Portable Headphones Needed

Evidently Tina Murray is taking care of this. Thanks!

We need a class set of portable headphones that students can use to complete projects and assignments on the Writing Center computers. Although many of our students have portable music devices with headphones or earbuds, not all of our students are in that luxury position.

So, any older headphones (low end ones from Discman or boombox) that can be plugged into a computer would be greatly appreciated. We cannot use earbuds because they pose a hygiene issue.

Raffle Prizes Needed

Raffle Prizes
At the start of each quarter, we hold a student raffle during our All-School Meeting. Raffle prizes are a fun way to get students motivated and energized. Students enjoy fun “toys” (i.e., super balls, Frisbees, kites, hacky sacks, etc) as well as coupons for lunch options close to Shabazz (Culvers, Subway, Pizza Extreme). Movie passes are the most coveted prizes.

Books Needed

Multiple copies of the following titles are needed for literature circles in a new course (to be offered in Quarter 4):

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Sherman Alexie(Little, Brown, & Co 2007)

The Arrival
Shaun Tan (Scholastic, 2007)

American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang (First Second, 2006)

How the Other Half Lives
Jacob A Riis (Scholarly Pubs, 2006 – or other older editions are fine as well)

Keesha’s House
Helen Frost (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007)

Tough Boy Sonatas
Curtis Crisler (Front Street, 2007)