Are you interested in helping Haig become a more accepting place for staff and students?  Are you a strong presenter with good leadership skills? If so, The FACES Equity Ambassador Program is for you!  Click on the image for more information and fill out the application by Fri. March 23.

Ola!  Join the Spanish Club this Thursday (Jan. 19th) in room 229 and make your very own piñata!

Find other fun articles in the English Language Learner database.  Just click List of Databases on the right panel and use your agenda for the username/password to log into this resource where you can find all sorts of interesting information including “Making your own Holiday Piñata”!

Happy New Year Haigers!

Visit the library and check out some great reads.  See the top Torontonian reads of 2011.

Note that this Wednesday is a special day schedule, so the library will not open until the start of Period 1,  10:30am.

Overdue Fine notices will be rolling out soon so please pay your fines and get a fresher start in 2012.

The ◙White Pine reading club resumes on Monday January 16th at 3:30pm in the library computer lab.

Don’t forget about the ◙Write Across Ontario contest – due February 1st.

“Get your writing read by well-known authors! Chose one of the story starters and submit your work to ◙Write Across Ontario’s creative writing competition by February 1st, 2012.  Winners will be published and win a cash prize.

Come to the library after school Wed. April 27th to help celebrate the esteemed winners of the Pierre Berton Writing awards.

Get involved!

• earlhaig.ca/haigrainbow
• mygsa.ca

The Reel Canada Film Fest is coming back to Haig! Get your permission forms in to your English teacher ASAP so you can partake in this Tinseltown-North affair!

Click the images to find out more about Reel Canada of each of the features.

TRUE LOVE (2007) 6 min.  Directed by : Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany

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Check out Ms. Marshall’s latest installation in the English hallway:

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Got your tickets?

See our school show: The Good Woman of Setzuan at Earl Haig
Feb 2nd – 4th 2011 in Cringan Hall 7pm.

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~ Look up Brecht in Literature Resource Centre (subscription database) for a biography, overview of the play, information about other Brecht plays, good web links and articles in magazines (see Gale Cengage Learning on p14. of agenda for User/Pass).

Bertolt Brecht
born Feb. 10, 1898, Augsburg, Germany
died Aug. 14, 1956, East Berlin

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The library will be closed in the afternoon on Thursday Jan. 20 and Fri. Jan 21. during gr. 12 English & math exams (1 – 3:00 p.m.). Please speak to a teacher-librarian if you need access to library resources during those times.

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The Earl Haig Pierre Berton writing contest is here!

Download the entry forms and submit your entry or entries today! Click here for more info.  We’re looking for :

DRAMATIC EXCERPT – Junior / Senior
FORMAL ESSAY – Junior / Senior
INFORMAL WRITING – Junior / Senior
POETRY – Junior / Senior
SHORT STORY – Junior / Senior

Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2011

Check out Ms. Marshall’s art installment in the English display case.

Who WAS Pierre Berton?

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Like to read?  Well join the 2011 White Pine Book club.  Click here for more info.

The White Pine Book Club meets every 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month up to the voting date in April.

2011 Meeting Dates:
Feb: 3, 17
Mar: 3, 17
Apr: 7, 21

Click on the image to see this year’s selection of novels.  Read at least five of the ten titles and you will be eligible to select a book to win the White Pine award.

Visit the website and come to the library to  sign out a title  today.

How to vote for the White Pine award

To be eligible to vote, a reader in a registered group must read a minimum of five books from the list of “Official Selections” for the given year. Groups may start to read at any time, but most don’t begin until December or even the New Year. Only the finishing date is fixed – voting day across Ontario is in April, however you can vote the entire month of April depending on your schools schedule!