Careers Day

Did you manage to find all the information you were looking for or did you get a bit lost in the crowd?  Or maybe you are a grade 9 student thinking ahead about your future career?
Prospectuses and leaflets from all the organisations attending the ATHS Careers Fair in the gymnasium on Tuesday are available in the library.  No rush - take your time browsing to see what possible careers are available to you.

THE SPELLING BEE IS BACK!

Get your spelling caps on! The ATHS Spelling Bee is back, bigger and better than before.  This year the competition will be held for both Grade 9 AND Grade 10 students AND will culminate in an inter-campus grand final between Dubai, RAK and Fujairah campuses.
Find the spelling lists here.

New Books

Great news!

Lots of new books have arrived in the library including the Total Football series by Alan Gibbons and dozens of new graded readers.  Hopefully most of these will be catalogued and ready to be borrowed at the start of next term.
Remember - if there are any books you would like to see in the library give me the details such as author, title and publisher and I'll see what I can do.

EAFL Writing Competition

It's not too late to enter the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature writing competitions.  There are competitions for Poetry in both Arabic and English on the theme of 'Hero or Villain' and Story Writing, again in either Arabic or English on the theme of 'Seeking the Truth'.  Check out the website for more details.  The closing date for entries is November 25th.

Good luck!

The Research Process

Doing a research project can be daunting but don't worry - there are places to get help.  The important thing is to be organised.  These sites will help you.

Research Skills

The Big6

Useful Tools

Grade 10 students are busy researching authors of short stories.  Use these tools to help.

Popplet is a great easy-to-use mind-mapping tool which allows you to work independently or share with your partners. Use this to help you organise the questions you want to answer in your research.

AND don't forget to check out online library catalogue, Millennium, to see which works of short stories we have in the library.

Online Encyclopedia

ONLINE BRITANNICA

This year we are fortunate to have access to the Online Britannica Encyclopedia.  You have at your fingertips a wealth of information, links to articles, websites and videos and it all comes in three levels of difficulty - Primary, Student and Britannica.  You can even set up workspaces to file articles you are interested in and no need to worry about citations - Britannica does it for you.

Please spend some time browsing - you never know what you might learn.