Northview Reads...in the summer, too!

Here are the Top 5 ways to keep your brain working and have some fun this summer!

5. Share what you've been reading on our NORTHVIEW READS summer reading blog!  Read along with these teachers, or strike out on your own and post a recommendation:

• Mrs. Cooper is reading Crazy by Han Nolan
• Mrs. Silvey is reading The Raft by S.A. Bodeen
• Mrs. Laake is reading Paper Towns by John Green
• Mr. Knight is reading Ashfall by Mike Mullin
• Ms. Hook is reading Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and The Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater
• Ms. Lechtenberg is reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi...and many more to be decided!

4. Get SYNC audiobooks for free throughout the summer!

3.  Sign up for Kirkendall Public Library's summer reading program, and visit their website for ideas

2. Start reading the 2014-2015 Iowa High School Book Award and Iowa Teen Award books!

1.  Download the MackinVIA app or visit MackinVIA.com to use our audiobooks and ebooks!  (Username and password are student ID and 6-digit birthday)

Register for the Kirkendall Summer Reading Program!

Sign up for the summer reading program at the Kirkendall Public Library!  You'll have to go to Kirkendall to pick up a reading tracker form, but you can set your goal and sign up here.

There will be a competition with Southview, so let's represent Northview and do some great reading this summer, Jaguars!

Also, stay tuned for summer reading chats led by Northview teachers!

Vote for the Iowa Library Associations Book Awards!

Click here to vote for your favorite book from the Iowa Teen Award and Iowa High School Book Award nominees!

The Overprotected Kid

The Atlantic's recent cover story is called "The Overprotected Kid," and it questions whether parents are harming their kids by protecting them from failure and not allowing them to take risks.  How does this article relate to your own experience of being a kid?  Have you been over-protected?

What's with all these SAD books???

At some point in the year, my students always whined, "Ms. L, why is everything we read so SAD?"  Well, aside from the fact that I'm just one of those strange people who enjoys sad stories (they're so POWERFUL and they make me think about what it means to be human), here's an article from the New York Times Sunday Book Review that looks at happy books and sad books...

Spread the Word to End the Word

Today is an great chance to pledge to stop using the word "retarded" as an insult.  It's a day of awareness, a time to think about how the words we use affect others.  So please, be intentional when you speak, and visit www.r-word.org to add your name to the pledge!

Globalization: It's a small world after all!

Check out these articles about globalization in Asia, and join the conversation in the comments below!