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Matt de la Pena will be at Clear Brook Feb 10th during 6th period

For a longer interview, click here

For more information come see either Ms. Sullivan or Ms. Kochner in the library!  We're very excited to have Matt de la Pena visit our school.

Don't forget!

We've got some awesome prizes, including an autographed copy of Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater.  Everyone's invited to participate!

Join the club!

From now until the end of October the library is recruiting new members for their Friends of the Library organization that was started at the end of last year.  Membership is only $5 and anyone can join. Support your library by joining today!

Congratulations!

79 years of combined teaching experience.  You will be missed at Clear Brook High School

CCISD bond election information

Check out this video and learn about some of the specifics of the 2013 Bond election for CCISD.  Early voting is being held at Clear Brook starting 4/29 - 5/7 outside the pool area from 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM.  In order to vote you need to be a registered voter and have a drivers license or other government issued ID.  To see if you're a registered voter, click here.  To see how the bond will specifically impact Clear Brook, click here. 

A great tribute

Let's go on a safari!

To learn more about Dan's safari, please click here.

Wolverines giving back!

Former Brook AG teacher Alan Cranfill is the father of Josh and the the CBHS FFA program is hosting a fun run to raise money for Josh's fight against Rhabdamyosarcoma.  Kudos to Katie C. & Mr. Buford for organizing this great event!!

Beware!!! Be afraid!!! Enter to win today!!!!

Drawing will be held on Halloween!!!

The Magic of a Moment

Students, use your free time and your creativity to begin work on your entry for the National PTA Reflections Contest. The categories include musical composition, photography, video/film, dance choreography, visual arts, and literature. You may enter in multiple categories. For more information visit http://www.txpta.org/programs/reflections/.

Entries will be due in late October.

For more information stop by the library or contact Ms. Rita Whiteman at pwhitewing@aol.com

CBHS PTSA Arts in Education Chair

Read What You Want - Ice Cream Party

So long, farewell I'll be back next week

Starting today I'll be at the Texas Library Convention in downtown Houston.  I'll be presenting a workshop as well as learning all sorts of cool new stuff to bring back to Clear Brook. 
The library will be open while I'm gone and Ms. Julien will be there to help you if you need assistance.  If you want to learn more about the conference I'm attending click on the photo to find out more.  See you next week!

After testing why not read a book????

When you are finished with your state mandated tests, why not read a great book from your library?  The library is open every morning at 6:40.  Stop by and pick one out!

April 30th deadline has been set by the state

If you still haven't registered to vote, you still have time.  Click on the Rock the Vote link up top on the right hand side of the page or click on the picture below to find out about other important election information.

Tonight's the night!

The countdown has begun!!!!

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. 

To watch movie clips, see character posters and more, click here. 

Celebrating Black History Month & President's Day

Thomas Jefferson helped to create a new nation based on individual freedom and self-government. His words in the Declaration of Independence expressed the aspirations of the new nation. But the Declaration did not extend “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” to African Americans, indentured servants, or women. Twelve of the first eighteen American presidents owned slaves. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration and called slavery an “abominable crime,” yet he was a lifelong slaveholder. Fearful of dividing the fragile new nation, Jefferson and other founders who opposed slavery did not insist on abolishing it. It took 87 more years―and the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment―to end slavery.  Click here to visit a National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit exploring how these two world's intertwined with one another for Jefferson and helped to shape a nation.

Celebrating Black History Month

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible; understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” (From The Invisible Man, by Ralph Elison)

Celebrating Black History Month

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

Maya Angelou