CHS Media Center Newsletter
March 2023
This newsletter highlights a selection of our services, programming, and resources. In this issue:
- Celebrate this month's events with our resource collections: Women's History Month, Irish American Heritage Month, Deaf History Month, March Madness, National Craft Month, Optimism Month, National Nutrition Month, Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month
- Two Truths & a Lie: Women's History Contest: Enter for chance to win a prize!
- "Irish I had more time to read:" Peep our New Books!
- Join the Project Lit Book Club: The Henna Wars by Diba Jaigirdar
- Check out our Research Support Guide
There is so much to celebrate in March! Click on a tile below to check out our new March resource collections:
March Contest to Win a Prize! 2 Truths & a Lie: Women's History
Follow the sources for each question to help you select the answers and to find out more about the incredible women featured in this contest. All sources are from our Biography in Context Database. You can find login information for this database HERE (you must be signed into your MCPS Google account to access this document).
Entries with the most correct answers win. Random drawing breaks a tie. Two winners will be selected this month!
Click HERE to enter the contest. All entries must be submitted by March 29.
Congrats to our February Trivia Winners (pictured below with their prizes!):
Eric Zhang (10th grader) & Katianna Vallejo (11th grader)
New Books in the CHS Media Center!
Click HERE to see ALL the new books recently added to our collection. A small selection of new books are featured below.
Join us for our next book in the Project Lit Book Club: The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
Summary of The Henna Wars:
"When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls with rival henna businesses.
When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants—as long as she isn’t herself. Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is, but she also doesn’t want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.
Flávia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Flávia is appropriating Nishat’s culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled—but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush on Flávia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized."
Research Skills
- Access to CHS databases and online resources
- Citation and note-taking tools
- Video tutorials on effective and responsible "Googling"
- Evaluation resources
- A "Deep Dive" video tutorial outlining effective research steps and strategies and a model on how to begin the research process
DID YOU KNOW?
How to Access Sora
Contact Mrs. Blanchard
Questions? Stuck in your research? Looking for your next great read? Just want to chat?
Find Mrs. Blanchard on Twitter or email her directly:
Email: courtney_blanchard@mcpsmd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/chs-media-center/books/ebooks-and-audiobooks?authuser=0
Twitter: @CburgLibrary