Free Cocoa for Minutes

Be sure to continue to log your minutes in Beanstack during the Holiday Break. Top loggers will earn free cocoa when we return in January.

All forms of literature count - novels, newspapers, magazines! Each day after reading, log the number of minutes that you have read in Beanstack. Teachers and students can access Beanstacks/Race2Read thru MyBackPack.

*Teachers Log into Beanstacks with their email and the password is beanstackreads.

*Students log in with their network id and the password is race2read.

*Parents create an account @ https://race2read.beanstack.org/reader365

The direct link to Beanstacks for teachers and students is below:
https://apssouthatlanta.beanstack.org/reader365

Join the Parent Teacher Book Club

Join the Parent Teacher Book Club as we read AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE next month. See the Parent Liaison for copies while supplies last or buy your copy and support the library.

 Book Fair code at check-out. Code: 12573788  http://barnesandnoble.com 

Race 2 Read Kickoff

Dia De Los Muertos Reading Challenge

Dia De Los Muertos Reading Challenge

Begins: October 16^th  Ends: November 1^st

Check out a Book in the Latinx Interest Section and Track Your Reading on the Beanstack App. Once you’ve logged 250 minutes you’re entered into a raffle to win lunch for two from Chipotle.

Username: networkID (jdoe1234)

Password: race2read

https://apssouthatlanta.beanstack.org/reader365

October Newsletter

Pastries for Persuasion

Coffee & Tea

SAT Study

Apps

Daily Practice for the New SAT

Ready4 SAT

Documents
Folder with Study Plans


Websites with Prep and Full Courses
Teaching and Education Reference Center at AFPLS
Khan Academy SAT Prep
Learning Express Library

The Year in Numbers

September Newsletter

Summer Reading

Rising 9^th

Choose One

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

Rising 10^th

Choose One

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

1984 by George Orwell

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Rising 11^th

AP: Choose Two

Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Summer Poetry Collective at VOX

Summer Poetry Collective
We are looking for up to 10 teens to participate in our Atlanta Word Works summer poetry collective. The collective is for spoken word artists seeking to further develop their poetry, performance, and facilitation skills with near peer teaching artists. The collective is a summer long commitment, meeting 2-3 times a week in the afternoon. Poets will have the opportunity to publish their work, grow their performance and writing skills with a group of their peers, facilitate community events, and the program will conclude with a summer end group poetry performance. Application is available online here! Any questions? Feel free to email josie@voxatl.org for more information.  

Mom to Mom Literacy Brunch

Girl Power, Period

Sexual Assault Awareness Month (Discussions)

April is National Poetry Month

Join the Writing Club on Thursdays in April as we create Blackout Poems for the NYTimes Poetry Contest. Find out more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/learning/our-10th-annual-spring-poetry-contest-for-teenagers-make-a-new-york-times-blackout-poem.html

Read Across South Atlanta Week

Podcasting at South Atlanta

Ms. Foster's Class has completed a podcast series titled "Public Wealth", about health issues in the community. Head over to Soundcloud to give it a listen and if you're interested in starting your own, see Ms. Miles. We've got microphones and all the software you need in the library.

BibMe and Citations

If you're wondering how to get that bibliograph made then you need to head over to Bibme.org. I created a short tutorial for you here:

Blackface in America

Paraphrasing: How to Avoid Plagiarism

Teaching Paraphrasing to students from Kevin Cummins

We're highlighting paraphrasing. In order to avoid the pitfalls of copy and paste you'll need to learn how to put things in your own words. Check out this slideshow!

Booktube

Your librarian is a booktuber. It's Black History Month so check out my latest vid and then come check out those books.

Here are a few other booktubers to follow.

Black History Month

February Book Club Selection

Read with us! We'll have our meeting on February 27th and discuss with cupcakes and hot chocolate.

Eighteen-year-old Ptolemy Freeman is a mechanical genius living in Boston with his ne'er do well brother during the worst winter he's ever experienced. It's an unforgiving place but to a freed slave it seems like an Eden of opportunity. It's also a far cry from the South Carolina rice plantation he'd been born on. But even with everything he's ever wanted just within his reach he can't stop thinking of the girl he left behind.

Seventeen-year-old Sarah Morning has never met anyone whose skin she didn't get under. She's turned keeping people at a distance into an art and even though she can recite Homer's Iliad in English, Greek and French she's still a slave, and skin as pale as the women she serves won't change that. So she works quietly, serves diligently, and tries every day to turn her aching heart to stone. But when her mistress receives a mysterious letter from the boy she can't seem to forget, everything changes and she starts to do the most dangerous thing she's ever done...hope.

Follow Ptolemy and Sarah through secret letters, a heist, and two jailbreaks as they battle slave catchers, their own families and each other in order to be together again.

Join Vox's Teen Staff

Join VOX's Teen Staff
Teens ages 13-19 in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties are invited to join our teen staff here. The deadline to apply is this Thursday, January 10. Our next New Member Training will be this Saturday, January 12 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. here at VOX. You can share this flyer about joining VOX with your teens.

Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate
VOX is accepting submissions from young poets, rappers, leaders and activists ages 13-19 from across the metro Atlanta area (Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett) who are interested in representing Atlanta as the 2019 Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate. This program aims to identify young writers and leaders who are committed to civic and community engagement, poetry and performance, human relations, diversity, social justice and education. For more details and to apply, teens can visit bit.ly/atlypl19. The deadline for applications is January 19. Check out this flyer for more information about the program.

Yoga Check-Out, Free SAT Prep & GALILEO passwords

http://afpls.org/ecampus

GALILEO

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satl: Atlanta Public Schools

Old password : teenage

New password : cooking

WILL BE changed: 01/08/2019

This password will be valid until 05/22/2019.

Remember, passwords must be entered in all lowercase characters.