April Olorunfemi Collection Development Assignment FRIT 7134-Spring 2011 March 5, 2011

SITE AND LEARNERS I am a teacher in a suburban school system approximately 20 miles west of the Atlanta metropolitan area in Lithia Springs, GA, specifically Douglas County. At Turner Middle School were are a diverse population currently in our first year of Federal Title 1/ low-income status. Turner Middle School is situated off a main interstate and has a very high transient rate and a 60% poverty rate. Many of the 80% of our students who qualify for free or reduced lunch live in the apartment complexes or surrounding mobile parks that dominate our schools district. A direct contributor of the revolving door of registrations and withdrawals we see month after month. Currently the district boasts approximately 24, 500 students in its 20 elementary schools, 8 middle schools and 4 high schools, 1 College and Career Institute and 1 Performance Learning Center. In the next two years the district plans to open the doors of its fifth high school and it twenty-first elementary school. Douglas County School District is the countys largest employer with over 3, 360 employees. Many of whom matriculated through the Douglas County School System and have lived there most of their lives On October 17, 1870 Douglas County was created. During The Reconstruction Period that followed the Civil War, Douglas County was first named for African-American abolitionist, Fredrick Douglass. This was later changed in honor of Stephen A. Douglas, a Senator from Illinois who opposed Abraham Lincolns Presidency when local control of the General Assembly became established. It is the 138th of Georgia 159 counties. According to the census bureau, Douglas Countys 2009 population estimate is 129, 703. The ethnic breakdown of the current population

reflects the growing diversity of the schools. Sixty-one percent of the population is white, thirty seven percent is African-American, six percent is Hispanic, with less than three percent being Asian or multiethnic. Turner Middle School serves approximately 656 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders. There are approximately 236 sixth-grade students, 212 seventh- grade students, and 208 eighth-grade students. All grade levels have 2 content area teachers per subject. We are located directly across from one of the countys 2 public libraries in one of the counties earliest erected sites. There are 52 certified teachers, 1 Principal, 2 Assistant Principals, 1 Administrative Assistant, 3 office personnel, and 24 additional support staff. Out of 476 middle schools Turner, ranks 317 in the state of Georgia with approximately an eighty percent achievement rate in reading and math on the CRCT. The school library media center is located at the intersection of the font office and the schools front door. It is a fairly small media center the is ran by a fulltime media specialist, a full time media clerk, and 3 student media aides who assist in the media center for one who connections period everyday. This particular media center boasts to be the countys only all -male media center, and is changing every year. The collection has a little over 8000 titles (approximately 12 books per student) with 10 desktop computers for research, AR, a small media room for media aides to record the morning announcements, 213 titles in the audiovisual collection. Graphic novel titles are the newest genre to the schools collection literature collection. The media center averages approximately 70 checkouts per day. Sixth-grade reading teachers go to the media center every other Friday to checkout and renew AR books. The Reading bowl team took third place in the middle school division. The media center hosts the schools website and promotes its online resources such as Destiny Quest Online Catalog, AR lists, and the limited selection of available e-books. All classrooms and portable learning units are equipped with a LCD projector and screen for instruction purposes. The number of computers per classroom varies but on average there are 3 per class. There are 2 permanent computer labs on site, one of which teachers sign up to use and the other one is used as a classroom for the Careers and Technology connections

