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CVHS Library announces a new schoolwide vocabulary building challenge. 

The Word Wise weekly challenge encourages students to learn and practice a set of academic words. The academic words are initially selected from Avril Coxhead's Academic Word List (AWL), University of Wellington, NZ.  

Teachers can engage students in the Word Wise challenge via this link. New words are posted on Mondays. Self-quizzes are posted on Fridays.

https://library.cv.k12.ca.us/academicwriting/vocabulary

 

Students can also independently find a new “Build vocabulary” section on the library website under the student services menu. 

The library will offer prizes at the end of the semester for:

  • Stupendous effort 
  • Most words learned
  • Most creative use
  • Word wise wizard level, individual
  • Most word wise class and runner up (Frosh, Sophomore, Junior, Senior)

The Words of the Week for November 11-15 are:

This program is inspired by our English teachers' call to all academic departments to contribute to teaching academic vocabulary to our students. Thank you, English teachers!

11/08/2024

The third Love My Library Cleanup event will take place after school on November 14. Students, library volunteers, club advisors, and administrators who use the library after hours are all encouraged to register. Register on the library events calendar

The Love My Library and Take the Pledge Program are pilot programs to enable a food in the library policy while also improving the preservation of library collections. 

Our last two events are in November and December and will focus on completing the fiction collections bookshelves and some study spaces. In December the program will be assessed for participation and progress toward collection preservation. 

Let's keep our library sparkling! Thank you for registering.

11/08/2024
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By popular demand, CVHS Library has added a “View Catalog” button on the homepage. Students, teachers and staff now have the option to access the library catalog directly without entering a search or by entering a search. 

The button functions similarly to the “View A-Z databases” on the Database A-Z tab, which, when clicked, displays all academic databases available to CVHS students and staff.

Library users must log in to Destiny using their school Google account to be able to view their account.

This month, CVHS Library celebrates the history and contemporary works of Native American, Indigenous and First Nations authors and activists. A special exhibit documents the historic Klamath River Dam removals and Yurok youth eco-activists. CVHS environmentalists can gain inspiration from this decades-long effort to restore the natural flow of the Klamath River.

Biography

Fiction

Activism, Agency and Resistance

Yurok Youth EcoActivism and the Klamath Dam Removals

History

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