General Information

Hours

• 8:05 - 4:00
• Open during all three lunches
• Students may come in before school, during lunch (eat first), and after school without a pass.
• During the school day individual students and small groups may come to the library with a pass.

Circulation (Borrowing Books)

• Students may borrow 3 items (books and/or magazines) for 3 weeks.
• Science teachers and Social Studies teachers will be asked to bring their classes to the library once every three weeks so that all students regularly come to the library to borrow books. 
• These classes will come on either Tuesdays or Fridays.
• Individual students may come without a pass any time before school, during lunch, or after school. 
• Individual students can come to the library during the school day any time with a pass from a teacher.
• Students may get different books and/or magazines every day if they want.
• We will charge fines this year.  It will cost students 5 cents per day for overdue books up to a maximum charge of $1.00. 

Class Schedules

The library maintains a flexible schedule.  Classes are scheduled by teachers with Mrs. Edwards during or after collaborative planning. Information literacy and Instructional Technology are incorporated into content areas.

 

Reading

Finding "Good Books"

Reading Counts

Reading Counts Quiz List

 

Research & Information Literacy

Need for (Reliable) Information

Why do we need or care about Information?

• Search Skills
• Evaluating Information
• Reliable Resources
• Carver OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
• Tulsa Public Schools Library Resources
  • Ask Mrs. Edwards or Mrs. Hinckley for Login and Password.
  • You can use these references at home too!  Make sure that you take the login and password home with you and show your parents.
• Tulsa City-County Library Teens' Pages
• Tulsa City-County Library

• References available from Tulsa City-County Library

• • You will need your TCCL Library card to use these.  

  • You can use these from home too!

• Internet Public Library - Teen Space
• A to Z for Young Adults
• A to Z for Carver Teachers
• The BIG6 - The BIG6 is the information literacy model that Tulsa Public Schools has adopted.  "Developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world." http://big6.org/showarticle.php?id=415
• Boolean Searching with Rockwell Schrock
• Boolean Searching
• Search Strategies
• Statistical Resources
• Evaluating Information
• Evaluating Web Pages - UC Berkeley Library
• Evaluating Web Pages - from Cornell

   

 

Projects and Portfolios

• 6th Grade Generic Project Ideas
• 7th Grade Generic Project Ideas
• 8th Grade Generic Project Ideas
• Project Variations

Current Literary Events

• Encyclo-Media
• Festival of Books
• Sequoyah Book Awards Information
• Tulsa Public Schools Online Book Reviews

 

Citation Information

• How to create footnotes or endnotes in Word
• Write a Bibliography using Easy Bib
• MLA Style Citation (Modern Language Association) Instructions provided by University of California Berkeley Library
• Use Citation Machine - Choose MLA format.
• Refer to your TM, pages 11-13.

Reading and Writing

• Genres
• Poetry - Poetry is a genre also.
• Carver Students' Writing
• Scholastic
• Sequoyah Book Awards
• Book Suggestions

Word Fun

• Acronyms
• Alliteration
• Idioms
• Oxymorons
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Tricky Words

Tech Directions

• The Y: Drive for Students
• HP Digital Cameras

If you have any comments or suggestions, you may e-mail those to edwarmo@tulsaschools.org.

This page was last updated:  Thursday, October 30, 2008, 09:41 AM.

 

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