class. The school utilizes the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework to identify and intervene for students at risk for failing the CRCT for a specific content areas, Reading, Math, and Language Arts. STAR reading is used to identify the reading levels of all students 3 times a year. There is a growing ESOL population of students, approximately 23 taught by one ESOL teacher. The reading level of Turner Students is as varied as the students themselves. The demographics of Turner Middle School are approximately twenty-eight percent Caucasian students, thirty-five percent African-American students, twenty-seven percent Hispanic, seven percent multiethnic, one percent American Islander, one percent Asian, and one percent of other ethnicities. CURRICULUM REVIEW In order to be as expansive as I could for this assignment I decided to increase the overall collection of the media center with as many titles and resources as I could. The content area that would best allow me to do so is Reading. I will focus specifically on 6th grade Reading for the purpose of this assignment because all of the academic core-content areas, Math; Science, Social Studies; and Language Arts, there are reading components. Also, in the Douglas County School system Reading is a separate academic content area class. I have placed an emphasis on multicultural literature with Science, and Social Studies Themes to reflect and support the schools diverse community population and interests. The following are the dominant standards that are addressed within the collection development: Dominant Standard-Reading: Georgia Performance Standards: ELA6RC3 The student acquires new vocabulary in each content area and uses it correctly. The student a. Demonstrates an understanding of contextual vocabulary in various subjects. b. Uses content vocabulary in writing and speaking. c. Explores understanding of new words found in subject area texts RELATED TASK and ASSESSMENTS-Creating Book Reports (mobile, t-shirts, book-in-a-bag);

Present character speeches/Role Playing, Create a classroom glossary for literary vocabulary and new vocabulary in contexts, Write peer book reviews for the schools media center website

ELA6RC4 The student establishes a context for information acquired by reading across subject areas. The student a. Explores life experiences related to subject area content. b. Discusses in both writing and speaking how certain words and concepts relate to multiple subjects. c. Determines strategies for finding content and contextual meaning for unfamiliar words or concepts. RELATED TASK and ASSESSMENTS-Students re-write the ending of a book adding themselves as a character, Students hold fireside chats to discuss how they relate to the characters within a book, Students create movie trailer posters for the books to advertise them.

Georgia Performance Standard: ELA6R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts. For informational texts, the student reads and comprehends in order to develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that: a. Analyzes common textual features to obtain information (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences, introduction, conclusion, footnotes, index, bibliography). b. Identifies and uses knowledge of common graphic features to draw conclusions and make judgments (e.g., graphic organizers, diagrams, captions, illustrations). RELATED TASK and ASSESSMENTS-Students use a graphic organizer to identify topics within a book that relates to other content areas themes, students create a group annotated summary/bibliography for classroom book suggestions and class picks,

Secondary Standards-Social Studies: Georgia Performance Standard: SS6RC1 Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by: a. Reading in All Curriculum Areas b. Discussing books a. Discuss messages and themes from books in all subject areas. Respond to a variety of texts in multiple modes of discourse. S6E3. Students will recognize the significant role of water in earth processes. a. Explain that a large portion of the Earths surface is water, consisting of oceans, rivers, lakes, underground water, and ice. Secondary Standards-Science: Georgia Performance Standard: S6E6. Students will describe various sources of energy and with their uses and conservation. b. Identify renewable and nonrenewable resources

