[DeBakey Library Newsletter] February is Book Lovers' Month
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L. G. Hayes
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...and Chocolate Lovers' Month
If you haven't noticed the library display, you may have missed this. Students (and teachers) can have the the chocolate in the display by participating in the Tayshas Reading Program. The Tayshas Reading List is a list of about 70 young adult titles created by the Texas Library Association to encourage students in grades 9 - 12 to become lifelong readers. Remind your students to include these books in their recreational reading or schedule your class for a book talk presentation for these titles.
New Books in the Library
Airlift to America:How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours by Tom Shachtman
Between 1959 and 1963, 800 young men and women from East Africa were brought into the United States and educated in liberal arts colleges throughout the country. These students included future African leaders, Nobel Prize winners and the father of the president of the United States. This book highlights the struggles of these students with the British colonial government, segregation in this country, and the friction between the Kennedy family and Richard Nixon. The companion website airlifttoamerica.org includes additional images and video.
Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, From Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain by Jim Lehrer.
Jim Lehrer has forty years of experience as a moderator for the U. S. presidential and vice-presidential debates. In his latest book, Lehrer gives us an insider's view of what goes on behind the scenes of the televised debates. Lehrer draws from his own experience as "the man in the middle seat" and includes in-depth interviews with the candidates and his fellow moderators.
The Darwin Archipelago by Steve Jones
Even though Charles Darwin is mostly known for The Voyage of the Beagle and The Origins of the Species, he wrote many other books throughout his life. Jones, a professor of genetics, examines how his lesser known works became the foundation for much of modern biology.
Read Across America Day
On March 2nd, the birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss, the library will celebrate Read Across America Day by setting aside the entire day for reading. Schedule your classes in the library for a half hour of silent reading to encourage students to set aside reading time every day. Be sure that you and your students have your reading materials in advance of your visit so that we do not spend your time checking out materials. Come and motivate your students by modeling good reading behavior.
International Festival
This year's Houston International Festival spotlights Argentina. The library has received the 2012 Teacher's Curriculum Guides, and they are in CD format. Guides are not to be given to students, but the CD's may be copied or you may go to www.ifest.org and download the exercises or the entire guide.
An Article of Interest from the Washington Post:
"Seven Misconceptions About How Students Learn
An Addition To Your Personal Learning Network
Will Richardson has been writing about the intersection between learning and online social networking and its ability to transform education for ten years on Weblogg-ed.com. He has been published in many educational journals and authored two books - Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for the Classroom and Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power Of Connections To Transform Education. You can subscribe to his blog, willrichardson.com using Google Reader. If you need a refresher on setting up your reader, please email me or stop by the library.
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong...because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver
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Posted By L. G. Hayes to DeBakey Library Newsletter at 2/23/2012 05:58:00 AM
If you haven't noticed the library display, you may have missed this. Students (and teachers) can have the the chocolate in the display by participating in the Tayshas Reading Program. The Tayshas Reading List is a list of about 70 young adult titles created by the Texas Library Association to encourage students in grades 9 - 12 to become lifelong readers. Remind your students to include these books in their recreational reading or schedule your class for a book talk presentation for these titles.
Airlift to America:How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours by Tom Shachtman
Between 1959 and 1963, 800 young men and women from East Africa were brought into the United States and educated in liberal arts colleges throughout the country. These students included future African leaders, Nobel Prize winners and the father of the president of the United States. This book highlights the struggles of these students with the British colonial government, segregation in this country, and the friction between the Kennedy family and Richard Nixon. The companion website airlifttoamerica.org includes additional images and video.
Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, From Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain by Jim Lehrer.
Jim Lehrer has forty years of experience as a moderator for the U. S. presidential and vice-presidential debates. In his latest book, Lehrer gives us an insider's view of what goes on behind the scenes of the televised debates. Lehrer draws from his own experience as "the man in the middle seat" and includes in-depth interviews with the candidates and his fellow moderators.
The Darwin Archipelago by Steve JonesEven though Charles Darwin is mostly known for The Voyage of the Beagle and The Origins of the Species, he wrote many other books throughout his life. Jones, a professor of genetics, examines how his lesser known works became the foundation for much of modern biology.
Read Across America Day
On March 2nd, the birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss, the library will celebrate Read Across America Day by setting aside the entire day for reading. Schedule your classes in the library for a half hour of silent reading to encourage students to set aside reading time every day. Be sure that you and your students have your reading materials in advance of your visit so that we do not spend your time checking out materials. Come and motivate your students by modeling good reading behavior.
International Festival
This year's Houston International Festival spotlights Argentina. The library has received the 2012 Teacher's Curriculum Guides, and they are in CD format. Guides are not to be given to students, but the CD's may be copied or you may go to www.ifest.org and download the exercises or the entire guide. An Article of Interest from the Washington Post:
"Seven Misconceptions About How Students Learn
An Addition To Your Personal Learning Network
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong...because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver
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