Another Beautiful Morning

The fresh light of a new day shines through the windows on this Friday morning. Behind me, Randy Cambou's class is busy working in the library's back room on Chromebooks. In this picture, the library is filled with students working during Period 1 before their scheduled classes start.

What are some of the assignments students are working on these days?

• For Carrin Edwards's beginning theater classes, students are searching for scripts to perform one minute monologues.
• For Michelle Liddell's 11th grade English classes, students are formulating and articulating their beliefs about barriers to the American Dream.
• For Jean Conant's photography classes, students are looking for books to create READ posters. In the library, there is a display (see below) with samples of what students have created in the past for this assignment.

As a bonus, you can see the corner of a mystery envelope in the lower right part of the picture above. What is this? One of my library regulars shared the idea of creating envelopes with clues to entice students to check out books that they may not otherwise notice. Here is the poem that appears on the fronts of the envelopes (the student helped write it, too!):

What's this?

What could it be?

A surprise book!

Can that be?

This book has a secret title...

But here are some clues:

[clues added here]

So far so good?

Check it out!

See what adventure awaits!