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Thank you Smyrna Bowling Center, Teresa Bowling, Lisa Reid, Martha Tucker, and Mr. & Mrs. Nored for your generous donations to the Media Center.

New Books:

The power of six
Eviction notice
Bronxwood
Kelly Hoppen interiors
On the come up
Top 100 health-care
careers
The unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Vampire Diaries Vol. 1, 2, 3 & 4
Allure of the game
Black gangsters of Chicago
But I love him
Cirque du freak: Tunnels of blood
Cirque du freak: Vampires assistant
Crescendo
Crossed
Desert angel
Dissecting the ACT
Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Drama High: 2nd chance
Drama High: Lady J
Drama High: Frenemies
Eon
Eona
Drift notice
Fallen
The fast the fraudulent and the fatal side of street racing and drifting
Fire
Fire from the rock
Forged by fire
The future of us
Graceling
Countries of the world
Hip Hop world

Newsletters

Links

News
The Tennessean
The Daily News Journal
USA Today
New York Times
CNN
CBS
MSNBC
ABC

Resources
Bartleby
Brittanica Online
College Board
Gateway/EOC Prep
NoodleTools (Search Engines)
Open Clip Art Library
Poetry
Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA)
Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) (Journals, newspapers, books, etc.)
Webster's Dictionary

Bobbie J. Palmer
Media Specialist
(615) 890-6004
palmerb@rcs.k12.tn.us

The Holloway High Media Center is open Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Mission Statement

The Holloway High Media Center will support and enhance the curriculum standards, and create a community of students who are information literate, lifelong learners, and avid readers.

Policies: Students:

• Students may check out two books at a time.
• Books are loaned for a two-week period with one renewal available.
• Students may visit the media center any time during regular hours, but must have a note or pass from their teacher during class time.
• No drinks or food are allowed in the media center.
• Computer usage is limited to scheduled assignments -- no games, personal e-mails, chat rooms, social networking, etc.
• Fines for overdue materials are 10 cents per school day.
• If materials are lost or damaged, you will be charged the price of replacing or repairing the materials.
• You must pay fines before reports cards will issued to you or before graduation.

Teachers:

• Please schedule class time as early as possible.Students must have a signed agenda or pass from teacher to visit media center during class time.
• Turn in books, videos and other media by the first of May for inventory.

Recommended Reads:

Graceling
Written by Kristin Cashore, 2008

The power of Six
Written by Pittacus Lore

The unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Written by Michelle Hodkin

Hunger games trilogy
Suzanne Collins

Resources

Academic Vocabulary
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/index.html

Bibme.com
The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It is free and an easy way to build a works cited page. Bibme can be used to store all your works cited information for current and future reference.

iCyte
Is a tool to organize links and research. Information on a web site can be highlighted and saved. The links can be made public, and can be accessed from any computer.

Librarians Internet Resouces
http://lii.org/

Literacy Matters
http://www.literacymatters.org/content/readandwrite/vocab.htm#general

Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)
http://tntel.tnsos.org/
The TEL is a viritual library with over 40 databases and over 400,000 articles. It provides full-text access for the four metropolitan Tennessee newspapers -- Chattanooga Times-Free Press, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Knoxville News-Sentinel, and The Tennessean (Nashville). This database can be accessed through the following link: newspapershttp://infoweb.newsbank.com.

The Ayn Rand Institute
The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism
Ayn Rand is a novelist and philosopher who wrote The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. This website contains educational opportunities and teaching resources.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer

Teaching Reading Through Poetry
http://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/readingpoetry.html