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Library of Congress: News for Teachers

The Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
The Hispanic Division and the Center for the book invite everyone to join them and the Consortium of Latin American Studies program for the awarding of the Americas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature to Pat Mora and Rafael López the author and illustrator of Yum! ¡Mmmm! ¡Qué Rico! America’s Sproutings and Laura Resau, the author of Red Glass. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 4th from 10am-12 at the Mumford Room in the James Madison Building at the Library of Congress. The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States. Please call 202-707-2013 to confirm your attendance. We hope you can join us.
National Book Festival and Young Readers Toolkit
Please join us at the National Book Festival September 27th on the National Mall. Among some 70 authors and illustrators participating this year are Tiki Barber, Marc Brown, R. L. Stein, Judith Viorst, Sharon Draper, Neil Gaiman, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Robert Sabuda, Dorren Cronin and Steven Kellogg. Jon Scieszka, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and Pat Ryan, the new Poet Laureate, will also be in attendance. Also meet illustrator Jan Brett who created this year’s Book Festival poster. Make sure to visit the Library of Congress Pavilion to learn about the new Library of Congress experience, the World Digital Library, our collaboration with Flickr and how to preserve your home library. Visit the Pavilion of the States to learn about reading programs in your state and the Let’s Read America Pavilion with fun activities to spur families to enjoy reading. For those who cannot attend the book festival think about planning one of your own. The Young Readers’ Toolkit helps to bring the National Book Festival into libraries, schools and homes across the country. The Toolkit features information about National Book Festival authors who write for children and teens, podcasts of their readings, teaching tools and activities for kids. This interactive resource also shows educators, parents and children how they can host their own book festival. The Young Readers Toolkit can be found at http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2008/toolkit/
Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day - Friday, September 19th
Does your school celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day? Here are some links to pirate resources to add some educational heft to a fun activity: Watch one of the webcasts from the day long symposium on Pirates and Corsairs of the Americas in History and Literature. Find the list at http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/webcasts.html Explore the book The Buccaneers of America from the Exploring the Early Americas collection http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/buccaneers/html/. Also share maps documenting early treasure ships and the treasures they found and the work that was done to stop pirates in the Americas at <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/online/aftermath/aftermath2.html#object119> Read Gerald Gawalt’s Essay on the Barbary Pirates at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html Play some pirate related sheet music. The Music for the Nation collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html has the Pirates March and the Pirates Cave March. Or listen to the song Down Around the Coast of La Barbaree from the California Gold Collection. <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cowellbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afccc+a3812b1))> Watch an Edison Film of Police Arresting Pirates <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2b48027))>
Constitution Day Resources and Internet Archive Project
Here are two special announcements: Apply to be part of the Internet Archive k-12 project http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ Could your school be one of 10 middle or high schools helping to capture and archive today’s primary source materials on the Web? A small number of individuals and institutions recognize the importance of archiving and preserving the often transitory digital cultural artifacts that are distributed over the Web. But so far, the vast majority of decisions about what Web sites will live into the future have been made by adults, and reflect adults’ sensibilities about what constitutes the important stuff of history. The Internet Archive, the Library of Congress and California Digital Library are collaborating on a project that explores archiving the Web from the perspective of adolescents. Find a complete project description and the brief application in the "Featured Resources" section at http://www.loc.gov/teachers/. Apply by September 30 for full consideration. Constitution Day Resources from the Library of Congress http://thomas.loc.gov/teachers/constitution.html In celebration of Constitution Day, the Library of Congress has compiled a variety of materials from across its collections. This year, the Library introduced two lesson plan that help students analyze drafts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights to discover the process involved in creating the new nation. New online activities for secondary students help students connect particular phrases and ideas set down in these two documents with the texts that preceded them. A third new online activity for elementary students helps them get acquainted with some of the words related to the founding documents of the United States. Explore these rich resources and features to learn more about one of America’s most important documents.
Portals to the World
Looking for information about foreign countries? Visit Portals to the World to find links to high quality websites vetted by Library of Congress staff members. Many of them are in the language of the country; perfect for those teaching foreign languages.
Folklore in the Classroom
Interested in bringing folklore materials into your classroom? Visit the American Folklife Center where you can learn about their heritage projects where they work to encourage students to learn more about their communities, see lesson plans using folklore activities, link to American Memory collections that highlight folklore materials and learn how to send for a poster providing additional ideas to use in your classroom.

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