convertible owned by Chuck

Berry, and the Purple Heart and

footlocker owned by James L.

McCullin, a Tuskegee Airman.

The collection also includes Jim

Crow era artifacts, garments

worn by African American slaves,

and the glass-topped gasket origi-

nally used to display the body of

Emmett Till.

Groundbreaking for the new

building was held Feb. 22, 2012,

and was attended by President

Barack Obama, Museum Direc-

tor and scholar Lonnie Bunch,

and Master of Ceremonies Phyli-

cia Rashad.

To visit the website of the

National Museum of African

American History and Culture,

click on this link: NMAAHC. To

view a virtual tour of artists’

renderings of project, click on

this link: NMAAHC Virtual Tour.

To take a look at the real time

construction camera, click here:

NMAAHC Construction.

The Smithsonian Institution is

currently constructing a new

museum to explore African

American history and culture.

The new museum will be located

on the National Mall in Washing-

ton, DC, on a five-acre plot near

the Washington Monument.

Opening is scheduled for 2016.

Currently, the collection to be

housed in the new museum

numbers more than 25,000

artifacts, documents, and works

of art associated with African

Americans. Such items include

personal items owned by Harriet

Tubman and clothing owned by

Rosa Parks, Pearl Bailey, and

James Brown. Also included is

boxing headgear worn by Mo-

hammad Ali, Louie Armstrong’s

trumpet, the cherry red Cadillac

The annual Riverside Dickens Festival celebrating the

famous author Charles Dickens and featuring Victorian-era

activities will be held this year on Feb. 21-22. Planned

activities include Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball, a Victorian Reception,

firing and drill demonstrations, the Ten Bells Tavern, and

Evensong, which includes Victorian readings and fine music.

In addition, a kick-off is planned for Fri., Feb. 20, at

Pickwick’s Pub located in the Life Arts Center at 3485

University Ave. This year’s featured Dickens novel is Little

Dorrit. The festival itself will be located on Main St.

between University and 10th St. in Historic Downtown

Riverside. For more information and tickets, view the

homepage at Dickens Festival.

National African American museum under construction

Riverside plans annual Dickens Festival, Victorian-era activities

E L E A N O R R O O S E V E L T

H I G H S C H O O L

Mustang Missive F E B R U A R Y , 2 0 1 5 V O L U M E 9 , I S S U E 7

S P E C I A L

P O I N T S O F

I N T E R E S T :

What’s on the

book shelf of

PE teacher

Lia Cardon?

Resources for

Black History

Month

Explore history

of NASA space

program

through virtual

tour

Create short

instructional

videos with

Animoto

Author Khaled

Hosseini’s third

novel is an

absorbing read

A selection of

books for Black

History Month

that can be

found in the

ERHS Library

Famous authors

with birthdays

in February

P A G E 2

Library Funnies

Notable authors born in the month of February

Online Resources for Black History Month Teachers who are looking to

incorporate information about

Black History Month into their

instructional programs might

find some useful resources at

the following recommended

websites.

Black History Month facts and

timelines, biographies, quizzes,

and crosswords can be found

at this site that is sponsored by

librarians: Infoplease.

Information, videos, images,

speeches, and more can be

found at this site sponsored by

A&E Network and the History

Channel: History.com.

Here is a website that leads to

a variety of resources related

to many aspects of African

American history, including the

Civil Rights Movement, military

history, politics, sports, arts,

and entertainment. Link: Black

History Pages.

PBS has created this website

that offers many great re-

sources, including timelines,

reference materials, and links

to additional sites. You can find

it at PBS Black History Month.

The Library of Congress has

prepared a Black History

Month resource guide that can

be found here: The African

American Mosaic.

Explore the teaching guide and

resources provided for each

week of Black History Month

at Primary Source.

TeacherVision has created a

list of links to many Black

History Month resources,

including videos, slideshows,

technological resources, music

and drama activities, articles,

references, and activities for

science, mathematics, and

physical education. Here is the

link: TeacherVision.

Send your students on a

scavenger hunt to learn about

famous African American

individuals in our nation’s

history. Developed by Educa-

tion World. You can view the

downloadable worksheet at

this link: Scavenger Hunt.

Feb. 1, 1902 Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance poet

Feb. 7, 1867 Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie; House at Plum Creek

Feb. 7, 1812 Charles Dickens Little Dorrit; David Copperfield; Great Expectations

Feb. 7, 1959 Enrique Serna El Miedo a Los Animales (Fear of Animals)

Feb. 9, 1944 Alice Walker The Color Purple; The Temple of My Familiar

Feb. 18, 1950 Sholom Aleichem Tevya Stories; Mottel the Cantor’s Son

Feb. 18, 1931 Toni Morrison Beloved; Sula; The Bluest Eye; Tar Baby

Feb. 19, 1952 Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife; The Joy Luck Club

Feb. 23, 1868 W.E.B. DuBois The Souls of Black Folk; The Talented Tenth

Feb. 27, 1902 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath; The Pearl; Of Mice and Men

“As a writer

you ask yourself

to dream

while awake.”

—Anne Lamott

M U S T A N G M I S S I V E

Interview: What is on the book shelf of PE teacher Lia Cardon?

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 9 , I S S U E 7

Each issue we interview a member

of the Eleanor Roosevelt High

School community to find out his

or her all-time favorite books.

