down to learn how to use physical and electronic resources for a topic of choice research project. Students walked through using the SHS catalog and how to filter and narrow searches in DISCUS databases. 0 950 1900 2850 3800 8/1 - 10/29/14 8/1 - 10/29/15 Student who read more do better on standardized tests. Students and staff members enjoyed voting for their favorite team (Vampires or Zombies) during Teen Read Week.

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Loquacious Library The space to connect

October 2015http://loquaciouslibrary.com

More Titles Going Out

An increase of 1,274 between last year and this year.

Reading Games

Currently, there are 73 students and 22 staff members participating in the Reading Games. So far, they have read 484 titles. Students or staff/teachers - if you would like to join the games, just email Susan Myers at [email protected] .

New E Books

In case you missed the news, we added 2,834 titles to Overdrive courtesy of the Gutenberg project. Overall, there are 3075 books and 53 audio books available through Overdrive.

Little/PBL/Parody Lesson

Mrs. Little’s students worked on a project based lesson in which the task was to create a parody of an event in constitutional history. Mrs. Layne taught the students how to download music using Freegle (a service from the public library) and how to incorporate that into an iMovie.

Research - Topic of Choice

Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Hayes brought classes down to learn how to use physical and electronic resources for a topic of choice research project. Students walked through using the SHS catalog and how to filter and narrow searches in DISCUS databases.

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1900

2850

3800

8/1 - 10/29/14 8/1 - 10/29/15

Student who read more do better on standardized tests.

Students and staff members enjoyed voting for their favorite team (Vampires or Zombies) during Teen Read Week.