S6E1. Students will explore current scientific views of the universe and how those views evolved. a. Relate the Nature of Science to the progression of basic historical scientific models (geocentric, heliocentric) as they describe our solar system, and the Big Bang as it describes the formation of the universe. b. Describe the position of the solar system in the Milky Way galaxy and the universe. c. Compare and contrast the planets in terms of Size relative to the earth Surface and atmospheric features Relative distance from the sun Ability to support life d. Explain the motion of objects in the day/night sky in terms of relative position. e. Explain that gravity is the force that governs the motion in the solar system. f. Describe the characteristics of comets, asteroids, and meteors. RELATED TASK and ASSESSMENTS- Students will explore the various themes of literature within their reading. Examples of Titles used for the inclusion of Science and Social Studies Content are as follows: Picture Book Cherry, L. (1992). A river ran wild: An environmental history. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Annotation: An initial primitive account of the origin of life and how a river has birthed so many things to different cultures. Nashua (Nash-a-way) River was the settling of a Native American group who respected the land, river and forest as well as its inhabitants. While using what they need, the Native Americans are using wisdom and thankfulness to maintain the Nashuas newly built community. They became in tune with the land and saw a rhythm in their lives with the seasons. With this rhythm brought change and new settlers and traders. What began as a harmonious relationship quickly became the settlers using more than was needed to live. This essential taking from and not giving to the land as well as the welcoming of a revolution brought construction, commerce and eventually became a place that no longer reflection it earlier people and way of life. An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious cleanup that revitalized it. Georgia Performance Standards: S6E3. Students will recognize the significant role of water in earth processes. a. Explain that a large portion of the Earths surface is water, consisting of oceans, rivers, lakes, underground water, and ice. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror L'Engle, M. (1962). A Wrinkle in Time. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Annotation: A Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, A Wrinkle in Time, is an adventurous story of mystery and intellect. In the novel the concept of a tesseract functions more or less like what in modern science fiction is called a space warp or a wormhole, a portal from one area of space to another, which is possible through the bending of the structure of the space-time continuum. The reader is placed in the lives of a family of scientist who meet and interact with dynamic and well-developed signature characters that assist the family in one way or another to complete the mission of saving the father of the family. This book has been considered inappropriate for schools numerous times for its religious and supernatural references but is still considered as classic childrens literature. The setting locations mentioned in the book are as equally unique as the situations they encounter and include Connecticut, other planets including Ixchel, Camazotz, and Uriel. This book will challenge its reader on many level for its explorational content, supernatural character beings as well as it religious text. Georgia Performance Standard: S6E1. Students will explore current scientific views of the universe and how those views evolved. a. Relate the Nature of Science to the progression of basic historical scientific models (geocentric, heliocentric) as they describe our solar system, and the Big Bang as it describes the formation of the universe. b. Describe the position of the solar system in the Milky Way galaxy and the universe. c. Compare and contrast the planets in terms of Size relative to the earth Surface and atmospheric features Relative distance from the sun Ability to support life

d. Explain the motion of objects in the day/night sky in terms of relative position. e. Explain that gravity is the force that governs the motion in the solar system. f. Describe the characteristics of comets, asteroids, and meteors. Butler, O. E. (1993). Parable of the Sower. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. Annotation: The recipient of the Nebula Award, The Parable of the Sower is a dynamic science fiction novel with a strong female heroine, Lauren, whose hyperempathy, the ability to feel the perceived pain and other sensations of others, is both a blessing/necessity and a nuisance. This setting begins in a future Los Angeles community in the midst of civil turmoil. The predecessor to Parable of Talents, we find Lauren, a young adult in the beginning phases of her religion Earthseed. The world outside of her gated community is becoming a more viscous one as civil society is plagued by poverty, military and political corruption. She has been prepared for the worst and has honed her survival skills day by day. The need to secure the safety her gated community becomes a joint effort of the community leaders and everyone plays a role. When the communitys safety is compromised, Lauren finds her family scattered. With nothing left but Earthseed and her survival skills carefully imparted by her father and mother figure, Lauren has to make mature decisions if she wants to survive. She travels north with some survivors to try to start a community where her religion, called Earthseed, can grow. Georgia Performance Standard: S6E6. Students will describe various sources of energy and with their uses and conservation. b. Identify renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Contemporary Realistic Fiction Fleischman, P., & Pedersen, J. (1997). Seedfolks. New York: HarperCollins. Annotation: Seedfolks is a about a neighborhood that transformed when a young girl plants a few lima beans in an abandoned lot. This junk lot becomes the hub of the community and gives all members a sense of ownership and builds the pride and dignity of the community and the individuals who plant there, which is a diverse as the things the characters all plant there. This book has rich character expression and every chapter belongs to the character. Little by little, more people from around the neighborhood get involved. Many bring seeds of their own and start gardens. Together they build a story of this place they are located, each with different issues, goals and challenges, all of which are culturally connected. The book exposes the innate prejudices, fears and perceptions we all have and eloquently ties the themes of community, sharing, respect, diversity and tolerance into lovely potpourri.

Georgia Performance Standard: SS6RC1 Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by: a. Reading in All Curriculum Areas b. Discussing books b. Discuss messages and themes from books in all subject areas. Respond to a variety of texts in multiple modes of discourse.

