Week in Review: The One with the Walk

Happy end of the first full week of the school year!

The 10th graders were treated to a visit from Sacramento Room librarian, James Scott, this week. Scott spoke to students about the Sacramento room and the historical treasures it houses. He also talked about the kinds of resources the public library has available to help facilitate research for their Sophomore Projects and even did a virtual walk-through of newspaper archives on some of the topics shared.

The library also acted as host this week for the 9th and 10 grade initial discussions on the all high school read, Interior Chinatown. Mr. Hinojosa gave an overview of some of the themes and stereotypes found in the book in preparation for break-out groups later this month that will explore these topics more in depth.

Wednesday also saw the beginning of Hispanic/LatinX Heritage Month. Check out our Instagram post featuring some of our new library helpers holding some great Hispanic/LatinX literature. Be sure to follow us @matthewslibraryscds for more great recommendations!

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On Thursday the 10th graders took to the back field to walk and discuss their paper topic with a partner. Each pair shared their topic as they walked around the track, sometimes more than twice, and then debriefed in the garden.

Week in Review: The One With the Wildlife Rescue

Happy second week of school! We hope you’re getting back into the groove of things after a long holiday weekend. The library is back to bustling business as usual. The sophomores took over the library this week, visiting with both their English and History classes. Students worked on focusing their research topics and learning how to paraphrase. They learned how to make outlines and navigated Noodletools, a research management platform. On Thursday, both English and History classes were in the library at the same time working on their zombie issues assignment, which helped students navigate the different features in Noodletools they’ll be using with their Sophomore Project.

The library had a special visitor on Thursday – a dragonfly! They flew into the library office and needed several helping hands to make it back outside. Wildlife rescuers Jacob and Rod helped gently catch the dragon fly with an empty garbage bin and a blanket after which Ms. Melinson set on a table outside. The dragonfly flew away after several minutes, hopefully not into anymore buildings.

Week in Review: Welcome back!

We’re back! Back in school, back in person, and back to our weekly review of what happens in (and, this year especially, around) the Matthews Library.

Mrs. Frandrup’s Book Elective stopped by on the first day of school to check out some new reading material. The library is positively bursting with new books so they had much to choose from.

The 10th graders were in the library on Thursday to learn about their big research unit, the Sophomore Project. Ms. Melinson introduced them to what they would be doing and then had them brainstorm ideas by searching through local Sacramento magazines and websites.

Ms. Melinson also met with her advisory for the first time and ate tasty, fancy snacks.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Strong was out some of the week practicing one of our most important civic responsibilities – jury duty. While she can’t talk about the experience yet, she can share some photos from the beautiful Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse.