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What’s to like about MV, in photos
The assignment: if you were going to show a stranger to Martha’s Vineyard something about the island, what would you share? Bhrenda Galdino, Gabriel Silva, Jessica Medeiros, Sayra Fernandes, and Thifane Souza took these photos. A few are below, and the rest are on Instagram. Enjoy!
Cape Cod School Days Special Olympics: Trailer
Thanks to Sheron DeMedeiros who made this video as part of her independent project in the library.
Recommended Summer Reading
All of these books were chosen by students in Mr. Wilson’s and Ms. Hennigan’s classes. The ones that are linked are in the library. Check them out!
Abundance of Katherines (Green)
Asylum (Roux)
Catching Fire (Collins)
Celestine Prophecy
Crank (Hopkins)
Dawn (Wiesel)
Dead Zone (King)
Dirt Bikes, Drones and Other Ways to Fly (Wesselhoeft)
Dorothy Must Die (Paige)
Fan Girl (Rowell)
Fault in Our Stars (Green)
Foul Trouble (Feinstein)
Gathering Blue (Lowry)
Girl Interrupted (Kaysen)
Gone Girl (Flynn)
Graceling (Cashore)
Graveyard Book (Gaiman)
Half Bad (Green)
Hero (Lupica)
Invitation Only (Kate)
It (King)
It’s a funny kind of story (Vizzini)
Jay’s Journal (Anonymous)
Legend (Lu)
Lightning Thief (Riordan)
Looking for Alaska (Green)
The Martian (Weir)
Never Fall Down (McCormick)
Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman)
Panic (Oliver)
Paper Towns (Green)
QB 1 (Lupica)
Raft (Bodeen)
Regarding Jeffrey (Reece)
Revived (Patrick)
Secret Life of Bees (Kidd)
Slam (Myers)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Why Soccer Matters (Pelé)
Speak (Anderson)
Stolen (Christopher)
The Escape (Baldacci)
The Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake streamline baby (Wolfe)
The Life of PI (Martel)
The Lovely Bones (
The Maze Runner (Dashner)
The Mist (King)
The Other Side of the Island
The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game (Feinstein)
The Ruining (Collomore)
Things Not Seen (Clements)
Thirteen Reasons Why (Asher)
Valhalla Rising (Cussler)
Holocaust Survivor Sami Steigmann: “By Forgiving Others, You Forgive Yourself”
MVRHS students had the extraordinary fortune to meet Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann on Tuesday, May 12th. In a series of talks to large groups of students in the library, he greatly impressed everyone. In spite of his life story, being a child of Holocaust survivors and a Holocaust survivor himself, he remains positive. “In every calamity there is an opportunity.” Special thanks to Dr. Elaine Weintraub and her organizing committee for inviting him to MVRHS. The organizing committee: Jason Lages, Jr. Teles, Gabe Nunes, Michael Morris, Thomas O’Shaughnessy and Annie Ollen.
Geological discoveries at the Gay Head Lighthouse
Thanks to an invitation by Chris Connors, on Thursday June 11th, we had the fortune to meet research geologist Byron Stone, Ph.D. of the U.S. Geological Survey. Dr. Stone was the chief geologist at the 135-foot moving of the Gay Head Lighthouse. His research helped determine the most effective new location for the lighthouse. In unearthing the area around the lighthouse, several important geological discoveries were made, including a new understanding of the age of these glacial deposits, and a theory about what the land may have looked like many thousands of years ago.