This issue we asked Ms. Lia Cardon

to share her views about reading.

Lia has earned a Master’s degree in

Curriculum and Instruction and a

Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology.

She teaches physical education.

In addition to her physically active

professional life, Lia also enjoys

reading.

Lia tells us her favorite genre of

reading material is historical fiction,

particularly the Regency Period of

England. Her favorite author is Jane

Austen. Her favorite place to read?

“At home sitting on my recliner

with a cup of tea,” she reveals.

Here are Lia’s five all-time

favorite books:

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audry Niffenegger

button. The program is easy to

figure out, as the interface is simple

and intuitive.

Because the platform uses text,

images, music, and video, teachers

can customize their presentations

or assign a really engaging student

project on any academic topic.

Animoto videos add a creative

dimension to classroom instruction

that fits well with Common Core

State Standards, whether created

Animoto is an online computer

program that allows teachers and

students to create short videos on

their computer. This program is

easy and fun for those who wish to

create and share videos using their

own pictures, video clips, words,

and music.

To use the program, simply upload

pictures and video clips, choose a

style, add words and music, and

then click the "produce video"

by the teacher or, better still, given

as an assignment to the students.

After the video is created, it can be

uploaded to social media or

YouTube for global sharing.

You’ll find the free trial version to

be somewhat limiting, but it’s

worth taking a look at in order to

determine if you’d like to spring for

a pro account. To experiment with

the free trial, simply click on this

link: Animoto.

Leading you through the virtual

tour is Automa, an animated robot

who provides an overview of

NASA’s accomplishments for each

decade.

Information about the space

program is given through historical

videos showing press conferences,

interviews, presidential speeches,

and launches. Models of spacecraft,

animations, and descriptions of the

various space launches are provid-

ed. Additionally, there is a feature

entitled “NASA Remembers,”

which honors the astronauts who

were lost in the line of duty, includ-

ing Christa McAuliffe, the first

Teacher in Space. Of particular

interest is a virtual tour of the

International Space Station (ISS).

The site also provides a handy list

of links for those who wish to

learn more.

To access this entertaining website,

simply click on the following link:

NASA’s 50th.

Many teachers and students are

fascinated by NASA’s exploration in

outer space. To explore the history

of NASA, you can cruise around a

well-developed virtual tour created

by NASA that details the national

space exploration program.

The site is divided by decades. Each

decade is represented by music

popular at the time and an image of

a NASA building showing the

architectural style typical of the

period.

Explore NASA’s history through online virtual tour

Create short instructional videos or classroom projects with Animoto

“Throw your

dreams into space

like a kite, and you

do not know what

it will bring back.”

—Anais Nin

Eleanor Roosevelt High School

7447 Scholar Way

Eastvale, CA 92880

Mrs. Terry Marzell, Librarian

The mission of the Corona Norco Unified School

District is to ensure that students use information and

ideas effectively and demonstrate the ability to access,

locate, synthesize, and evaluate information from a

variety of sources. The vision of the Corona Norco

Unified School District is to ensure that all students

are information-literate and that students are

independent, competent readers.

The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have

Shaped Our Country by Henry Louis Gates

The Sons of Liberty by Alexander Lagos

Black Pioneers: An Untold Story by William Loren Katz

A History of Free Blacks in America by Stuart A. Kallen

The Black Cowboys by Gina De Angelis

The Buffalo Soldiers by TaRessa Stovall

The Tuskegee Airmen by Judy Hasday

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Baseball and the Color Line by Thomas W. Gilbert

Dr. Charles Drew: Blood Bank Innovator by Anne E. Schraff

Zora! The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Judith Bloom Fradin

Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer and Mathematician

by Laura Baskes Litwin

Bessie Coleman: The First Black Woman Pilot

by Connie Plantz

Mary Eliza Mahoney and the Legacy of African-American

Nurses by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Famous Firsts of Black Women by Martha Ward Plowden

Obama: The Historic Journey by Jill Abramson

Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own

Stories by Ellen Levine

A sampling of books about Black History available from the ERHS Library

Book Talk

Get your ‘Stang on

Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed is an absorbing read The Kite Runner, this intriguing novel is

an absorbing read.

As in his previous novels, the setting

of the story begins in Hosseini’s

native Afghanistan. The action eventu-

ally expands beyond that war-torn

country, though, to include France,

the United States, and Greece, and it

spans a time period of more than six

decades.

The tale revolves around human

relationships—between husbands and

wives, parents and children, brothers

and sisters, cousins and caretakers—

and explores the many ways in which

family members nurture, wound,

betray, honor, and sacrifice for one

another, and how often we can be

surprised by the actions of the people

who are closest to us, especially at

And the Mountains Echoed is the third

novel by acclaimed author Khaled

Hosseini. Like his previous two

books, A Thousand Splendid Suns and

the times that are most important.

Hosseini explores the complexity of

the choices people make, the long-

lasting consequences of those choic-

es, and the effects of those choices

on the lives of others.

Hosseini was born in Kabul and

immigrated to the United States in

1980. Both his previous novels were

New York Times bestsellers, and The

Kite Runner was made into a highly

acclaimed movie. Additionally, he is

the founder of the Khaled Hosseini

Foundation, a nonprofit organization

that provides humanitarian aid to the

people of Afghanistan.

A copy of this powerful novel has

been donated to the Mustang Library.

Feel free to come over and check it

out.