So, you want to add a song to your Power Point/Google Slides project...or maybe you want to use pictures of Greece you found on the internet for your research project....came across a great term paper while you were looking for information for your own project, and you figured you'd just copy and paste most of that into your paper????? Does any of this sound like you? If so, you could be breaking the law! Yes, it is against Copyright Law to take something and use it for a school project, paper, art project etc. There are cases in which this is perfectly ok to do provided you get permission from the original owner to use it. Then, you must give credit to that person/artist and not try to pass it off as original work. Please take a look at this checklist if you find yourself wondering about Copyright.
_ I was very happy to see so many of my wonderful students taking the AP exams in the library during the past two weeks. Some of you I saw taking 2 and 3 tests! They are a challenging exam, and even if you don't pass with flying colors, (or maybe you will!) you've pushed yourselves, so congratulations! From where I could see, all of you seemed to be deep in thought and concentration. These are skills that will serve you well in college and beyond. Way to go kids!
Here is a listing from Kirkus Reviews of their selections for the best books of 2014 in the area of Teen Fiction/Young Adult Literature. What do you think? Have you read any of them?
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2014/section/teen/ I loved The Diviners, by Libba Bray. Here is a summary...'Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.' It is great book! Bray is also the author of Going Bovine and Beauty Queens, which is not about beauty queens.
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