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Auburn Junior High School Media Center Overview and Curriculum
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 * ===**Mission Statement **===
 * ===Auburn City Schools "Library Media Program Mission": ===
 * The mission of the library media program is to assist members of the school community in becoming effective users of information and to foster the love of reading.
 * ====**Auburn Junior High "School Library Media Center Mission Statement": **====
 * The mission of the Auburn Junior High School Library Media Center is to promote and encourage reading, provide access to information, and enrich the diverse learning experiences taking place in our school. The Library Media Center is used for research, small group instruction and enrichment, independent study, use of technology, and selection of literature. Our goal is to create a friendly environment open to learning and creativity.


 * ===**﻿Belief Statement **===
 * We believe that the Library Media Specialist (LMS) and school administrators should lead in developing programs that make effective access to information and ideas a reality. This requires the full integration of the library media program into the curriculum; a working partnership among administrators, teachers, and parents; and the serious commitment of each of those partners to the value of universal and unrestricted access to information and ideas.


 * ===**Goals and Objectives **===
 * To provide materials and services appropriate to the curriculum of the school by...
 * Identifying and purchasing resources to support the curriculum.
 * Planning and implementing programs to meet the needs of the school community.
 * To provide materials and services that meet the informational, developmental, and recreational reading needs of the learning community by...
 * Identifying and purchasing resources to support the informational, developmental and recreational reading needs of the community.
 * Organizing and promoting programs to encourage recreational reading.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To provide opportunities for collaboration with other educators to incorporate information literacy into instruction by....
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Being an active participant in the curriculum development for the learning community.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Organizing and implementing staff development sessions that model the incorporation of information literacy into instruction.


 * ====**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Population Served **====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">67 Teachers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1,009 Students
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Caucasian: 599
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">African-American: 302
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hispanic:16
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Asian: 77
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other: 15


 * ====**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Staff **====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School librarian- Elizabeth Lundey
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School library aide- Connie Schnuelle
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Technology Coordinator- Michael Smith


 * ====**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Facilities **====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 Wooden tables with four chairs each
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 Desktop computers at carrels, with additional carrels for study
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The school is a 1:1 laptop school, so students are able to bring their laptops to the media center with them
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Copier
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Laser printer
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Computer to access the online catalog
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Periodical section with four chairs and coffee table

The Auburn Junior HIgh School library collection supports the curriculum in the following areas for this project:

 * ===**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8th grade English Language Arts important places research project objectives **===
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ELA 4. Apply strategies appropriate to type of reading material, including making inferences to determine bias or theme and using specific context clues, to comprehend eighth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Applying self-monitoring strategies for text understanding
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comparing predicted with actual content in informational and functional reading materials
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Distinguishing fact from opinion in informational reading materials
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Confirming author's credential
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ELA 5. Explain distinguishing characteristics of odes, ballads, epic poetry, historical documents, essays, letters to the editor, and editorials.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ELA 13. Combine all aspects of the research process to compose a report. Examples: outline, rough draft, editing, final copy, works-cited page.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Taking notes to gather and summarize information
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using paraphrasing and documentation of sources to avoid plagiarism


 * ===**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8th grade Social Studies Egypt-related objectives **===
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SS 1. Explain how artifacts and other archaeological findings provide evidence of the nature and movement of prehistoric groups of people.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SS 2. Analyze characteristics of early civilizations in respect to technology, division of labor, government, calendar, and writings.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SS 3. Compare the development of early world religions, philosophies, and their key tenets.


 * ====**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scope and sequence of information literacy skills and technology skills for grades 8-9 **====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grades K-12 Information Literacy Skills Standards []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grades 6-8 Technology Skills Standards []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grades 9-12 Technology Skills Standards []