Hi everyone,
We had a great meeting yesterday. Thanks to all who joined us!
Please post any comments, questions, ideas about Deb Caletti’s May 15 visit HERE by clicking on “No comments” below (it will say this until someone posts a comment and I approve it).
Thanks guys!
Ms. Akers
Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Kate Akers
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Hi all,Book Club will be meeting tomorrow during lunch in the conference room. This month’s selection is The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti. It’s the story of a girl, a boy, a baby, and some elephants. :) I hope you can all make it! Bring your lunch. Ms. Akers
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Kate Akers
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Today is the first meeting of the all-new Author Visit Committee! Please bring your lunch and meet us in the HS Conference Room at 12:20 to help plan Deb Caletti’s May 15 visit and Kathie Bergquist’s April 23 visit (sponsored by the QSA). Join this committee! If you do, you’ll have great opportunities to help run libary events and thus be part of the “behind-the-scenes” action, to voice your opinion about who we might invite to come speak in the future, and — best of all — to meet authors in person and introduce them at visits. I hope to see many of you there!Ms. Akers
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Kate Akers
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Today is the first meeting of the all-new Author Visit Committee! Please bring your lunch and meet us in the HS Conference Room at 12:20 to help plan Deb Caletti’s May 15 visit and Kathie Bergquist’s April 23 visit (sponsored by the QSA). Join this committee! If you do, you’ll have great opportunities to help run libary events and thus be part of the “behind-the-scenes” action, to voice your opinion about who we might invite to come speak in the future, and — best of all — to meet authors in person and introduce them at visits. I hope to see many of you there!Ms. Akers
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Kate Akers
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Dear Book Club,
First, thank you to all who attended last week’s invigorating discussion of The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury! We had a great time and a huge turnout.
Second, Book Club will meet next Tuesday, December 11, again at 12:20 in Feitler. Let’s all take a break from the crunch of test week to relax, have lunch, and talk about books in the library. Since we’ve such a short month because of the break, the selection is UP TO YOU. Please bring with you (if you have it) The Best Book or Story You’ve Read in the Past Month.
This can be anything — fiction, nonfiction, a short story, a biography or memoir, a book you were assigned that you ended up really enjoying. Just bring something that you would like for other people to know about. We’ll all build up our holiday break reading lists!
In the event you’ve not read anything in the past month, then here are some suggestions from fellow Book Clubbers:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Equus: a play by Peter Shaffer
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I’m looking forward to seeing all of you at Book Club next week!
Ms. Akers
Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Kate Akers
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Dear Book Club,
The next book club meeting will be Tuesday, November 27 at 12:20. We will be meeting in the high school’s Feitler Lab. Our selection this month is The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Please see me if you need a copy — the library will soon have some extras on hand! I hope you can all make it!
Ms. Akers
Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Kate Akers
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Hi all,
This month’s book club selection is Tithe by Holly Black. Please meet us next Thursday, October 25, at 1:00 (second half of double lunch). We will meet in the Middle School Classroom. There will be snacks!
Tithe is a faerie tale…but these are no ordinary faeries. No glittery-winged, sparkle-emitting Tinkerbell types. Kaye, a 16-year old girl who has been living a gritty life with her rock-and-roll mom, moves back into her childhood home. She wasn’t quite sure if the faeries she remembers as her childhood friends were figments of her imagination, until she saves a silver-haired, long-fingered creature in the woods on her way home from a party one night. From this point on, Kaye is sucked back into the tumultuous (and bewitching) world of the faeries. This story is full of adventure, drama, and even some romance.
I hope to see you all at Book Club next Thursday!
Ms. Akers
Posted on October 16th, 2007 by Kate Akers
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The High School Book Club will be meeting for the first time this year on Thursday, October 25 at 1:00 in the Middle School Classroom.The book selection is TBA, so stay posted. If you have a recommendation, please tell me about it! You can post here, email me at makers@ucls.uchicago.edu, or best yet, let me know in person the next time you’re in the library.If you have never been to Book Club before, it’s lots of fun– please come and try it out! It’s all about great conversations about books, time with friends, and snacks. (We get good snacks, just ask last year’s Book Club.:) To all the loyal Book Clubbers from last year — welcome back!Ms. Akers
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Kate Akers
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We hope you had a great summer and can’t wait to hear about your adventures.
It’s a new school year and that means fresh starts, new books and traditions upheld.
The library’s catalog has a new look and upgraded features. So let us know if you have any questions. There are 8 sleek new iMacs for a total of 11 workstations available to students. And of course, check the display shelves for new books.
U-High continues the tradition of having all students and faculty read the same book over the summer. The First Day Committee’s choice, a Pulitzer Prize winning book of short stories, “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri, will be the focus of the First Day assembly and follow-up discussions. Make sure to check out the Bollywood movies playing in Judd 126, too.
We hope you enjoy catching up with old friends, seeing new faces, meeting in your classes and participating in all the activities.
See you in the library! Mrs. Volk
Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Shirley Volk
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