May 12, 2021 Dear Jones Community, May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Explore more information and events at this site provided by the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, and other institutions. Asian Americans is a five-hour PBS film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. As America becomes more diverse, and more divided, while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate and personal lives, the five-part series casts a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played in shaping the nation’s story. Click here to stream the series. Educators, explore the lesson plans including specific film segments here. Asian American and Pacific Islander Book Titles Check out the growing number of AAPI books in the JCP Library Collection, including these: I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn This Is My Brain In Love by I. W. Gregorio This Light Between Us by Andrew Xia Fukuda THANKS TO ALL OF YOU for your valuable suggestions for genres and book titles to be purchased with the CPS Libraries Team matching grant! There are lots of new books in the library and many more will arrive in time for underclassmen to check out and enjoy over the summer. Plan on checking out books for the summer break!
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 and register for weekly alerts to notify of you when each week’s thematically paired eAudiobooks become available. School Libraries Are the Bedrocks of Freedom by Joann and Kenneth C. Davis | May 07, 2021 | Publishers Weekly Check out this brief article advocating for the use of American Rescue Plan funds to save, restore, and support public school libraries. Click here to contact your federal legislators. Media Literacy - Get Smart About News: LeBron's words twisted | Fake Saturn photo | News on TikTok Click here to subscribe to Get Smart About News published by The News Literacy Project. Click here for current and past editions. Sophomore book club member Shirly Rodas Figueroa shared this April 27, 2021, New York Times Magazine article Black Lives Are Shorter in Chicago. My Family’s History Shows Why. How did a Promised Land to generations of Black families become a community of lost lives? by Linda Villarosa. Thematic Booklist Slideshows: Latinx and LGBTQ Check out these two slideshows with descriptions of a sampling of recommended books with themes relevant to the Latinx and LGBTQ communities. Click here for the Latinx slideshow and here for the LGBTQ slideshow. Be sure to check out the much longer lists of Latinx titles and LGBTQ titles in the Jones Library collection. Explore all the thematic book lists here at the bottom of the Books Page of the JCP Library website. More thematic lists to come! 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. I am enjoying seeing more and more of you in the library each day, including the freshmen! Your spirit and resilience are inspiring! 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. Comments are closed.
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