Be informed about who he is and what he writes about!

Think about how to ask intelligent, illuminating, respectful questions!

Visit the library's libguide to read about conservative blogger, JOHN HINDERAKER.

Read his blog and listen to his podcast.

Click here to get ready —

http://libguides.nmhschool.org/hinderaker

How to ask a question intelligently?
Just how do you ask a question that not only appears intelligent but also results in an answer that satisfies the knowledge you are seeking? Here are some tips for asking more open-minded and informed questions that will help not only you but others to comprehend information placed before you, as well as extracting more information useful to you.

Click here – http://www.wikihow.com/Ask-a-Question-Intelligently

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Biographies and Interviews

jenniferboylan.net

Jennifer Finney Boylan. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.
Gale, 2008.

Pozner, Jennifer L.  Gender immigrant: a conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan.(Interview).
The Women’s Review of Books 21.7 (April 2004): 5(3). General OneFile. Gale. 8 Apr. 2008.

Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of "She’s Not There," on her decision to change genders from male to female. (Interview)  Host David Brancaccio talks with author and professor Jennifer Finney
Boylan about the challenges and responsibilities associated with being
a transgendered person. Marketplace, American Public Media. July 31, 2003. LexisNexis. 8 Apr. 2008.

The Husband Who Became A Woman. Oprah Winfrey Show.

In the NMH Library (Click on titles to check availability.)

• I’m looking through you : growing up haunted. New York : Broadway Books, c2008.
• She’s not there : a life in two genders. New York : Broadway Books, 2004, c2003.

Get ready!

In the NMH Library    (Click on title to check call # and availability)…

Spirit and flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
New York : Knopf, 2004.

In the news…
An interview with Mr. Ault:

Crouch, Andy.  "Among the fundamentalists."  Publishers Weekly 251.30 (July 26, 2004): 52(1). General Reference Center Gold. Gale.

A book review:

Prothero, Stephen.  ‘Spirit and Flesh’: Say Amen, Somebody New York Times (Dec 5, 2004)

On the web…

James Ault Ph.D. Documentary Filmmaker.Author.Ethnographer http://www.jamesault.com/

January 21st, 2008
The Meeting: A Play by Jeff Stetson, 9:35-10:05 AM  Memorial Chapel

ON RESERVE at the NMH Library’s circulation desk.

January 22nd, 2008
State of the World Series: Kimmie Weeks ‘01, 6:45 -8 PM  Rhodes Room, Beveridge Hall

A graduate of NMH, Kimmie Weeks leads Youth Action International, a nonprofit dedicated to rebuild communities through schools, playgrounds, and business opportunities for women and children in war-torn African countries.

Read about Kimmie’s work: www.kimmieweeks.com

Learn about his work on youtube:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoJGeENIdhY

January 23rd, 2008
SLC Speaker: Prof. Sonia Sanchez, 10:50-11:50 AM  Memorial Chapel

Listen to Ms. Sanchez read her poetry : "Profile: Poetry reading by Sonia Sanchez." Weekend Edition Saturday (June 16, 2001)

Read! In the NMH Library (Click on titles to check availability)

• Does Your House Have Lions?  Beacon Press, 1997
• Homegirls & Handgrenades White Pine Press, 2007
• Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems  Beacon Press, 1998
• Sonia Sanchez [video] The Foundation, 1991
• Under a Soprano Sky Africa World Press, 1987
• Wounded in the House of a Friend Beacon Press, 1995

January 24th, 2008
Boondocks Episode: “Return of the King”, 7-8PM  Blake Student Center

In this controversial episode of the animated series, The Boondocks, Rev. Martin Luther King awakes from a coma after 32 years and finds post-September 11th America very different from the 1960s.

Read about the controversy:  Cartoon Network Defends "Boondocks" (InfoTrac) 

Listen to the NMH Jazz Ensemble Combo Performance, 5:30-7PM  Alumni Hall

The NMH Jazz Ensemble will perform during Thursday dinner.

Rick Lussen

Mr. Lussen will speak on complexities of history, life, and culture in post-Soviet Georgia. After teaching in the NMH History department  for over 20 years, Mr. Lussen assumed the Principal at Tbilisi’s American Academy in the Republic of Georgia.

WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2007, at 6:45 P.M.
WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge

DOWNLOAD ELECTION RESULTS, COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: georgia_news_digest_010808.pdf

Read about the country…

• "Georgia"  Encyclopædia Britannica.
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  Online School Edition. document.write(new Date().getDate());8 document.write(mm[new Date().getMonth()][0]);Jan. document.write(new Date().getFullYear());2007 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9108703>.

Read about the issues…

• The art of diplomacy; Georgian culture.(A Caucasian nation does battle for the national patrimony). The Economist (US) (Oct 22, 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 8 Jan. 2007.

Get ready!

On Wednesday, Nov.14, 2007, NMH presents author and Professor of Communications, 

Susan Douglas

Biography

Susan Jeanne Douglas  Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.

Susan J. Douglas In These Times

Articles and Interviews

Reiter, Amy. "The mommy mystique: A new book faults the media, politicians and all those perfectly coiffed celebrity moms for making mothers feel like dirt."  salon.com. 24 Oct 2007. 

