Read-A-Thon for Room to Read

On January 9th, the first Friday back from break, we will be hosting the second annual Read-a-Thon from 3:30 - 10:30 PM in the Library and Technology Center to raise money for Room to Read. They spend 85.8% of their charity budget to building libraries and delivering services. They got an overall score of 93.69 out of 100 on Charity Navigator! Over your holiday break, track down and or email all relatives and friends to raise at least $25 (hopefully much more). Our goal is to raise $4,000 this year! There will be prizes for the most money and most sponsors. 

Click here to create an account and make your online campaign. Let us know if you need help!

On Friday, January 9th, remember to bring your favorite books, pillows, blankets, and PJs!  See this spreadsheet to sign up to READ and to bring food and drink.  At 6 PM we'll have Lasagna in the PA Room.  If you have any questions email Chloe or Gaelan. 

Finally, we will also be collecting children’s books so that Yunxin can bring to a school in China. Here are some pictures from our donation last summer, they’re absolutely adorable!

Gaelan Bergstrom

11th Grade

The Hobbit - Friday, December 19th after Exams

Join us for the final movie installment of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies on Friday, December 19th after your last exam before our holiday break.

We will meet in Rhonda's cafe at 11 AM to ride two minibuses to Marbles Museum. The movie starts at 1 PM, but we want to arrive early enough to get in line for good seats in the IMAX auditorium. See http://www.imaxraleigh.org/ for details.

We will eat together at Marbles Museum, you can bring your lunch or eat at the Pogo Cafe. $10 will get you a salad, or sandwich/burger with a side and a drink. http://www.pogoraleigh.com/

Sign up HERE to reserve your seat on the buses. We are also purchasing movie tickets on Wednesday, December 17 because the movie could sell out. If you are unsure of your plans, you could sign up for the ride and plan to buy tickets closer to the date.

Student Coordinator: Grace Berry

Chaperones: Ms. Kelly and Mrs. Thrash (cell 919-271-4131)

Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1

4:00 PM on Friday, November 21st @ Six Forks Cinema

All Upper School students welcome!

We're going to leave the school at 3:40 PM, so you'll have time to go to tutorial and get together all of your work for the weekend. You can meet us there, or follow us, or ride on the minibus, sign up at the link below so we'll have room. Tickets are $6.50 and you can buy them when you get there.

Please RSVP if you’re interested in seeing “Mockingjay” with us!

Have your parents pick you up from the theater. Six Forks Cinema, behind ChickFilA and KMart on Six Forks Road.

See the Trailer here! 

Questions: see Gaelan and Kristin or Mrs. Thrash

Update:

Thanks to all who came, we had a blast!

Books to China

We collected a few hundred books at our Read-a-thon. Yunxin took them to students at a school in China who were thrilled to choose a new book. Thanks to all who donated, and Yunxin for delivering them!

Two Clubs for Readers!

Come on out today at our Club Expo to find out more about the Order of the Croft and the Book Club.

Reading Ravens Book Club will read a variety of books and possibly go see a few openings of books turned into movies. Presidents this year are Chloe Pacyna and Mykayla Perry.

Order of the Croft is our Harry Potter Alliance Chapter, led by Sophie Raymer and Sage Battle.

Join us!

Pathfinders for Sophomores!

EasyBib - Start all of your projects here, by creating a new project, and adding all links to websites, ISBNs for books, and cut and pasted citations from Library Databases. See this video to see examples!

The Island of Dr. Moreau 

To find out more about Darwin and his theories of Evolution and Survival of the Fittest, you would want to look in some of our biographies and stories about his travels – call numbers 574-575. In our Databases – you are looking for reference articles on Social Darwinism from Encyclopedias or Biographies. Look in ABC Clio, Global Issues in Context or History Reference Center. Off campus, you’ll need our passwords given out in class.

Jekyll & Hyde

For more about Freud, psychoanalysis, and his personality theories of Id, Ego, and Super Ego, his books are in our Psychology section, 150.2. You will also find good articles on his work by looking for Freud in ABC Clio Database.

Karl Marx and his theories can be found in several areas, like 320.5 and 335, and also read the article about him and the links within that article in ABC Clio Database.

Divergent - Thursday, March 20

Join us as we see the film adaptation of Divergent by Veronica Roth on opening night, Thursday, March 20th

Meet at Six Forks Cinema at 7:30 for the 8 PM Showing. Pickup at 10:30 PM. Put your name on this Google Doc so we can be in touch about any updates or changes!

See you then!

Read-A-Thon Success!

It’s tough to find time to read, so Book Club Leaders gave students the opportunity to read quietly while building families around the world.  On Friday, January 10th from 3:30-11:30 PM, we gathered in the quiet reading area and our sponsors helped us raise at least $2600 for Heifer International ($ is still coming in from donors).

All funds will go to the WorldBuilder organization for Heifer, as promoted by one of our favorite authors, Patrick Rothfuss!  (The Name of the Wind series)  A heifer can go to a family in a developing country for only $500, offering the family milk and giving them hope for sustainability.

Thanks to coordinator Gaelan Bergstron and Book Club Presidents Chloe Pacyna and Mykayla Perry for putting this even together!  See more photos by Megan Boericke here.