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April 12, 2010 | General
It’s National Library Week! Stop in the LRC to do a puzzle and sign up for gift baskets. Also, library fines are half off this week. See the LRC website for more details. Monday the basket winners were Liz Ottens & Colleen Ware. The puzzle winners were Nathan Bielema & Morgan Sanquist. Please stop in to claim your prizes.
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April 8, 2010 | General
"Sail into the LRC for a good book!"
During National Library Week:
1. Do a daily puzzle and recieve a piece of candy. If you have the correct answer, you will be entered in a prize drawing.
2. Sign up for the daily gift basket drawings.
3. Pay your fines during National Library Week and only pay half!
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April 8, 2010 | General
Number 1-30 on your paper. Using the completed country projects, located in my project folder in the P drive, answer the following question for each clue. You can't use the internet to answer these. If you use the internet you will get an automatic zero and will be asked to log off.
Where am I.......Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Columbia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Venezuela or Argentina?
1. Guacho Country (wind-blown prairie)
2. Mar del Plata
3. San Juan
4. Bogota Plaza Summit Hotel
5. Valle de la Luna
6. Religion: Roman Catholic & Santeria
7. Famous Disco "Casapueblo"
8. Population of 16,000,000
9. Cozumel
10. Incan Ruins
11. Guayaquil
12. Tropical Martime Country
13. San Jose
14. Currency: Bolivar
15. Malecon Boardwalk
16. Easter Island
17. Angel Falls
18. US Territory
19. Chichen Itza Tour
20. Bellamar Caves
21. Active volcano 90 miles from the capital city
22. Home of the second largest port in the western hemisphere
23. Nickname: "The Endless Summer"
24. 82 is the average temp.
25. Organic cocoa beans are a main source of income
26. The Beach Frontier
27. Montevideo
28. Havana
29. Santa Domingo
30. Coco Boutique Hotel
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March 16, 2010 | General
Did you miss class or forget what the assignment is? Click on the Spanish 1 page up above to see what you missed.
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March 16, 2010 | General
2011 Nominees
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian -- Sherman Alexie
Artichoke’s Heart -- Suzanne Supplee
Boot Camp -- Todd Strasser
Deadline -- Chris Crutcher
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks -- E. Lockhart
Elsewhere -- Gabrielle Zevin
Evermore: the Immortals -- Alyson Noel
Graceling -- Kristin Cashore
Hold Tight -- Harlan Coben
House Rules: a Memoir -- Rachel Sontag
Hunger Games -- Suzanne Collins
Jerk, California –- Jonathan Friesen
Just Listen -- Sarah Dessen
Paper Towns -- John Greene
Perfect Chemistry -- Simone Elkeles
Right Behind You -- Gale Giles
Rucker Park Setup -- Paul Volponi
Spanking Shakespeare -- Jake Wizner
Thousand Splendid Suns -- Khaled Hosseini
Twisted -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Unwind -- Neal Shusterman
Wake -- Lisa McMann
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August 29, 2009 | General
Check out my new site! It is still a work in progress......
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