2016-2017
Remember!
Bring your completed
summer reading game board
to the library
during the first 2 weeks of school!
Collect your reward and enter your name in the grand prize drawing held during Back to School Night - September 13th!
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Celebrate Banned Books Week
September 25 - October 1, 2016
BBW Photo Booth
Get your picture taken with
your favorite banned book.
Thursday, September 29th
BBW Read - Out
Sign up to read or come listen to
passages being read aloud from
To Kill a Mockingbird
Friday, September 30th
Lunchtime
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in-school field trip permission slip -
REQUIRED FOR EVENT!
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Visit with
Photojournalist
Bryan Shih
October 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party.
Photojournalist Bryan Shih will discuss his new book which
presents an oral history and scrap book of the organization,
featuring a range of insightful portraits, interviews, and essays.
Tuesday, October 11th
2nd period*
Books will be available for purchase and signing
* See Ms. Battle for an In-School Field Trip Permission Slip to attend this event.
Events will be held at the Portland Art Museum
and at venues in the surrounding
South Park Blocks area
Jam Comics Workshop taught by Jonathan Hill
Saturday @ 11:30-12:30 in the Crumpacker Library - Portland Art Museum
2017 MOCK PRINTZ WORKSHOP
presented by the
Half-Blood Printzes
Hollywood Library
Saturday, January 14th, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
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2nd Annual Stories and Savories
with Peter Rock
January 18th
Kennedy School - 7 p.m.
Books available
for purchase at the event.
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Students to the Schnitz
Thursday, January 26th, 7:30 pm
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AMC 10 - Tuesday, February 7th
AMC 12 - Wednesday, February 15th
The AMC 12 is the first in a series of competitions that eventually lead all the way to the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Students interested in taking one test (or both) need to sign up in the library no later than Friday, November 18th, in order to have a copy of the test reserved in their name.
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AUTHOR VISIT
Leah Thomas and Len Vlahos
Friday, February 10th - 6th period
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2nd Annual Story Slam
If you're a fan of The Moth, This American Life, or Back Fence PDX,
join the Grant Library staff on
Thursday, February 23rd @ 7 p.m.
in the library to hear student storytellers share amazingly true tales about
DEPARTURES
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Voting will be open March 1st - March 10th
The English class with the most votes wins a party!
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Everybody Reads 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Thursday, March 9th - 7:30 pm
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
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Shamrock Run
Sunday, March 19th
Cheer on the 796.42 runners!
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7th Annual Poetry Slam
Thursday, April 6th
7 p.m.
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Literary Arts presents Siddhartha Mukherjee
Tuesday, April 11th - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall @ 7:30 p.m.
Congratulations to our winning poets:
1st place: Engraver Arnold
2nd place: Dylan Palmer
3rd place: Nikole Davis
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City-Wide High School Poetry Slam
Thursday, April 27th
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Want to cheer on the Grant poets at Verselandia?
See Ms. Battle or Mrs. Xochihua for tickets!
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Congratulations to both of our
Verselandia Poets who placed in the Top 5!
Dylan Palmer, 2nd Place
Verselandia 2017 Grand Slam: Photos by: Naim Hasan Photography
Engraver Arnold, 5th Place
Verselandia 2017 Grand Slam: Photos by: Naim Hasan Photography
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Multnomah County Library
Teen Author Lecture
A. S. King
May 2nd - Grant Auditorium
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