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

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GALILEO

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

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