COLLECTION EVALUATION and SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS My classroom is located right next door to the media center. I consider this on of my perks. The 8,000 titles are arranged alphabetically on all walls. The dominant wall is fiction, arranged by author. The AR titles are marked on the spine of the fiction books. Immediately following the fiction is nonfiction section. I considered this to be a very traditional school library media center. The reference section is closer towards the center of the nonfiction wall on a wide bookshelf. It is not on a wall, but almost serves as a divider for a small section of seating. The computers give the center of the room a perimeter and are arranged by threes. The tables in the media center are in good condition. The chairs are nicely cushioned and padded and it is a fairly comfortable. Directly aligned with the library media center entrance is the checkout. There are two doors directly facing each other on either side of the room. It reminds me of a Tee shirt. After utilizing the Destiny Quest Online Tool, asking my media specialist for specific titles, and searching the shelves, I found that there is a great room for improvement. Many of the books have been bound and rebounded in order to keep them in decent shape. They were in overall good condition for the amount of times they have been checked out and the limited number of titles we have. I have also seen a growing number of shiny, new, hardback titles. The section that seemed to be in the most dire of straights was the nonfiction section. This section has been the most weeded because the information grows obsolete quickly and there are limited resources for funding outside of his budget for necessities. The literature that we had on hand in the media center seemed to deal with urban issues of inner city kids and was appropriate for our higher level readers and grade levels. I wanted to promote a variety of text and genres in which students would be able to connect and expand their exposure to dynamic characters they could relate to in unique settings and situations.

Titlewave (www.titlewave.com) Books FLR# Author: Title -- Publisher : Year Bnd Qty Price Extended -------------------------------------------------------------------------------15261R4 Caputo, Philip: 10,000 days of thunder : a HRD 1 21.24 21.24 history of the Vietnam War -- Atheneum Books for Young environmental history -- Harcourt Brace & Co., c1992. (974.4) 23978C1 Fleischman, Paul: Seedfolks -- HRD 1 15.89 15.89 HarperCollins, c1997. (-Fic-) 13050V3 L'Engle, Madeleine: A wrinkle in time -- FBG 1 11.96 11.96 Square Fish ,Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, c1962. (-Fic-) 8 titles (qty 8) Total Guaranteed Title Price $123.70 eBooks FLR# Author: Title -- Publisher : Year Bnd Qty Price Extended -------------------------------------------------------------------------------53027Q9 Lowry, Lois: Number the stars -- Houghton EBK 1 16.00 16.00 Mifflin, c1989. (-Fic-) 1 titles (qty 1) Total Guaranteed eBook Price $16.00 Audiovisual FLR# Author: Title -- Publisher : Year Fmt Qty Price Extended -------------------------------------------------------------------------------4159BR5 Heller, Ruth: Cache of Jewels -- Spoken RAL 1 17.95 17.95 Arts Media. (-E-) 40BFCX8 Fleischman, Paul.: Joyful noise : poems PLA 1 51.75 51.75 for two voices [electronic resource] -- Findaway World , Recorded Books, Chagrin Falls, Ohio : Prince Frederick, MD : c2008. (811.54) <!> WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts | Not for children under 3 yrs. 45799Q1 Fleischman, Paul.: Seedfolks [sound CD 1 24.95 24.95 recording] -- Audio Bookshelf, Northport, ME : p2003. (-Fic-)

4977CN4 Keller, Helen: The Story of My Life -- CD 1 39.99 39.99 Tantor Media. (362.4) 4 titles (qty 4) Total Guaranteed A/V Media Price $134.64

Total Books (Qty.) 8 (8) $123.70 Total eBooks (Qty.) 1 (1) $16.00 Total A/V titles (Qty.) 4 (4) $134.64 Total cataloging and processing for Books $9.12 Total cataloging and processing for Audiovisual TBD* Grand Total $283.46*

Title Wave Title Analysis

Scholastic (www.scholastic.com) ...And Now Miguel Joseph Krumgold Paperback Book 12 Brown Boys Omar Tyree Paperback Book ABeCedarios Cynthia Weill Paperback Book Abraham's Battle Sara Banks 6-7 $5.99 $4.49 fiction Fic

