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 Make sure you check out all the resources located on the right side. Some require passwords, other accounts.

Ancestry Classroom

 While on campus, you can access Ancestry.com for classrooms. Here are some suggested classroom activities:

Family (History) Vacations

To help your students learn more about their family stories when visiting with relatives this summer, we want to remind you about the free oral history interview resources in the Family History toolkit here for students and families.  

New Collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration

Last month Ancestry announced its largest archive collaboration to date with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to digitize, index and publish tens of millions of NARA records over the next five years. The scope and depth of these collections reflect the richness and diversity of America’s people including draft cards from the Korean War era, Naturalization and Immigration records, Asian American records, and Native American records. Once Ancestry digitizes these records, AncestryClassroom educators and students will have access to historical records previously unavailable online. Learn more about the collaboration here.

National History Day

Ancestry is excited to sponsor the 50th year of National History Day. NHD reaches more than half a million students and tens of thousands of teachers each year via its international student history contest, teacher professional development programs, curriculum tools, and other educational activities. The final rounds of the contest will take place June 9-13 at the University of Maryland, College Park. This year, Ancestry will award the prize to the winner of the Senior Individual Exhibit category.

Facing History & Ourselves Partnership

For the past 3 years Ancestry has partnered with Facing History & Ourselves – a global organization that uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Check out this new video to learn more about the important work Facing History & Ourselves is leading to bring primary sources to life in the classroom.

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Webinar

Ancestry is proud to partner with Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation to host engaging and educational community webinars. We encourage you to tune in on June 12 for a session on How to Make a Family Tree with Ancestry genealogist Crista Cowan. Register here.

New State Resources

 Use the Power Library link on the right to access all the resources. Here is what was just added. Clicking on the link may not work until you log in using the Power Library button.

• National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-2020 (GALE)
• Time Magazine Archive 1923-2000 (EBSCO) 
• Introduction to U.S. History: Slavery in America (GALE) 
• Introduction to U.S. History: The American Revolution (GALE) 
• Introduction to U.S. History: The Civil War (GALE) 

New Resource

 

Check out Ground News - https://ground.news/ This resource provides a rating on political bias. This, along with other sources is posted on the right.

AI or Human?

 

Given all the talk about AI and AI generated content, how good at you at spotting the difference?

https://ai-or-human.github.io/

Carnegie Library Teenspace

 Looking for something to do downtown after school? Want to hang out in a safe space with your friends? Check out the Teenspace at the Downtown branch of the Carnegie Library. Use your City High ID to get a library card.

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Winter Break

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Banned Book Week 2023

 

 

Free Digital Lessons

 

Digital Academy. The Digital Academy is a new large scale digital learning platform of over 8,000 courses in the latest technology trends and professional soft skills. Free for all digital learners – and accessible anytime and anywhere.

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Pride Month, Juneteenth, and Immigrant Heritage Month

Learn about the history of the LGBTQ+ movement from the History Channel.

Happy Immigrant Heritage Month!   There are now 100 million forcibly displaced people around the world—more than at any time in modern history. Immigrants and refugees make incredible contributions to our society. This month, and every month, we celebrate immigrants and welcome them into our Pittsburgh community!

Explore the digital exhibit from the National Museum of African American History and Culture  Juneteenth - Senses of Freedom: Exploring the Tastes, Sounds and Experiences of an African American Celebration

 

 

Celebrate Women's History Month with Blackout Poetry

What is Blackout Poetry? 

There's an old legend that when Michelangelo was asked how he made his exquisite statue of David, he answered that he just chipped away everything that didn't look like David. He never actually said this, but that's okay, because it's the perfect way to explain blackout poetry.

In blackout poetry, you take a page of text – say, from a book or a magazine – and you black out everything that doesn't look like poetry to you. And when you're done? Poetry! You can add additional art details like this example from the New York Times poetry contest.

How do you create blackout poetry?

You can use printed text and marker. This allows you to add additional artist details like above.

To create digitally, you can go to the Blackout Poetry Maker.

• Choose a source! They provide some examples in the left column of that page, and we have some additional suggestions below. These are just ideas - paste in whatever you'd like!
• Click on all the words you want to keep. Changed your mind about a word? Just click on it again to unselect it.
• When you're done, click on the black out. button below the text.
• Not happy with the results? Just click reset.
• Click on the Render square button; it will show you your poem as an image file. Right click (or control-click on a Mac) and select Save image as. Send a copy to library@cityhigh.org

Project Gutenberg is a website that gathers books and other texts that are in the public domain. That means that you can legally use any of the texts - no need to worry about copyright issues! 

In honor of Women's History month, the Penfield Library picked a few books you might want to use for your blackout poetry.

• A Daughter of the Samurai By Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
• Violets and Other Tales By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
• The Letters of Jane Austen
• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands By Mary Seacole
• Radio-Active Substances By Marie Curie
• Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Woolf
• Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted By Frances E.W. Harper
• Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
• History of Woman Suffrage, New York (Chapter XXXVII)
• Women of History
• The Women's Bible By Elizabeth Cady Stanton

(adapted from Penfield Library - https://libraryguides.oswego.edu/blackoutpoetry)

 

 

 

Native American Heritage Month

 

Hispanic Heritage Month Winners