Welcome! It was so nice to meet you all today at Glendale. We hope you enjoyed seeing our wonderful school - especially the Library Media Center!
As promised, here is your very first high school homework assignment. Please follow the directions closely!
You started off at the Glendale Library Website. If you didn't already look around on all the pages, please go back to it and see all there is to see. You'll learn so much about our library!
Next, you visited Falcons Off the Shelf. This blog was designed with you, our Future Falcons, in mind. We want you to know this special place on the Internet is your very own. Visit it every week! Tell us what books you are reading and what you like about them. If you read a book that makes you want to write a story or a poem, send it to us. We'd love to put it on the site so that everyone can enjoy your creation. If you or your parents or teachers have ideas about other ways to use Falcons Off the Shelf, I am all ears - please tell me your thoughts!
In the meantime, I know you are very anxious to get started on your homework. So, here it is.
Directions
1. Read the Rules of the Road at the right and follow them exactly! We don't allow any students to use their last names on our Website, so please only use your first name, your grade, and your school in any comments you write here.
2. Take the poll right below Rules of the Road to tell us how excited you are to be a Glendale Falcon. Before you come back here, also take the Favorite Foods survey.
3. Read the post right below this one and make your comments. (If you don't know how to comment on a blog, the directions are on the right side of this page. Don't worry if you don't know how, I just taught two classes of freshmen how to do this last week!)
4. After you have read the post and sent in your comment, go to the top of this page and click on the link that reads "Take Me Back to Falcons Off the Shelf". From there, I'd like you to visit every page, but especially pay attention to the Events page. The top post there will contain your last task.
Happy blogging, Future Falcons!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Tell Us Your Library Story
Libraries are wonderful places! They are always new, always changing, always challenging us. There are so many stories to tell about our love of the library. Here's mine:
I've worked in three kinds of libraries: a medical library in a hospital; an elementary school library; and now Glendale's Library. My first Library love, though, was the Brentwood Library. I spent many, many hours there as a kid and I was so proud of my library card. It was a plain little card that felt like a file folder and it had a little metal plate on it with my name imprinted there. I checked out all kinds of books to read on my own, to have my mother read to me, or to read myself to my younger brother.
One day at the Brentwood, I found a book with a marvelous title: Like Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day by Nikki Giovanni. It was a book of poetry. I took it home and started reading the poems and I was hooked. I liked the words, the way they felt in my mouth when I read them out loud, the way they looked on the page. Before long, I was writing my own poetry. As an adult I got the chance to see Nikki Giovanni in person at Missouri State University when she visited to read some of her poems. It was so awesome to see her after having met her all those years ago in a book I found at the library.
Your assignment: Choose one or two of the questions below and write the answers to them in a comment on this post. Remember, all of the directions for how to post a comment are given at the right of this page. Be sure to follow them exactly!
What is your first good memory of a library?
Why do you visit the library?
What is the most important thing you've learned at the library?
How has a librarian helped you?
How has the library changed your life or your views?
What is the best program you ever attended at a library?
Has anything funny or surprising ever happened to you at the library?
Are you up for a challenge? You can write your Library Story! Send it to sfoltz@spsmail.org and watch for it to be posted on Falcons Off the Shelf for everyone to read and enjoy!
Happy Blogging, Future Falcons!
I've worked in three kinds of libraries: a medical library in a hospital; an elementary school library; and now Glendale's Library. My first Library love, though, was the Brentwood Library. I spent many, many hours there as a kid and I was so proud of my library card. It was a plain little card that felt like a file folder and it had a little metal plate on it with my name imprinted there. I checked out all kinds of books to read on my own, to have my mother read to me, or to read myself to my younger brother.
One day at the Brentwood, I found a book with a marvelous title: Like Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day by Nikki Giovanni. It was a book of poetry. I took it home and started reading the poems and I was hooked. I liked the words, the way they felt in my mouth when I read them out loud, the way they looked on the page. Before long, I was writing my own poetry. As an adult I got the chance to see Nikki Giovanni in person at Missouri State University when she visited to read some of her poems. It was so awesome to see her after having met her all those years ago in a book I found at the library.
Your assignment: Choose one or two of the questions below and write the answers to them in a comment on this post. Remember, all of the directions for how to post a comment are given at the right of this page. Be sure to follow them exactly!
What is your first good memory of a library?
Why do you visit the library?
What is the most important thing you've learned at the library?
How has a librarian helped you?
How has the library changed your life or your views?
What is the best program you ever attended at a library?
Has anything funny or surprising ever happened to you at the library?
Are you up for a challenge? You can write your Library Story! Send it to sfoltz@spsmail.org and watch for it to be posted on Falcons Off the Shelf for everyone to read and enjoy!
Happy Blogging, Future Falcons!
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