September Media Newsletter

Tuesday, September 3rd - SAT Prep Workshop (Advisory)

Thursday, September 5th - Fundraising Committee Meeting (After-School)

Thursday, September 12th - 1st Writing Club Meeting (After-School)

Tuesday, September 24th - Screening of the HBO film "Fahrenheit 451"& Banned Book Giveaway (All Lunches)

Thursday, September 26th - Meditation (Advisory)

September Instruction Highlight - Annotated Bibliographies

Schedule your class for a lesson & activity by emailing me

GALILEO password is "stark"

The Book Club is selling shirts to promote literacy and school spirit. You can pick yours up here: https://www.imagemarket.com/f0c347a1

If you'd like to purchase a shirt for a club member, please let me know.

If you would like to add leisure or supplemental reading for a quiz grade, homework grade or participation grade, let me know so I can add you as an ARteacher option for students in the system.

Enlighten America 2020 is an ESSAY CONTEST which focuses on the concepts of tolerance, equality, and respect for all people. It stresses civic harmony over violence and equality over prejudice. To participate, middle and high school students (grades 7-9) should reflect on the significance of the contest theme – respect for our diversity in race, religion, national origin, gender, disability and sexual orientation- by writing about the issues of bigotry and prejudice, how such issues have (or have not) been addressed in recent years, and how such issues affect our quest for peaceful coexistence among our friends and neighbors, and throughout the world.

The 2020 Enlighten America Essay Contest is a volunteer community service project brought to you by the Achim/Gate City Lodge of B’nai B’rith International. Visit http://bit.ly/EnlightenAmerica-GA to learn how to enter this contest. The winners of the 2019 Enlighten America Essay contest were announced May 9. 2019 Photo Gallery.

All entries must be received by Friday, April 10, 2020. Winners will be announced in mid-May 2020.

Download the Enlighten America 2020 flyer

The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.

Interactive piece at NYT

Full ebook pdf

If you would like to assist in the 1619 project installation in the library in February please let me know.

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent.

You can find an audiobook excerpt, lessons and more in MyBackPack at TeachingsBooks.net. Click Here . You'll have to skip the login and choose South Atlanta High School to access.

If you need a class set of "Night" for a short time, please let me know. I'm also happy to do a read-aloud and bring a cart of companion books for your classes for check-out.

Email: sxmiles@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Website: www.southatlantalibrary.blogspot.com
Phone: 4048025005
Twitter: @srmilesauthor