Ms. Inman

Share the Gift of Reading

See the Reading Raider blog for information on our 4th anual Dickerson Book Award

Reading Raiders

GALILEO Student Research Center

Tearing Down the Wall

Matching Skills to the Needs of a Nation

Celebration of Unity

The Cold War

Download Polonec Articles

NetTrekker

How to use NetTrekker from home.
NetTrekker is an educational searching tool.  Nettrekker web sites have been reviewed by teachers for credibility, depth, and readability. Special search tools are included for images and famous persons, and it also has a "read aloud" feature. In order use this safe searching tool from home, students first need to go to Nettrekker at school and register for an account.

This handout will help you register.
Download Nettrekker registration instructions

e-Books in the Media Center

Dickerson’s e-books: Dickerson Middle School media center has purchased informational, electronic reference books for use from school and home.  E-books, published by Gale, allow multiple users to search or browse scholarly reference articles in science, history and popular culture at any time of the day.  The password for access is: home.   Dickerson’s e-books include the following titles 

Junior Worldmark Ency. of Physical Geography
U*X*L American Decades
U*X*L Encyclopedia of Water Science
U.S. Immigration and Migration Ref. Library
World War II Ref. Library

Cobb Virtual Library  - You should have the passwords to access these databases from home

 Worldbook Online
 Grolier’s
Gale Student Resource Center - is a good source for historical information, biography and primary source docs.   

Download Ebooks handout

Happy Searching

 

T-Read-or T-Reading was a great success

Way to go Dickerson Students! You used Destiny to search the subject fields of your book, then found and checked out 4,411 books of which 1,429  were non-fiction - way to used that Dewey Decimal System and make the most of your on-line catalog!!! Not to mention you challenged your vocabulary by reading harder (non-fiction) books!
We Media Gals are quite proud of you.

p.s. you are welcome to stop by the media center any morning and help us put the books away:)

 

Book Fair

The book fair was a success.  A HUGE THANK YOU to all the parents who helped schedule, set-up/pack-up, and worked the fair.  We certainly could not have done it with out your help!!!:)  We sold over $9000 in books and other merchandise and were able to select over $1,000 in fiction and non-fiction books. The following are just a few of the popular new titles we should have ready soon:

Fiction
Search and Destroy by Dean Huges
Dog Lost by Ingrid Lee
Secrets of Laurel Oaks by Lois Ruby
Clockwork Three by Matthew Kirby
Morpheus Road: The Light by D.J. MacHale (Author of the Pendragon series)
Books 8, 9, and 10 of the 39 Clues series
A Millions Shades of Gray by Cyntia Kadohata (personal favorite of mine)
Theodore Boon: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
Crispin: The End of Time by Avi (third book in the series)
Dark Fire by Chris D'Lacey
and many more

Non Fiction
Several great cookbooks
Mega Monsters: The biggest & Baddest Monster Trucks
All Access: Sports Illustrated for Kids
Klutz Book of Brilliantly Rediculous Inventions
Mythopedia: She's All That
Mythopedia: Oh My Gods
And many more

Stop by the media center and "check them out!"