Menasha Joint School District Library News
February 2013
February 2013
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"What If?" or Alternative History  I was reading the book History Makers: A Questioning Approach to Reading and Writing Biographies by Myra Zarnowski (on order for most school libraries), and I can across the idea of "What If" or Alternative History. It's asking yourself how things might be different if certain events never happened in history. An example would be to use a biography on Rosa Parks. What if Rosa Parks had not refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955? Asking the "what if" can make students question and think deeper about history. The author poses two questions when using "what if" history with biographies: 1. What are the turning points? The times when important decisions are made. 2. What if a different decision had been made? This technique can also be applied to fiction books. Questioning turning points in the book and asking "what if?". |
Searching the School Libraries and Ordering Books From Other Schools Within the District
The district library catalogs can be accessed from any device, anywhere, with internet capability. The video below shows how use the library catalog.
Staff can request materials from other schools by simply emailing or calling the library paraprofessionals.
Here is a list of staff, phone extensions, and hours of the various libraries throughout the district.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Through the state of Wisconsin we have free access to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. You can access it from www.badgerlink.net or from these links:
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Position: Library Paraprofessional
Building: Maplewood Lunch, Menasha High School
Hometown: Menasha, WI
Education: Current Education Student at UW-Superior
Favorite Book: Too Many to List!
Hobbies: Working Out, Listening to Music, and Spending Time at Our Cottage.
Family: Married for 12 years to my husband, Rick. We have two children. Chelsea who is 11 years old, and Elliot who is 8 years old. Our Dog Chewie turns 13 in February.
Fun Fact: I used to bow hunt, gun hunt, and ice fish with my husband. This was all before kids :)
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Great Civil Rights Resources Available in Our Libraries |
 Miles to Go for Freedom by Linda Osbourne Grades 6-10 |  Rosa’s Bus by Jo Kittinger Grades 1-4 |  They Called Themselves the K.K.K. by Susan Bartoletti Grades 7+ |  Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Shelton Grades K-3 |
 My Uncle Martin’s Words for America by Eric Vasquez Grades K-4 |  The Watson’s go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Grades 4-8 |  The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine Grades 5-8 |  We’ve Got a Job: the 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson Grades 7+ |
 A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson Grades 8+ |  Voices of Freedom by Henry Hampton Grades 9+ |  Race: A History Beyond Black and White by Marc Arnonson Grades 10+ |  We March by Shane Evans Grades PreK-3 |
 Rosa’s Bus by Jo Kittinger Grades 1-4 |  The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon Grades 7+ |  Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men who Changed History by Andrea Davis Pinkney Grades 4+ |  Claudette Clovin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose Grade 6+ |
