CAS: join us 5/13 & 5/27
spring readin’ time
waiting for a friend in the park . . .
these books were donated by brooklyn book bodega and we thank them!!
lunchtime & advisory
in quarantine? what are you reading?
i am midway through “when we make it” by brooklyn born boricua and amazing poet-author ELISABET VELASQUEZ. this book is so truthful that it makes you realize how unseen our lives can be sometimes. it follows two sisters in bushwick in the 1980s-90s (?), growing up, and making things work with their mother, their hopes, their faith (and doubts), their day-to-day, apt-to-apt life seeing as much of what to do as what NOT to fall into. readers witness underreported loyalties and beauty, as well as the difficulties navigating poverty. i hope you can borrow it in person. here are some knock-out lines:
The people in the streets / have their own story to tell.
& I’m writing my own story / so I can remember it accurately.
in case someone else / tries to tell it for me.”
page 52
Professional Spanish is fake friendly. / Is a warning.
Is a downpour when you / just spent your last $20 on a wash and set.
Is the kind of Spanish that comes / to take things away from you.”
page 145
our library’s digital platforms
ways to read for free
SORA–latest books for free !
MackinVIA–lots of audiobooks & healing titles
SORA–Online Reading for Free
This Book is Antiracist is our Whole School “Drop Everything and Read” selection for 2020-21
Read it or listen to it on SORA – Our school and public library online reading platform
Step-by-Step log in directions:
- Find my School: “NYC Department of Education”
- Log in: Use your DOE email username/password (set it up here with your OSIS #)
- Add a library: Link your NYPL BPL QPL library accounts to access more on SORA.
- To learn more: Watch this 2-min TUTORIAL
Lift Every Voice Nationwide Celebration of 250 years of African-American Poetry
2021 LIFT EVERY VOICE CELEBRATION
I am going to read Oak & Ivy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. What about you?
Read a Black poet online at Sora and MackinVIA.
To log in, set up your Dept of Ed email & log in w/those credentials
Set up your NYPL BPL QPL library accounts to access more on SORA.
Questions? Support?
Email your school librarian Lissa at lissa@cityas.org
February Break Reading Challenge: Read or listen to a book on a FREE platform
MACKINVIA – our free CAS audiobook platform (& ebooks!)
Select City As School
Log in WITH DOE email username/password (find easily here with your OSIS #):
SORA–Our public library platform
WITH DOE email username/password (find easily here with your OSIS #):
What I’m reading:
Noteworthy events at our library and New York City’s public library!
| STAY INFORMED City-As Students and staff are eligible for FREE digital delivery of The New York Times. Please email lissa@cityas.org using your cityas email with subject heading ADD ME. |
 No Earth without Art, the CAS lit/art/culture mag, is calling for submissions of photos, poems, stories, artwork, songs. Get published! Send submissions to lissa@cityas.org by Jan 31, 2021. Staff entries are welcome also: docs, jpegs, mp3s & mp4s are all accepted. Teachers can nominate student work with student permission. |
| Virtual Book Clubs & EVENTS: NYPL and WNYC’s Virtual Book Club https://www.nypl.org/virtualbookclub  |
| Oprah’s Book Club https://www.oprah.com/app/books.html  |
| Andrew Luck’s Book Club https://andrewluckbookclub.com/  |
| Queens Public Library Virtual Teen Programs https://www.queenslibrary.org/programs-activities/teens  |
| Brooklyn Public Library Virtual Teen Book Club https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/ya-book-discussion-clap-virtual-20210126  |
| Brooklyn Public Library’s Night of Ideas https://nightofphilosophyandideas.com/participants  |
| Black Health and Healing Virtual Summit–Queens Public Library https://blackhealth.queenslibrary.org/?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=carousel&utm_campaign=blackhealthsummit_general  |
New Books!!
We won a NYCDOE Civics for All grant. Wonderful titles!! Place a hold on one today and I will deliver it to you or mail it to you. HOW? Email me at lissa@cityas.org the title you want OR
Log into our CAS catalog
with your DOE username & the password: nyclib16.
(Or if you know your password, log in using your DOE email & password.)
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