CELEBRATE INT'L EDUCATION WEEK

Celebrate International Education Week
with your students at
Holiday Folk Fair Education Day [for 4th-8th grades)
November 21, 2008
Themes: Celebrate the Language of Culture
International Year of the Potato and the International Polar Year

4th to 8th Grades
Wisconsin State Fair Park
Friday, November 21, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Students will have the opportunity to personally experience global connections through ethnic displays, workshops, mini-language classes, demonstrations, music and dance performances, foods and a marketplace.
Participation in Education Day includes: student passports, three-day wrist tickets and teacher curriculum materials and orientation.

REGISTRATION & TICKET ORDER FORM are online at:
http://www.folkfair.org/education_day.html
INCENTIVE : One free ticket will be provided for every order of 25 tickets purchased before 5:00 P.M. on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. (A three-day wrist ticket price is $6.00.)
The required teacher orientations, are tentatively scheduled for Thursday, October 30 - 4:00 P.M. and Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 9:30 A.M., and will be convened at:
International Institute of Wisconsin
1110 North Old World Third Street - Suite 420, Milwaukee, WI 53203.

For additional information contact:
International Institute of Wisconsin
Tel: 414/225-6225, Fax: 414/225-6235
or visit our web site at www.folkfair.org or email: folkfair@execpc.com
Holiday Folk Fair International is produced by International Institute Of Wisconsin.

PROMOTE to your students!

No matter what one's viewpoint or opinion please remind your students to celebrate their freedom to read Sept. 27th – Oct. 4th by checking out a book from the UWM Libraries. Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

The Curriculum Library provides handouts both at the Library and on our web page at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/curriculum/banned08.doc or,visit http://www.ala.org/bbooks to view look at the list of this year’s top 10,the top 100 and additional information.

The Curriculum Library is located on the 2nd floor, east wing

"WHOEVER WOULD OVERTHROW THE LIBERTY OF A NATION MUST BEGIN BY SUBDUING THE FREENESS OF SPEECH" Benjamin Franklin

Judy Blume in Madison!

CCBC 2008 CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW LECTURE WITH JUDY BLUME

Author Judy Blume will deliver the 11th annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday evening, October 15, at the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus. Judy Blume is the author of many books for children and teenagers, including "Superfudge," "Double Fudge," and "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” for younger readers; "Blubber" and "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" for older children and young teens; and the groundbreaking "Forever" for older teens. Often funny and always fiercely honest, her works have resonated with generations of readers while achieving critical acclaim, and sometimes the attention of would-be censors. A passionate defender of the First Amendment rights of youth, she edited "Places I Never Meant To Be," an anthology of short stories written by authors of challenged books. For the first time, this year's Zolotow lecture will be a ticketed event. The tickets are free and will be available to the general public at the Wisconsin Union
Theater Box Office after September 8.

READ A BANNED BOOK!

Check out a Banned Book!

Celebrate your freedom to read Sept. 27th – Oct. 4th by checking out a book from the UWM Libraries. Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

Why is the week called "Banned Books Week" instead of "Challenged Books Week," since the majority of the books featured during the week are not banned, but "merely" challenged? Because a challenge is an attempt to ban or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A successful challenge would result in materials being banned or restricted.

Although they were the targets of attempted bannings, most of the books featured on the lists were not banned, thanks to the efforts of librarians to maintain them in their collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged – and possibly restricted – if not for the efforts of librarians, teachers, and booksellers who use Banned Books Week to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights. The American Library Association

HOW MANY BANNED BOOKS HAVE YOU READ ???

Take one of our Curriculum Library handouts and find out!
or visit http://www.ala.org/bbooks or look at the list of this year’s top 10 and the top 100 at
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/curriculum/banned08.doc

The Curriculum Library is located on the 2nd floor, east wing

"WHOEVER WOULD OVERTHROW THE LIBERTY OF A NATION MUST BEGIN BY SUBDUING THE FREENESS OF SPEECH" Benjamin Franklin

UWM Libraries USED BOOK SALE!

The Friends of the UWM Golda Meir Library will hold a used book sale Monday, Sept. 22 through Wednesday, Sept. 24.

Over 6,000 works in a wide variety of genres--contemporary fiction, foreign languages, history, literature, poetry, and political science--will be on sale, as well as textbooks on various subjects and classical LP records.

On Monday Sept. 22nd the sale is OPEN TO UWM STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF ONLY, with valid ID, from Noon - 6pm !!!

The sale opens to the public on Tuesday, Sept. 23, and runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Monday and Tuesday, most hardcovers will be $3, and most paperbacks and records will be $1. There will also be a $.25 per item table.

On Wednesday, Sept. 24, the sale will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., most hardcovers will be $1.50, and most paperbacks and records $.50. From 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., a bag of books will cost just $5 to $1, depending on the hour of the afternoon.

The sale will be held in the UWM Golda Meir Library's fourth floor Conference Center, 2311 E. Hartford Avenue.

All proceeds from the sale benefit the UWM Libraries. Anyone interested in donating books, music recordings, and videos to the UWM Libraries, either for possible addition to the Libraries' holdings or for the book sale, should contact Janet Padway at (414) 229-6458.

For more information about the sale, call (414) 229-4786.

Great Resource for k-12 Teachers

If you have never visited the EDB site (Educational Communications Board) you should! Great links to web sites on a variety of K-12 topics from Shakespeare to Geology. Below is their latest message regarding the newest "surf report".

Welcome back to school! If you plan to use Election 2008 as a teachable moment, we'd like to help you with a list of web sites to use with your students. From election history to current events, mock elections to the real thing, one of these sites is bound to catch your fancy or engage your students. Surf on over and start exploring now, or bookmark it for later use:
http://explore.ecb.org/surf/surf_report?subject=59