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Overhead Projector Cleaning
Rock The Vote @ CBHS Library
The district's AV department is no longer cleanring or repairing overhead projectors. Instead, all teachers should clearn their own overheads. For information on how to do this, check the CCISD employee portal and go to District Info, District Departments, and Technology. On the Technology page, the bottom link is "How to clean an Overhead Projector." Click on this for a movie demonstration. If, after a thorough cleaning, your projector still does not focus, see a librarian for help.
The library is currently displaying books and magazines to infour our student body about the upcoming presidential vote. We are "deputized" to register voters so send down those 18 or "soon to be" 18-year-olds that are not registered-we've registered 13 so far. You can also pick up a form to renew your registration if you have moved, married, or just lost it (the registration, that is...).
Did you know?
Read any Good Books Lately?

Everyone has a favorite book or movie that they wish our library carried. Maybe you even feel that we are lacking in a certain subject area. We take requests! If you know of a book that our library should have, contact Michelle. If it's a video or magazine you are looking for, see April.

 

We want to know what you enjoyed this summer during your free time. Michelle sent our an email earlier this month asking for recommendations in an effort to help us all choose the next book to read for fun. This list is being compiled - watch for it in a coming email or newsletter.

 
Banned Book Week

Celebrate Your Freedom to Read
September 25 - October 2, 2004

Banned Books Week emphasizes the freedome to choose or the freedome to express one's opintion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them (ALA). The following books were the most frequently challenged in 2003:

  1. Alice series, for sexual content, using offensive language, and being unsuited to age group.
  2. Harry Potter series, for its focus on wizardry and magic
  3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, for using offensive language
  4. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy
  5. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, for racism, sexual content, offensive language
  6. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, for drugs
  7. It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris, for homsexuality, sexual content/education
  8. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier, for offensive language and sexual content
  9. King and King by Linda de Haan, for homosexuality
  10. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, for offensive language and occult/satanism

Check out the American Library Association's website to learn more about banned books.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/

 
Coming Soon @ Your Library?

Games! The library will purcahse several Chess boards and Scrabble games to amuse our regular students and attract a few more. You also may have noticed the new editions to the library - our library fish. They're a big hit with the kids, and our contest to name the newest one has generated over 50 submissions.

And Finally...

Shiver me timbers! International Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19th. Yarr, for the best of pirate vocabulatry, check out http://www.thomasscott.net/yarr/talk.html

And for a swashbuckling' new pirate name, see these sites:
http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate.php
http://www.io.com/~sj/PirateNames.html