Yo Ho Ho! Welcome Pirates!

Welcome (back) Pirates to a hopefully "normal" school year! Since we had to limit the number of students that entered our doors last year, we are hoping that this year we can resume our normal operations. This means lots of NOISE in our library coming from you! We also want to extend a very special welcome to our Class of 2025! You will find that this school library is a place for all students. The library (room 300) is open from 7:30 AM until 4:30 PM, unless otherwise posted. Students are welcome to use the library during any free period, before, or after school. Many of our new books have arrived - almost 350 of them!

If you want to find out what's going on in the school and in the library you should follow us on Twitter and Instagram? We are @MephamHS! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to stop by and see us. We can't wait to have a great school year with you.

Summer Reading 2021

We made it! Can you believe we made it through this year offering in-person, everyday classes two weeks into the school year during a pandemic? I can hardly believe it myself. And just like that, it's over! Now, we start getting ready for next school year by, you guessed it, READING! Click here to see what summer reading at Mepham High School looks like. 

Creative Submissions for Fragments

Calling all writers and artists! Would you like your work to be considered for publication in this year's issue of Fragments, Mepham's literary and art magazine? We are looking for original poetry, short stories, narratives, or artwork. DEADLINE for submissions is midnight MAY 5th!

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Mepham's Book Club: Second Meeting

Our second book selection for Mepham's Book Club is The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

Please reach out to Mrs. Stack if you need a copy of the book. Our next book club meeting is Wednesday, May 26, at 3:30 pm. Mepham students can join our Google Classroom. The code is: 2r7zedd. You can also follow us on Instagram @_mhsbookclub. 

Collections

Follett Collections by Destiny® creates new, collaborative ways for librarians, teachers, and students to share resources across the district or school. We've created a number of collections with books on various topics, such as 9/11, LGBTQIA+, novels in verse, humor, immigrant voices, coming of age, first-person point of view, memoirs, and many others. Students and teachers can access district resources in Follett Destiny Discover®.  Each Collection can include web pages, images, documents, eBooks, and more! Collections can also be shared publicly or kept private. With Collections, teachers can quickly pair content to instruction, and students can collect and curate resources for assignments, projects, and tasks. You do not need to be logged in to access our Collections when you are in the school building. If you would like to create your own Collection, please see a librarian and we will show you how to do it. 

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These are our Collections

Spring Books

Our last book order for the school year has arrived. Check out our latest titles. This year the Mepham High School Library was able to add more than 529 books to our collection. This includes fiction and non-fiction, and diverse books from authors all over the world. Additionally, we were able to purchase eBooks and audiobooks through Sora for the second year in a row. If you don't see what you are looking for, please ask a librarian for help. 

Bellmore-Merrick Librarians take Digital Literacy to MAP

This past week the Bellmore-Merrick librarians taught the first of four digital literacy lessons to our students in the Meadowbrook Alternative Program (MAP).  Rachel Mathieu-Leo, from Merrick Avenue Middle School, taught the 9th-grade students via Zoom about plagiarism, fake news and misinformation, and digital footprints. Mrs. Mathieu-Leo focused on real-world examples and how these three topics can affect student's daily lives. Next up is Sharon Roccaforte, the librarian from Calhoun High School, who will teach the 10th-grade students this week. Each lesson will build on the previously taught skills. 

Coming up: 

Kristen Mogavero, the librarian from Kennedy High School who will teach 11th-grade students.
Kathryn Belakas, the librarian from Grand Avenue Middle School who will teach 12th-grade students.