Media Center Activities
Dunnellon High School - 2nd Annual Edible Books Contest
Congratulations to our winners!
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Congratulations to the Dunnellon High School Battle-of-the-Books Team!
First Place in the 2013 District Competition - Way to Go!!
Team members: Amanda Oram, Tunisha Chest-Moore, Krista Dowling, Joseph Satiro, and Danny Rodriguez (Team Captain).
Sponsor: Mrs. Joan Lourenco, Library Media Specialist, assisted by Media Clerk, Ms. Rebecca Jenkins.
FindItFast!
The MCPS Library Services has an interactive website for students to use for research. Done in Flash, the site has 29 interactive areas to use: Click here to go to FindItFast!
Library Media Events and Promotions
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month
Altrusa Read-In
September 24, 2013
Banned Books Week-Celebrating the Freedom to Read!
September 22−28, 2013
Commemorates the most basic freedom in a democratic society--the freedom to read freely--and encourages us not to take this freedom for granted.
Tenth Graders met award-winning author, Neal Shusterman on October 9, 2012!
215 DHS students attended presentation by National Best-Selling Author, Neal Shusterman, during his Fall Book Tour which brought him to Florida!
http://www.storyman.com/docs/NealPublicFlyer.pdf
Seek the Unknown @ your library!
Teen Read Week 2013
Seek the Unknown @ your library! This Teen Read Week™ (Oct. 13-19), YALSA dares teens to read for the fun of it! Teen Read Week is a time to celebrate reading for fun and to encourage teens to take advantage of reading in all its forms —books and magazines, e-books, audiobooks and more — and become regular library users.
Florida Teens Read Program
The mission of the program is to encourage Florida teens to read enjoyable, quality literature that will stimulate imagination, awaken curiosity, expand horizons, enhance verbal fluency, and foster critical thinking and a lifelong love for reading and learning. http://www.floridamedia.org/?page=Flo_Teen_Nominations
Battle-of-the-Books Competition Team
Students who read all fifteen books listed at the link above are eligible to try out for the DHS Battle-of-the-Books Competition Team. The competition will take place on April 30, 2013. Dunnellon High's team members include Tunisha Chest-Moore, Krista Dowling, Amanda Oram, Danny Rodriguez, and Joseph Satiro. Good Luck to the Battle-of-the-Books Team! Go Tigers!
Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! - PSA Contest "Take the Lead and Read!"
Inviting students to create a 26-second public service announcement (PSA) that celebrates and promotes the importance of literacy in the state of Florida. http://info.fldoe.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-6534/dps-2012-163a.pdf%28AttA
Celebrating the fact that Library Media Centers provide materials to meet individual needs, varied interests, abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds and maturity levels of the students served with free access to ideas.
http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek
National Library Week Dates and Resources
National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians observed from April 14 - 20, 2013.
April is National Poetry Month!
Poetry 180 - Introduction to Poetry http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/001.html
May is Get Caught Reading Month!
Get Caught Reading is a nationwide campaign to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read.
Go to www.getcaughtreading.org to see who got caught reading!
Stop by the library media center and ask about our Edible Books Contest. Get Caught Reading!