Robinson, Lillian S. "Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media." The Nation 260.n4 (Jan 30, 1995): 138(4). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 24 Oct. 2007

In the NMH Library. Click on titles to check availability.

Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987. Call # 384.5409 D747i            

Listening In : Radio And The American Imagination Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Call # 791.440973 D747          

The Mommy Myth : The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Women New York : Free Press, 2005. Call # 306.874 D747            

Where The Girls Are : Growing Up Female With The Mass Media New York : Times Books, 1995.  Call # 302.234 D747w     

Donald G. Glascoff Jr. ‘63

“The courts seemed powerless to assure basic human rights to prisoners,
as each decision they made to protect those rights was immediately
negated by executive or legislative actions…”

WHEN: Thursday, November 1 at 6:45 PM

WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge Hall

Read about Mr. Glascoff’s film, Taxi to the Dark Side

Weissberg, Jay. "Taxi To The Dark Side.(Movie review)." Variety 406.12 (May 7, 2007): 45(1). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 31 Oct. 2007

Read about the issues

Gutenson, Chuck. "Losing our souls: torture damages all involved–so why would our government defend it?(TORTURE)(Column)."   Sojourner’s Magazine 35.1 (Jan 2006): 8(1). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 26 Oct. 2007

Pam is also directing and producing the film Who Does She Think She
Is?, a feature-length documentary about the lives of female artists and
mothers. It follows six contemporary women working in the
arts—sculptors, musicians, painters, and poets—and shows their struggle
to express themselves in a world that sometimes devalues the
contributions of women as artists and caregivers.

A special screening of Ms. Boll’s new film will be held this weekend.

WHEN: Oct. 13, 2007 at 2:00 P.M.

WHERE: Beveridge basement theater

Read about Ms. Boll:

"Images and Visions" Woman in the Wings, July 2005. Woman’s View <http://www.awomansviews.com/wings/0705_visions.htm>

Read about Born into Brothels:

"Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids." McCarthy, Todd. Variety 394.4 (March 8, 2004): 41(1). Educator’s Reference Complete. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 8 Oct. 2007
<http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.

Get ready!

Richard Rodriguez

Biography

Richard Rodriguez. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003. Biography Resource Center, Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Richard Rodriquez. Dictionary of Hispanic Biography, Gale, 1996. Biography Resource Center, Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Essays

Richard Rodriguez Essays Online News Hour, PBS, (Dec.1, 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Articles and Interviews

The new, new world: Richard Rodriguez on culture and assimilation. Reason (August-Sept 1994): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Analysis: Race and identity in the United States.(9:00-10:00 AM)(Broadcast transcript). NPR Special Coverage. (Jan 6, 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Northfield Mount Hermon School.

In the NMH Library. Click on title to check availability.

Brown : The Last Discovery Of America. New York : Penguin Books, 2003. Call #: 305.896 R618b   

Days Of Obligation : An Argument With My Mexican Father.  New York : Viking, 1992.  Call #: 979.4 R618d   

Hunger Of Memory : The Education Of Richard Rodriguez : An Autobiography.  New York : Bantam Books, 2004. Call #: 371.97 R618h   

Richard Rodriguez.  Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1994.  Call #: Media Center – Video 973.0468 R618v      

Ms. Blume will help NMH celebrate “the freedom to read” during Banned Books Week.*

Mark your calendar, and plan to stop by the library for a conversation with Judy Blume about intellectual freedom, censorship, writing, and to ask your burning questions about her and her books.  And yes, there will be snacks.

Who is Judy Blume?

"Judy Blume." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.
Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.

Ms. Blume’s Website

Ms. Blume’s Blog

Ms.Blume on Censorship

Articles and Interviews

"Talking with Judy Blume." Instructor (1990) 114.8 (May-June 2005): 37(2). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 27 Sept. 2007

"Judy Blume Celebrates the 35th Anniversary of ‘Fudge’ and His Debut in ‘Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing’." Internet Wire (Sept 5, 2007): NA. General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 27 Sept. 2007

"Interview:
Judy Blume discusses her career as a successful and controversial
author of books for young readers.(9:00-10:00 PM)(Broadcast
transcript)." All Things Considered (Sept 15, 2004): NA. General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 27 Sept. 2007  

In the NMH Library (click on titles to check availability)

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Bradbury Press, 1970.

Blubber.
Bradbury Press, 1974.

Forever … Pocket Books, 1976.

It’s Not The End Of The World. Bradbury Press, 1972.

The One In The Middle Is The Green Kangaroo.
Reilly & Lee Books, 1969.

The One In The Middle Is The Green Kangaroo. Dell, 1984.

Places I Never Meant To Be : Original Stories By Censored Writers. Aladdin, 2001.

Summer Sisters : A Novel. Dell Pub., 1999.

Superfudge. Dutton, 1980.

Tiger Eyes : A Novel. Bradbury Press, 1981.

* From The American Library Association

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2007, marks Banned Books Week’s 26th anniversary (September 29 through October 6).

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. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.”