Rachael M. Ali Library

November 2019

Turnitin Videos and Information

The training videos for Turnitin have been posted to the library topics page. The videos are posted as a link on the left-hand side of the page or tap the blue link for videos. There are two videos for students, as well.

For shorter assignments where formatting is not an issue, an option would be to have students cut and paste their assignments into the text box. The library lab computers or the two computers in the library are available to use for posting assignments.

Destiny Discover

Destiny Discover is the public view of the online catalog. Use the link provided on the library tile to access the Destiny Discover.

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New books

New books can be found in the first row of Destiny Discover.

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Collections

Collections are found across the bottom of the library page. This is a place to make a set of books and resources for specific classes. If you are a nonfiction reader, check out the nonfiction collection.

November's Databases are all about Current Events

SIRS Researcher is found on UDLIB search. SIRS Issues Researcher provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources.

Opposing Viewpoints is found on both UDLIB search and the Gale Databases. Opposing viewpoints is continuously updated with information and opinions that cover current issues.

Both databases cover current issues and have a browse topics feature. Both databases provide questions/guided reading options for some topics. Articles can be resized, translated, listened to, saved to google or one drive, and Lexile levels are available.

If you would like to know more about the teacher resources, feel free to come and see me.

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Did you know that 1 in 5 kids have dyslexia?

Dyslexia is not just mixing up letters.

Dyslexia is a neurological condition that affects the way that the brain processes information.

Reading can be a challenge for students with Dyslexia.

How can we support our students? Some of these ideas are good ideas for all students.

1. Support various formats of texts.

2. Audiobooks activate the same areas in the brain as traditional reading. We currently only have one digital audiobook. However, the public library has an incredible collection. See me for help setting up your account. Many of the articles in the databases have a listen feature.

3. Comics/Graphic Novels the shorter, more concise text and the font style used by many comics are more accessible for students to read.

4. Large print books and colored backgrounds make reading easier.

5. Sans Serif fonts are a better choice.

If you would like more information, check out this link for Teen Librarian Toolbox. Check out the excellent guest post by Lauren. The information presented here is from an infographic presented by Teem Librarian Toolbox.

http://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2019/10/dyslexia-awareness-dashboard-all-our-dyslexia-posts-and-references-in-one-place/

Recommendations

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Graphic Novel Biography

In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.

They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.

What is American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime.

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Serious Biography with a Little Humor

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

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A Little Spooky

Ever since her mother’s death, Gabriella “Gutsy” Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar. But when her mother’s undead body is returned to her doorstep from the grave and Gutsy witnesses a pack of ravagers digging up Los Muertos—her mother’s name for the undead—she realizes that life finds you no matter how hard you try to hide from it.

Meanwhile, Benny Imura and his gang set out on a journey to finish what Captain Joe Ledger started: they’re going to find a cure. After what they went through in the Rot and Ruin, they think they’ve seen it all, but as they venture into new and unexplored territory, they soon learn that the zombies they fought before were nothing compared to what they’ll face in the wild beyond the peace and safety of their fortified town.

All book descriptions are from Goodreads.

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