$5.95 $4.46 7-9 fiction

$4.50 $3.37 K nonfiction NF

$4.95 $3.71

Paperback Book 5-6 fiction Fic American Indian Foods Jay Miller $6.95 $4.86 Paperback 3-5 The Ancient Celts Patricia Calvert nonfiction 641.592 1996

$9.95 $6.96 2005

Paperback 6-8 nonfiction 930 The Ancient Kushites Liz Sonneborn $9.95 $6.96 Paperback Book 6-8 nonfiction And Not Afraid to Dare Tonya Bolden $5.95 $4.46 Paperback Book 6-9 nonfiction And the Winner Is... LL Cool J $3.95 $2.96 Paperback Book 3-4 fiction Fic Black Diamond Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack

NF

NF

$5.99 $4.49

Paperback Book 5-7 nonfiction NF The Blind Men and the Elephant Karen Backstein $3.99 $2.99 Paperback Book 1-3 fiction Fic Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) Lisa Yee $5.99 $4.49 Paperback Book 4-5 fiction Fic Brand New School, Brave New Ruby

Derrick Barnes Paperback Book Brothers & Sisters Ellen Senisi Paperback Book Bull Run Paul Fleischman Paperback Book The Bully Paul Langan Paperback Book Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry 2-4

$4.99 $3.74 fiction Fic

$3.95 $2.96 P-2 nonfiction $4.95 $3.71 5-6 fiction Fic NF

$3.99 $2.99 9 fiction Fic $4.95 $3.71

Paperback Book 5-7 fiction Fic Can You Say Peace? Karen Katz $4.95 $3.71 Paperback Book K fiction Fic Carlos and the Cornfield Jan Stevens $5.95 $4.46 Paperback Book 4 fiction Fic The Case of the Missing Trophy Angela Medearis $3.99 $2.99 Paperback Book The Champ Tonya Bolden Paperback Book The Cherokee Andrew Santella 3-5 fiction Fic

$6.95 $5.21 4-6 nonfiction $6.95 $4.86 2001 NF

Paperback 3-5 nonfiction 970.004 Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul Jack Canfield $13.95 $10.46 Paperback Book 5-8 Children of the Wild West Russell Freedman Paperback Book City David Macaulay 4-7 nonfiction $8.95 $6.71 nonfiction $10.95 $8.21 NF NF

Paperback Book 5-8 Civil Rights Marches Linda & Charles George Paperback Book The Climb Gordon Korman Paperback Book Cockroach Cooties Laurence Yep Paperback Book Color Me Dark Patricia McKissack Paperback Book Confetti Girl Diana Lopez Paperback Book The Contest Gordon Korman Paperback Book Cousins Virginia Hamilton Paperback Book Cuentos con sazn Lulu Delacre Paperback Book Curveball Rich Wallace 5-6

nonfiction

NF

$5.95 $4.16 nonfiction $5.99 $4.49 NF

6-8

fiction Fic

$5.95 $4.46 4-6 fiction Fic $6.95 $5.21 6-8 fiction Fic

$5.95 $4.46 5-7 fiction Fic $5.99 $4.49 6-8 fiction Fic $4.99 $3.74 6-7 fiction Fic

$4.99 $3.74 5-6 fiction Fic

$4.95 $3.71 fiction Fic $6.95 $5.21 nonfiction $5.99 $4.49 NF

Paperback Book 6 D is for Drinking Gourd Nancy Sanders Paperback Book The Danger Gordon Korman 4-6

Paperback Book 5-7 fiction Fic Daniel Alexander Payne Rudine Bishop $6.95 $5.21 Paperback Book Dare to Dream 5-7 nonfiction NF

Angela Medearis

$3.95 $2.96 NF

Paperback Book 4-5 nonfiction Darkness over Denmark Ellen Levine $5.95 $4.46 Paperback Book Davy Crockett George Sullivan Paperback Book 6-9 nonfiction $5.99 $4.49 4-6 nonfiction

