April is School Library Media Month

April 13 - 19 is National Library Week

April 15 is National Library Workers Day

April 17 is Support Teen Literature Day

Many school library media programs celebrate the month of April as School Library Media Month in conjunction with National Library Week.  National School Library Media Month and National Library Week are great times to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries, school libraries, and librarians.  Celebrate this month (and every month!) by visiting your public or school library.

The Jacksonville Middle School for Boys Speech/Drama class will begin working on a class project that surrounds the long struggle of the Little Rock Nine. Each student in the class will conduct a character analysis of a key person that impacted the Central High Crisis. Students will present their research during an exhibit titled, "Then and Now: In the Eyes of the Boys" on May 15, 2008. The class will take field trips to two museums. The purpose of the museum visits are for students to get an "up close and personal" perspective of the Civil Rights Movement.  Funding for this project was provided from a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.

National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee (March 22, 2008)
Central High National Historic Site in Little Rock, AR (April 5, 2008)

Our mentoring program features adult leaders from the business, social, and academic world.  Our primary goal for this program is to create better citizens and responsible young adult leaders for our community.  The secondary goal for students is to learn and exercise civic, social, and moral responsibility.  This will encourage these young men to become partners in the growth and development of this community.

To hear assignments from our teachers, click on the teacher's name in the list below to link to an mp3 recording of their assignments.

Anderson                         Hickingbotham                        Richards