[CASL-L] in search of these :

[CAITLIN M-A. CARBONELL]

As a insider, most publishers are work-from-home at this time. I have a few friends who work for different publishing houses (one being an art director, SO COOL!!); and they've closed offices to work from their homes. So someone might answer a phone, just not who you might be looking for....


Caitlin Carbonell

Librarian

East Hartford Middle School

860-622-5604


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From: Cathy Andronik <cathyandronik at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:28 AM
To: 'casl-l at mylist.net'; Baerny, Susan
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] in search of these :


Just an idea: Have you contacted the publishers?  Given the current situation, they might be open to helping provide digital copies. Not sure whether publishers are "essential" in NYC right now; I know the educational company I work for (Seattle area) has shut its offices temporarily.

Also, just saying: this is one of those times when teachers really need to be flexible about book or topic choices, to understand that not everything they want or believe is in the cloud library is available right now, free with multiple copies, in the format they want it.  (We school librarians, and public librarians who see the kids after school with impossible requirements in their assignments, know what I mean.)  Before planning a unit, teachers need to consult with their librarians to examine online catalogs, see what's available digitally for multiple users, and craft lessons around what there is, not what they wish were there or what's sitting back in the book room in school.  Maybe expanding "child soldiers" into "recent child experiences in wartime," focusing on primary sources if possible.  Including audiobooks as an option.

I'm not criticizing teachers, I would not want to be putting lessons together in current circumstances and I admire what they are doing, but when it comes to 100ish kids having access to the same book(s) that may not be available digitally, the reality of including the librarian in collaborative unit planning hits home.

Cathy Andronik







On Wednesday, 25 March 2020, 01:33:49 pm UTC, Baerny, Susan <baernys at newmilfordps.org> wrote:



My 8th grade ELA classes are starting a unit on child soldiers. They have asked me to find (free) digital copies or .pdf's of these books. They are looking for the whole book (not excerpts). I've not had any luck so far (except for resources related to the books as teacher guides) .

The titles are:

Child Soldier: When boys and girls are used in war by Jessice Dee Humphries about Michel                                   Chikwananine

War Brothers: the Graphic Novel by Sharon McKay

Long Way Gone:Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah


Thank you.


Susan Baerny, MA.Ed.
Schaghticoke Middle School
Teacher Librarian
860-354-2204x113

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
        -Harold Howe


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