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Library Grows Despite Reading Decline Although national studies show a significant decline in high-school reading performance, Minnehaha’s library is expanding while many local schools, including...
While M.A. students generally do well, teachers address reading stamina A student sits down to read a short chapter that should take only 20 minutes. Just five minutes in, their phone buzzes. They...
Wagner brings experience as librarian, archivist, instructor This year Minnehaha is welcoming many new faces, one of them being Dora Wagner, a new librarian. Wagner will work in the library with...
Brave New World reveals important issues in modern day society Genetic modification, government corruption, substance abuse ... sounds familiar, right? Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a modern...
"Chamberlain closed his eyes and saw it again. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. No book or music would have that beauty. He did not understand it: a mile of men flowing slowly,...
"I think [watching Mean Girls in English class] is a great idea. It's funny, and then it also shows...how girls act, [not realistically], but it's enhanced. It's really entertaining," said sophomore...
It's 1957. An aspiring female author with boy-cut brown hair leans across a desk and offers a well-worked manuscript...
With all the magic based stories around, what does your mind believe magic should be like? Open your mind and take a...
The librarians set up a display showing recent and upcoming book to movie adaptations. Photo by Maddie Binning.
Free posters sit in the library for teachers or students to take. Photo by Maddie Binning.
A holiday break is an opportunity to choose your own reading; why not read something great? "I grew up reading,"...
English students discuss the final novel of the year in small groups. Photo by Maddie Binning.
The musings of dictators reveal manipulative minds, disjointed insanity Hitler. Mussolini. Stalin. Mao. Saddam. Men...
A sarcophagus is placed in the commons to advertise for the annual book fair. Photo by Maddie Binning.
When what you thought was real life turns out to be virtual, but your virtual death turns out to be real? The world...