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For the month of October we read the book The Pact by Jodi Picoult. During November our book club members decided that we should read a book of our own personal choice! Our next book club meeting will be on November 11th!
I (Mrs. Nored) went to the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville yesterday and today. This is a yearly festival in Nashville sponsored by Humanities Tennessee. I got to meet the following authors and get books signed for the WCHS library:
I hoped that Scott Westerfeld (Uglies series) would also be there, but his wife said that he was on a book tour for his new book, Leviathan. Sara Zarr and Kathryn Williams presented together, and we had the chance to ask them questions. Melissa de la Cruz and Daniel Waters presented together, and their question and answer session was also interesting.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association and several other groups. This week reminds Americans not to take the freedom to read for granted. In 2008 alone, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom received reports of more than 513 book challenges. You can read more about it at: www.ala.org/bbooks.
Hello! I am Leigh Miller, the new librarian at Wilson Central High School. Glenda Davis retired at the end of May. I know she will be missed. I feel so lucky to be a part of such a great school. This is my 8th year to teach and my 3rd year as a librarian. However, this is my first real experience working with high school students!
Over the summer I tried to brush up on my YA reading. I read the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyers. I loved them. I was very hesitant about reading about vampires, however, it turned out to be a wonderful love story. I also enjoyed reading books by Ellen Hopkins. I read both Crank and Glass. These books are written in verse. Both books kept me wanting to read more! I am now in the process of reading Tricks by Ellen Hopkins. I will let you know more about Tricks when I finish it.
We sponsored a bookmark contest for Read Across America. The winner was Chance Howell. Jacob Hooper, Tony Copley and Oscar Caldera received Honorable Mention. Here is a link to our winners and their bookmarks:
http://www.wcschools.com/wch/Library/Bookmark%20Contest.html
Here is a link to some awesome book trailers created by Wilson Central students and teachers in honor of Teen Read Week. Student winners were Darren LaPorte and Rebekah Patton, and the teacher winner was Ms. Shannon Coble.
http://www.wcschools.com/wch/Library/Book%20Trailer%20Contest/Book%20Trailer.html
Thanks to Mrs. Shannon Carney, English teacher at Wilson Central, for introducing us to a great tool–Worldle.net. After helping many students print out their creations today, I was inspired to try it out for myself. Below is a link to what I created:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/225295/Vampire_Books_with_Bite
We are celebrating National Poetry Month by having a poetry contest which is open to all students, faculty, and staff at Wilson Central High School. The deadline to submit poetry is Friday, May 2. There will be prizes!!!
A cool website is http://www.magpo.com/magnet/. You can create magnetic poetry online!
We wish to express many thanks to CHIEF JACK DEMPSEY, one of our ROTC sponsors, for the drawing he did of us for our sidebar. He worked many hours to get it just right and we love it! He is a writer too, so we are hoping to get him to put some of his poems on our blog as well. We have been very busy since fall break getting new materials ready for the shelves and have neglected our blog, but soon we are hoping to begin having some student works added, and doing some podcasts as well.
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