CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.2+N.10

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!
 * NOVEMBER 22, 2011 **
 * THERE WILL BE NO NEWSLETTER ON NOVEMBER 29TH **
 * RONDA'S CORNER [[image:librarymindsactii/turkey.jpg width="55" height="65" align="left"]] **

I was inspired at the Book Whisperer workshop last week. I've decided that since I don't have students, you will have the privilage of being my substitute. I have an **Island of Misfit Books.** Our Professional Library has several sets of lonely books that would just like to be read by someone. They haven't had much time off the shelf. You can help by getting the word to your teachers about these books so maybe a wish can come true for at least some of these books.

//The Color of Water// by James McBride
Interest Level: YA Accelerated Reader: ATOS RL: 6.1 Point Value: 11 IL: UG Reading Counts: RL: 11 Point Value:19 Lexile Measure: 1240

Non-Fiction James McBride gives us a wonderful memoir of himself and his mother, a Polish immigrant and Orthodox Jew, a daughter of a tyrannical rabbi father and timid, crippled mother, who dared to ask for something more of this life. Yet in doing so, Ruth McBride Jordan, nee Rachel Shilsky crossed what was once, and for some still is, an uncrossable barrier: she married not one, but two, black men, converting to Christianity along the way. She lost her Jewish family and isolated herself from both whites and, to a lesser extent, blacks, but raised 12 children who all became college-educated professionals. This is not a portrait of a saint, either mother or son. But both can forgive the other, something that Ruth's Jewish family cannot do. (That, by the way, should not be seen as representative of all Jews; indeed, the epilogue shows a moving scene in which James McBride gets in touch with his Jewish side in a very positive way. Many Jewish people are caring and understanding and not at all prejudice against blacks. Ruth's family wasn't among them.) Anyway, that these are not saints make the people more human, more believeable, more loveable, and by reading it, maybe we would become more accepting of families that don't look like our own.


 * MARY ANN'S MEANDERING **


 * [[file:ConduitNov11.pdf]]TEACHING BOOKS' NEWSLETTER **

**PLAGIARISM**

"You've have done the talk, and hope it caught on. You also know that students gravitate to online videos. Here's a great vid to help with your talk about plagiarism! And if you've never seen a Common Craft video, you'll be pleasantly surprised : )" Naomi Bates Northwest High School Library, Justin TX

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 * OTHER PLAGIARISM VIDEOS -SOME OF WHICH I HAVE SHOWN BEFORE **

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