Maynard High School Library
June is Pride Month Check out our featured works!
APRIL IS POETRY MONTH
FEATURED POEM
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
From Quilting: Poems 1987–1990 by Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 2001 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with permission of BOA Editions Ltd. All rights reserved. https://poets.org/lesson-plan/teach-poem-blessing-boats-lucille-clifton-0
February is Black History Month and please check out some of the works we have put together for you!
Try some of the Sora collection recommendations this month!
Martin Luther King Day is Monday, January 15th! Check out one of these books in honor of MLK. In addition, you may want to check out possible days of service events that honor Martin Luther King: https://www.bostoncares.org/mlkday
There's no time like winter to find a cozy nook and read a book!
What would you like to see in the MHS Library? Add your book ideas to our
Check out some of our new arrivals!
Check out books in the library by Latin X authors as well as the Latin X experience
Featured: Sonja Sotomayor memoir, The Education of Margot Sanchez, Clap When You Land, The Poet X, I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States and many more on Sora!
PAST EVENTS
Juneteenth Resources
Video Explaining the History of Juneteenth
Sora link to ebooks and materials on Juneteenth (sign into Maynard and your school gmail account.
Or explore many new titles in our high school library regarding slavery, race, and civil rights: Caste, The 1619 Project, Four Hundred Souls, and many more!
June: Pride Month Explore our collection and the Sora Collection!
Sora has a wide collection as well; scroll down on their Explore page to access over 1,400 titles!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
FEATURED CONTENT THIS MONTH
MHS Library Recommends
Amanda Gorman's Call Us What We Carry
Come see books about women and by women in our library!
There are so many to choose from, but here are some recommendations:
Learning Ally is now integrated with Clever which will allow students and teachers to use their MPS Google account to log in. If you are not familiar with Learning Ally, it is a big database of audiobooks for any student with a disability related to reading.
You can log in by going to this address and logging in with your MPS Google account:
https://clever.com/in/maynardma/ and then find Learning Ally under district resources.
Or you can click “Log in with your school or district” which is right below the user name and password fields.
There is more detail on this process here:
https://portal.learningally.org/Help/Clever-Educator-Login
Once you are logged in, you can quality students by following these instructions:
Log in to LearningAlly.org with your school educator credentials
Select Manage Students at the top of the webpage
From the dropdown menu above the Status column, choose Pending Qualifications
To the right of the student’s name and information under the Eligibility column, choose Select
In the popup window, select eligibility type (blind or visually impaired, other physical disability, or reading deficit)
Select Save. The student will now have full access to Learning Ally’s audiobook library.
Many titles celebrating Black History Month are on display in the library. Come check them out! Here are some of the authors we have highlighted this month!
Leah Johnson
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Wes Moore
Nic Stone
Our Sora ebook collection has hundreds of books for Black History Month as well. Search "Black History Month" in Sora...
We have many new titles about disability awareness, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Please come check out our collection!
Here are a few of our new titles:
Test your knowledge of media literacy.
Don't miss out on the fun. Sign up for the Gingerbread House competition!
What are you reading this Halloween? Sora has some classics and new creepy tales as well!
I want to read them all!
How many of these books have you read this year?
Come check them out in the library! You can vote in the MHS library, or the public library, or online
Voting open until September 23rd!
National Voter Registration Day is September 20th
We will have a table set up to help you register to vote and or check your registration. 16 and 17 year olds in Massachusetts can pre-register to vote.
What's on your summer reading list? Check out the YALSA Ultimate Teen Bookshelf! ☀️
English Classes Summer Work 2022
Mrs. Steigerwald' classes see below
Ms. Lind's classes see below
Ms. Gerondeau's classes see below
Mr. Luther's classes see below
_2022-23 Summer Reading Honors Writing and Lit I .pdfSummer Reading for Grade 10 2022.pdfSummer Reading for Incoming Juniors 2022.pdfSummer Reading 2022 - ELA - Luther .pdf2022-23 Summer Reading CP Writing and Lit I .pdfRR packet Summer 2022 grade 10.docx.pdfSummer 2022 reader Response grade 9.docx
March 8th is International Women's Day and the month of March is Women's History Month!
Our ebook collection (https://soraapp.com/library/masslibma) has featured so many great books about and by women. These are just some of the 230 titles you could explore:
You can also check out the Women's History Month website and the National Museum of American History's virtual collection.
This site has interesting data on the state of gender bias in the world, and the theme of this year's International Women's Day is "Break the Bias." Check out these videos.
Black History Month--Titles in the MHS library
In honor of Black History Month, we've put together a collection of notable books by Black authors, as well as books about Black experiences in historical and contemporary times. These titles are in our library, but many more are available on Sora or through the Maynard or Boston public libraries. See my recommendation for a Sora ebook below.
Ask me how to help you find more!
Try this link out as well for more resources: https://www.canva.com/design/DAE0pIvaZ70/jxZ-oLxah7BMIksaeZpunQ/view?website#1:historical-black-health-and-wellness
The 2022 Black History Month theme is Health and Wellness. There are many titles on Sora , MPL, and BPL that you might find interesting. I recommend The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on Sora. It is about race, bioethics, and modern medicine.
Coming Soon!
Book Trailer Academy Awards!
Climate Prep Awareness Week September 24th -30th
Check out books in the library about climate change.
Featured works in the library: We Are the Weather; On Sora: Falter, How to Prepare for Climate Change, 1001 Voices on Climate Change, Unstoppable, Climate Migrants and so many more!
More resources: https://www.climatecrew.org/climate_prep_week_2021
Check out all our new titles! Email me to set up a check out! (Some of these books will not show up yet in the catalog, but you are able to check them out directly from me.)
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Climate Change Awareness
Do you want to take a book out of the library? Come in and see me! You can now browse the collection.
Go to this link for works that will help educate you about the history of racism and its continuing presence in our society. Learn how to help combat racisim.
Resources here on history, children's books, memoirs, policing, incarceration