NF

NF

The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. was Shot Jim Haskins $5.99 $4.49 Paperback Book 5-8 nonfiction NF The Day the Women Got the Vote George Sullivan $6.95 $5.21 Paperback Book Dolphin Song Lauren St. John Paperback Book Double Dutch Sharon Draper Paperback Book Double Fake Rich Wallace Paperback Book Dragonwings Laurence Yep Paperback Book The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes 5-7 nonfiction $6.95 $5.21 6-8 fiction Fic NF

$5.99 $4.49 6-9 fiction Fic

$4.95 $3.71 6 fiction Fic

$6.95 $5.21 5-7 fiction Fic $6.95 $5.21

Paperback Book 4-8 fiction Fic Dreaming of America Eve Bunting $5.95 $4.46 Paperback Book 3-5 The Drum Beats On Janelle Cherrington Paperback Book Drum Beats Sharon Draper 4 fiction Fic $3.99 $2.99 fiction Fic

$3.95 $2.96

Paperback Book Duke Ellington Andrea Pinkney Paperback Book Eagle Song Joseph Bruchac

5-6

fiction Fic $5.95 $4.46

nonfiction $4.95 $3.71

NF

Paperback Book 4-5 fiction Fic Emergency Quarterback Rich Wallace $4.95 $3.71 Paperback Book Enemies of Slavery David Adler Paperback Book Escape to Freedom Ossie Davis Paperback Book Esperanza Rising Pam Ryan 6 fiction Fic

$5.95 $4.46 3-5 nonfiction NF

$3.95 $2.96 5-7 fiction Fic

$6.99 $5.24

Paperback Book 5-8 fiction Fic Extraordinary People of the Civil Rights Movement Sheila and P. Stephen Hardy $16.95 $11.86 Paperback 6-up Fast Forwards Paul Ladewski nonfiction $3.99 $2.99 nonfiction $5.95 $4.46 NF 323.092 2007

Paperback Book 5 Feathers Jacqueline Woodson

Paperback Book 5-7 fiction Fic The Firework-Maker's Daughter Philip Pullman $5.99 $4.49 Paperback Book 4-6 fiction Fic

The Forgotten Heroes Clinton Cox $4.50 $3.37 Paperback Book 6-H nonfiction NF Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Harriet Robinet $4.95 $3.71

Paperback Book Fourth-Grade Fuss Johanna Hurwitz Paperback Book Frederick Douglass Camilla Wilson Paperback Book Free Baseball Sue Corbett Paperback Book Freedom Train Dorothy Sterling Paperback Book Get on Board Jim Haskins

5-7

fiction Fic $4.95 $3.71

3-5

fiction Fic $4.95 $3.71

nonfiction

NF

$5.95 $4.46 5-6 fiction Fic $5.99 $4.49 5-6 nonfiction NF

$5.95 $4.46 NF

Paperback Book 5-7 nonfiction Get On Out of Here, Philip Hall Bette Greene $5.95 $4.46 Paperback Book Totals: $414.50 6 fiction Fic $307.85

www.amazon.com Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology Amazon.com 139.00 Sony HDR-CX130 Handycam Camcorder (Black) Sony- 448.00 Super Size Me (Educational Version) (WS) 44.99 Morgan Spurlock (Actor), Morgan Spurlock (Director) | Rated: PG | Format: DVD NEW JVC XVBP11 All Multi Region Code Free DVD BLU RAY Player. Plays all region DVD 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 PAL or NTSC and Zone A Blu Rays. (Free HDMI Cable) by JVC 299.00 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2-Disc Special Collector's Edition) 31.49 Don't Give It Away! : A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women [Paperback] 10.39 Panasonic Interactive Panaboard UB-8325 - Whiteboard - 52 x 33 in - wired USB 1995.95 Amazon.com = 2968.00 Total Spent on Collection Development=3229.64 BUDGET SUMMARY I sought to provide and promote relevant and engaging resources for reading that addressed the divers population of the school and its surrounding community. I thought the implementation of technology resources and equipment would help our student to think bigger that the world outside of their front door. It is my goal the ordering of these resources promotes innovation within classroom teachers as they seek to bring rigorous and engaging instruction our children desperately need.