April 29, 2021 Dear Jones Community, LIBRARY GRANTS Jones Library Matching Grant! The JCP Library has earned a substantial matching grant from the CPS Libraries Team, and I need lots of input from you to purchase BOOKS THAT YOU WANT! Students and staff, PLEASE complete this brief form to provide me recommendations of titles and genres. Your input will be taken into serious consideration! It’s Really Raining Books Again at 700 South State Street! Here are a few easy paths to identifying great print and electronic books!
ATTN: SENIORS Seniors must return or pay for all library books prior to graduation. Check your account and take action today!
A lot of you have books checked out from before the pandemic. Either you have finished them or they just aren’t lighting you up. Consider returning them and selecting the beautiful new titles in the library. CPS Libraries Team Grant! American Library Association Young Media Awards The Chicago Public Schools Libraries Team bestowed a grant to the JCP Library consisting of eBook licenses for almost all of the 2021 American Library Association Young Media Awards. Please explore and enjoy these wonderful titles! UPDATES!
THIS PROGRAM STARTS TODAY! Take action immediately in time to download this week’s TWO FREE eAudiobooks! Get TWENTY-EIGHT FREE eAudiobooks To Keep Forever! JUMP ON THIS! SYNC is a free spring/summer audiobook program for teens 13+ running fourteen weeks from April 29 until August 5, 2021. Check out the SYNC website to sign up. ChiTeen Lit Fest 2021 at the Chicago Public Library May 16-22, 2021 The sixth annual for-teens-by-teens ChiTeen Lit Fest takes place May 16-22, 2021. The fest is fully virtual and lasts all week! ChiTeen Lit Fest provides a safe and creative space for students to unlock and discover their unique voice through literary arts. The festival features special guests Ric Johnson and Kara Jackson! Website here. Explore and register for individual sessions here. Further info from Chicago Public Library including SWAG BAG pickup here. 38th Annual Zena Sutherland Lecture presented by Jason Reynolds, the Library of Congress’ National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Friday, May 7, 2021 7:30PM – 9:00PM Attend the 2021 annual Zutherland Lecture presented by Jason Reynolds and co-sponsored by the Chicago Public Library, the Sutherland Lecture Committee and the University of Chicago. Learn more about this online event and register here. Learn more about Jason Reynolds’ life and work here and here. Access and read many of his works in various formats here. Media Literacy - Get Smart About News: '2021 press freedoms ranking | Vaccine misinfo | Teen watchdog praised Click here to subscribe to Get Smart About News published by The News Literacy Project. Click here for current and past editions. Media Literacy - A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. Logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. Don't be fooled! Check out this website to prepare yourself to identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent head. Media Literacy - Stanford History Education Group - Lateral Reading is BETTER than the CRAPP Test This brief video asserts that many digital natives lack the skills to evaluate online content for reliability. The video along with this second video demonstrate strategies used by professional fact-checkers and other savvy thinkers to judge the credibility of information provided by unfamiliar sources and to look beyond just one website to a wider range of sources. Online Bystander Intervention Training with Advancing Justice, Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 6:00PM – 7:00PM In response to the sharp and sustained rise in anti-Asian harassment, Advancing Justice Chicago is partnering with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Chicago and Hollaback! to offer local interactive online bystander intervention training to help people identify hate incidents as they happen and take action safely and effectively. Click here for more info and to register. Earth Day Was Celebrated on April 22 Click here to learn about the history of Earth Day since its inception in 1970. Click here to access books about the environment in various formats. It’s been wonderful seeing many of you back in the building! I hope that both in-person and remote students are adjusting to hybrid learning and feeling more and more connected. Mr. Feeley School Librarian [email protected] jcplibrary.weebly.com My recent reads Read current and past library newsletters on the Keeping Up With the Jones Library blog. April 14, 2020 Dear Jones Community,
National Library Week, April 4-10, 2021, sponsored by the American Library Association, is a time to celebrate our nation's libraries. Whether in person or virtually, libraries offer endless opportunities to transform lives through education and lifelong learning. IT’S RAINING BOOKS! LET’S CELEBRATE National Library Week by enjoying the huge array of online eBooks and eAudiobooks provided by JCP and CPS. Three great starting points: 1. This spreadsheet of almost 200 eBooks and Audiobooks with easy links including almost all the 2021 American Library Association Youth Award Winners. Click to explore ONLY the 2021 ALA Youth Award Winners. 2. The Jones OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) search by title, author, or any search term(s) to access JCP print and electronic books and CPS High School electronic books; 3. Lots of eBook/eAudiobook support at the top of the Books Page of the JCP Library website. Library Grants: Your Chance to Help Build the Library Collection! The JCP Library will likely be approved for a CPS Libraries Team Matching Grant, which means we will acquire substantially more print books, eBooks, and eAudiobooks! Students and staff, PLEASE complete this brief form to provide me recommendations of titles and genres. Your input will be taken into serious consideration! The JCP School Library already earned a grant from the CPS Libraries Team for the purchase of eBook licenses for nearly all the 2021 ALA Youth Media Awards! Get TWENTY-EIGHT FREE eAudiobooks To Keep Forever! JUMP ON THIS! SYNC is a free spring/summer audiobook program for teens 13+ running fourteen weeks from April 29 until August 5, 2021. Check out the SYNC website to register using your CPS email, to download the SORA reading app, to sign up for weekly new title alerts, and to learn about the 28 titles (fourteen thematically paired books) that will be provided over 14 weeks. Be sure to check out the FAQ’s and the full list of titles in this year’s SYNC season. This. Opportunity. Is. GOLD! National Poetry Month Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month reminds the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. Click here for great ways to celebrate poetry. “Poetry is not only a dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” - Audre Lorde Poetry is meant to be spoken and heard. Click to savor this poem recitation by YOURS TRULY that celebrates both National Poetry Month and National Library Week. Don’t Go Into the Library by Alberto Ríos 1952- Check here to hear former Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ advice about reading a poem aloud Here are a few books of poetry available in electronic format through JCP and CPS: Apple: (Skin to the Core): A Memoir in Words and Pictures by Eric Gansworth The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall (Eds.) Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems by Margarita Engle Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing Finna: Poems by Nate Marshall (poetry, hip hop) Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss Kent State by Deborah Wiles Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish by Juan Felipe Herrera Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Novel in verse) ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets by Melissa Castillo-Garsow (Ed.) Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes (Novel in verse, memoir) A People’s History of Chicago by Kevin Coval The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Novel in verse) Punching the Air by Ibi Aanu Zoboi The (other) F word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce by Angie Manfredi (Ed.) The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne Picture Books: Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzannne Slade; illustrated by Xia Gordon Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome eBook with eAudiobook narration Virtual Poetry Month programming provided by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. National Poetry Month 2021: Amanda Gorman and 7 Other Black Poets You Should Know by Hannah Eko Urge President Biden and Congress to support library infrastructure. More info here. Take action here. Day of Silence The GLSEN Day of Silence on Friday, April 23, 2021, is a national student-led demonstration where LGBTQ students and allies all around the country—and the world—take a vow of silence to protest the harmful effects of harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ people in schools. Students go through the school day without speaking, ending the day with Breaking the Silence rallies and events to share their experiences. Register for GLSEN’s event here. This custom is also honored and supported by the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance. Learn more about this event and their other annual events here. Two AMAZING PBS Independent Lens documentaries currently streaming for a limited time! I Am Not Your Negro draws upon James Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Marth Luther King, Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to examine race in America. (87 minutes / streams only through May 8, 2021) Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life. Concepts include racial and gender bias, STEM, women and POC’s in STEM, artificial intelligence, algorithmic determinism, facial recognition, scoring systems, surveillance, authoritarianism, capitalism, China, and Big Brother. (86 minutes / streams only through April 21, 2021). Media Literacy Get Smart About News: '60 Minutes' controversy | Coca-Cola ban? | Biden press question. Click here to subscribe to Get Smart About News published by The News Literacy Project. Click here for current and past editions. The Jones Community Service Club is hosting a Trivia Fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association. Click to access the informational flyer. Register here. Reach out to Bella Kozy [email protected] for further information. National Honor Society ATTN: Rising Juniors and Rising Seniors National Honor Society Membership is open each fall to Jones juniors and seniors who meet the requirements. Explore the Jones NHS Fact Sheet to learn everything you need to know about eligibility requirements and much more. The CPS Student Advisory Council (SAC) -Twenty high school students representing various areas of the city - shapes district policy and decisions by collaborating with Dr. Jackson and other district leadership, conducting deep investigation, and elevating youth perspective. The experience includes a paid summer internship with Mikva Challenger. More info here. Applications are due April 23. The CPS Student Voice and Activism Fellowship (SVAF) informs, shapes, and strengthens the district's commitment to inclusive partnerships with students. The program is a paid, year-long program that begins in early July. Application deadline is Friday, April 23. View the one pager here and apply here! More info here. Applications are due April 23. An Honorary Student Board Member (HSB) is selected annually to represent the CPS student body on the Chicago Board of Education. The HSB attends the Chicago Board of Education’s monthly meetings and collaborates with both the Student Advisory Council and the Student Voice and Activism Fellowship. Interested rising Juniors and Seniors must submit this application before 5:00 pm on April 30. ¡Viva la Libertad! Latin America and the Age of Revolutions April 2-July 24, 2021 Newberry Library Register for the Live Virtual Tour in Spanish, Monday, April 19, 4:00-4:30 PM. As revolutions broke out in the United States, France, and Haiti, freedom movements took root in Latin America, where the colonies of Spain and Portugal fought for their own independence. ¡Viva la Libertad! is being coordinated by the Newberry in partnership with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the National Museum of Mexican Art, Illinois Humanities, and Instituto Justice and Leadership Academy. COUNTDOWN TO RACE MONTH! MAY 2021
Be a part of WBEZ Chicago’s inaugural WBEZ 91.5K! This virtual 5K gives Chicago area residents an opportunity to get active and learn more about the communities that make up our great region during a month-long virtual 5K. Experience Chicago’s dynamic neighborhoods as you choose your own adventure and create a route inspired by a Curious City story. Learn more and register here. I greatly look forward to seeing many of you soon. Be safe and take care of yourselves and each other! Mr. Feeley School Librarian [email protected] jcplibrary.weebly.com My recent reads Read current and past library newsletters on the Keeping Up With the Jones Library blog. |
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