Reading with Pride

Today, students attended a celebration of JY Reading with Pride! The following students and staff completed Dr. Grier's summer reading challenge of reading at least five books this summer. Congratulations to:

Musuluma, Jorshae, Armontre, Charles, Alaye, Dat, Ariel, Brittney, Ms. Clary, Ms.Cooke, and Mr. Johnson

The students received the following Reader VIP gifts:

-millionaire beads
-free YA books
-Jack in the Box coupons for free shakes, free meals, and a free drink with purchase
-Free tickets to a Houston Rockets game
-a book cover
-pen
-a coupon for a free Chick Fil La sandwich
-an invitation to the PTO ice cream social
The staff members received beads and a teacher supply tote bag filled with goodies.

Thanks to Ms. Broussard for helping with the decorations and issuing the incentives! Thank you to Ms. Payne for helping to coordinate the program and celebration!

Pictures should appear here soon. (Some forgetful librarian forgot to bring her camera interface to school with her. ) Look for photos by 10:00 P.M.

Read a banned book!

Austin Teen Book Festival

It is this weekend.I am planning to dress in Steampunk costume. I am so excited!

Banned Book- Crank by Ellen Hopkins

...suffering the pain of trying to figure out who she is and who she wants to be. She is introduced to drugs by a boy she meets on a summer visit to her estranged father’s and finds herself becoming addicted, losing control of her life, herself and her decisions...
from the Yalsa Hub
Crank is also a 2011-2012 Name That Book Selection

This week is Banned Books Week

All Jack Yates Students and staff, celebrate your intellectual freedom!


Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Our school library supports the freedom to access information and express ideas. Our library program also stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or even unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them. This week, visit the library to view the banned books display and practice your intellectual freedom.

Image from: http://mvclibrary.wordpress.com/category/banned-book-week/

Lunch Loteria, Extra Credit, & Wing Stop!

Mario has won three games of Lunch Loteria. If he wins two more games, he gets to enter for a free box from Wing Stop!

Come practice Spanish and earn extra credit with

Lunch Loteria! I shall meet you in the cafeteria during lunch.

Extra Credit for Senior English

The survey is still up and running. Hurry, hurry before grade go in. See Ms. Williams or Ms. Nauls-Jones for deadline and the amount of extra credit points.

Go to August 24

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

September 16-October 15
Lotto at lunch, Come to our library to find out more or ask Mr. Jenness, Ms. Murphy, Ms. Aguliar, or Mr. C. Johnson about our upcoming Hispanic Heritage Festival!

Congratulations to our Millionaire Summer Reading Club Winners!

(photos will appear here, soon)

Last Changce to Submit Reading Lists

Friday, September 9 is your last chance to turn in your Millionaire Club Summer Reading List to Ms. Hunter or your english teachers.

Preparing for Dia de la Muertos

Art students, please let your instructor know when you have viewed this video.

Book Recommendations from Guest Blogger Cletus Johnson

Ms. Hunter,

Here is my list of books that I read over the summer. Dr. Grier asked for five (5). I finished eleven (11) and am still going strong.

The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
Known to Evil, by Walter Mosley
When the Thrill is Gone , by Walter Mosley
My Name is Asher Lev, by Chiam Potok
Chasin’ the Train: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane, by J. C. Thomas
Thinking Through Aesthetics, by Marilyn Stewart
Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Susan Vreeland
A Caribbean Mystery, by Agatha Christie
Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone, by George Myerson
Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus. Paul Roche, translator
Classroom Management that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher, by Robert Marzano with Jana S. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering

Update on assigned summer reading

Most books for English/Language Arts and Art summer reading assignments for traditional and AP classes are still available in the library. 'sorry, all copies of Catcher in the Rye have been checked out. Please check with us after September 9th.