April 20, 2018 Dear Jones Students, Thank you for your patience, cooperation, and understanding when the library was closed due to testing. It was much appreciated. Congratulations on completing this round of SAT and PSAT testing! Yes! More new books! I received a great shipment of NEW BOOKS last week. Click HERE to access the list of those titles. There are numerous science fiction titles including several science fiction story collections. Click HERE to explore new books that arrived in the winter. Click HERE for new works of fiction that arrived in the fall, and click HERE for new works of nonfiction that arrived in the fall. Library Sign-In and Student ID’s / Scanning Discontinued For various reasons students will resume SIGNING IN to the library instead of scanning. Students will be scanned into the library only during ac lab periods. Related to that, students must have their student ID’s with them to enter the library during ac lab periods. Regular ID’s and temporary ID’s are both acceptable. As a reminder, if you are coming to the library with your class and a teacher you don’t have to sign in at all! This info is also posted on the library website home page. Heathers: The Musical JCP’s Latest Smash Friday at 7 PM, Saturday at 2 PM and 7 PM Do whatever you must to get a ticket for the remaining performances of Heathers! Check out the preview video HERE. Warm congratulations to the cast and crew of this bold and unforgettable production! Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire Schurz High School 3601 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago Sat May 5, 2018, 10am - 4pm Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire is the first Maker Faire in the Chicagoland area. Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these "makers" to show hobbies, experiments, projects. Attend Maker Faire to learn more about MakerSpaces and to enjoy the showcase of of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness. Night of Noise Celebration/Open Mic and Dance Party, April 27, 6:00-8:00 PM, Alice Rapoport Center for Education at the Goodman Theater, 170 N Dearborn Street. Free event! Any middle school or high school student willing to be respectful of the space is totally welcome, and the event is geared toward those who feel like their identities are silenced in schools. This means LGBTQ+ people, but this year the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance is expanding the focus of the Day of Silence and Night of Noise to include anyone who feels their identities have been stifled in schools. Full flyer HERE. Click the RSVP form to register and to sign up to speak during the open mic portion of the event if you want. Looking for a Job?? Get help! Get prepared to find a job or plan ahead for post-college success with personalized assistance from professional recruiters. Workshops will include resume building,application assistance, and mock interviews. Open to teen high school students. For further information click HERE and HERE. Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Youth Design Competition Attention artists, designers, engineers, photographers, and architects! The 2018 Newhouse Architecture + Design Competition is partnered with firms, non-profits and studios that are all currently working on Chicago-focused issues.The Newhouse Competition invites students to solve one of seven challenges in graphic design, model making, photography and fine arts. Winners receive trophies, certificates, cash prizes and more including opportunities for paid summer internships. For more information, visit the Newhouse Competition webpage. Access the Student Competition 2018 Manual. Have a great weekend! Mr. Feeley April 6, 2018 Dear Jones Students, Library Closed for Testing The library will be closed during regular class hours on April 10 & 11 due to SAT testing and makeup testing and on April 17 & 18 due to PSAT testing and makeup testing. The library will be open before and after school on those days. Please plan accordingly. Chicago Young Adult Book Festival, Saturday, April 14 Hamilton Elementary School, 1650 W Cornelia Ave. Chicago IL 60657 The Chicago Young Adult Book Festival is an inclusive literary event that embraces and promotes the diversity of its urban environment; its goal is to engage, enlighten and inspire young readers and the authors who write for them. GET THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR! Chicago YA Book Festival Flyer YA Book Festival Website 34th Chicago Latino Film Festival The Chicago Latino Film Festival is running April 5-19. All screenings are at AMC RIVER EAST 21 THEATRES at 322 E. Illinois St. Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, at Chicago Humanities Festival April 29 In her stunning debut The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas has given us a novel inspired by the horror of police shootings of black youth and the hope of Black Lives Matter movement. Sunday, April 29, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Fine Arts Building, Studebaker Theater, 410 S Michigan Ave. Students and Teachers: $10 Info/Tickets HERE. Members: $15 Public: $20 The Hate U Give Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2018 Michael L. Printz Honor, 2018 William C. Morris YA Debut Award, 2018 57 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List Film in production Book Checkout Renewal Click HERE to explore options for renewing your books if needed. Renewal will postpone your due dates for three more weeks. You can renew online ONLY BEFORE the original due date. Once a book becomes “overdue” you can reach out to me to request a renewal at [email protected] Autism Awareness Month The IES department honors National Autism Awareness Month in April. The Jones community is encouraged to honor this observance by wearing the Autism Awareness Month t-shirts OR by wearing blue every Thursday in April. Field Trip to Spain Nineteen students and four teacher chaperones enjoyed a magnificent 11-day field trip to Spain in March. Students enjoyed tours of wonders including the Plaza de España in Seville, the Alhambra in Granada, and the Prado Museum in Madrid. They also witnessed the centuries-old tradition of Holy Week processionals featuring marching bands and elaborate, extremely heavy processional floats which are physically carried on the shoulders of the costaleros through the narrow, winding streets. The Jones travelers ate like kings and burned it all off by walking approximately 64 miles in 11 days. They also met and interacted with art students in Úbeda as well as lots of relatives and friends of Jones Spanish teacher and Granada native Mr. Marcos González Díaz. Field Trip to Morocco Jones students spent ten days traveling around Morocco. The journey included two days of community service in a rural village where they helped build the courtyard of a school. The students and chaperones also met locals, drank tea, haggled in the markets, and trekked into the Sahara Desert on camel where they sandboarded and slept under the stars! Field Trip to India In a cross country trip from the chaotic and bustling city of Delhi all the way to the peaceful town of McLeodganj in the lap of the snow-capped Himalayas, 15 Jones juniors and seniors and three social science teachers traveled on trains, planes, cars, and even pedal-powered rickshaws through northern India. The group toured both modern and older Hindu temples in Agra, Delhi, and Haridwar, as well as the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the capital of the Sikh faith, and a Buddhist nunnery in McLeodganj, all while navigating the "video game-like" streets. In Delhi, all Jones travelers were marked with Bindis, symbols worn by many Hindus to mark the physical and spiritual center point, by a local clergywoman in a temple. In McLeodganj the group sat in on a sunrise prayer session in a Buddhist nunnery in the foothills of the Himalayas. In addition, the group learned to play cricket and how to prepare and cook traditional Indian dishes. Field Trip to Iceland JCP visited Iceland this past spring break with 34 students and six chaperones. As a science-based trip the experience was focused on geology and the use of geothermal power. Over the five days travelers visited geothermal areas with geysers, visited hydroponic farms, cooked eggs and bread using heat directly from the ground, met the Icelandic horse which has evolved uniquely from other domestic horses, walked through dormant craters from volcanoes, explored lava tubes with ice stalagmites, got soaked by gorgeous waterfalls, and got their boots wet in the Northern Atlantic at black sand beach. They also visited Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, to learn more about the history and culture of the country. Iceland is truly the land of fire and ice, as the land’s surface is cold and glacial and underneath is the volcanic hotspot that formed the island. Have a great weekend! Mr. Feeley |
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