Castro Valley High School Library

Contains over 430 nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century plays performed by leading actors from around the world, recorded specifically for online listening.

Find biographies of contemporary and historical figures.

Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history, compiled by academic experts. Focus on six different phases of Black Freedom:

• 1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)

  2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)

  3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)

  4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)

  5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)

  6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

Includes plays, musicals, and dance performances along with behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, instructional videos, and more.

Provides influential performances and documentaries demonstrating the development of classical music, spanning eras from past masters to modern composers.

Concise social, cultural, and political information on countries, U.S. states, and provinces around the world. 

(Grades 3-12)

A collection of performances, instructional materials, documentaries and interviews showcasing high-caliber performances from dance companies and performers worldwide, including traditional ballet to hip hop, street dance, and modern dance.

Database of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers.

(Grades 6+)

A general encyclopedia. Useful for quick background knowledge about a topic. 

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news and multimedia content.

Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

Provides contemporary video productions and modern reinterpretations of classic plays — all featuring acclaimed actors and directors along with behind-the-scenes archival content.

Full-text access to the New York Times for CVHS students, faculty and staff.

Offers a wide curated selection of opera performances featuring top artists, conductors, and venues.

A collection of more than 1,200 streaming videos provides an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS.

(Grades 9+, IB, AP, College Prep)

Search thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, reports, and more. This resource brings together some of ProQuest's most used databases in education, humanities, psychology, science, social sciences, and news.

Grades 9+, IB, AP, College Prep)

Live performances, covering the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres. Co-created by Quincy Jones & Reza Ackbaraly, this unique collection of highly curated 150 titles makes timeless concerts and global music accessible for research, teaching and learning.

A self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction.

(Grades 8+)

Contains high-definition recordings of top Shakespearean actors and directors, along with supplementary teaching materials designed to help bring Shakespeare to life in the modern age.

Full-text access to the San Francisco Chronicle for CVHS students, faculty and staff

(Adult)

eBook subscription database of over 13,000 titles that supports English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology. 

(Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty)

Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science

Find articles about current issues. This is an excellent resource for speech and debate topics and gathering background information on issues in our world today. 

Enter a simple topic, like "cloning" and select Document Type = Research Topic to retrieve SIRS Leading Issues articles. These curated articles provide useful background information and links to a few more articles in support of or against the topic.

Curriculum aligned resources for the novice school researcher.

Provides a virtual encyclopedia of unique American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and protest songs, as well as a broad range of world music through partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Full-text access to eBooks including fiction, non-fiction and audiobooks.

You can check out a book online, renew it or place a hold on a book. Don't forget to "return" the book on Sora when you are done so another student can read it.

 (Grades 9+, IB, AP, College Prep)

Streaming video platform for major movie hits. Copyright clearance for limited time, classroom viewing. 

Teaching Books provides enrichment content (not full-text access) for books you are reading and teaching, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and more.

Offers access to hundreds of significant plays, documentaries and instructional materials, as well as interviews with prominent directors, designers, writers and actors, providing an authentic behind-the-scenes look at various productions.