The Date Book -- Quarter Two -- 2011-12

November 30 -- Finish First Book and Responses
December 1 -- Book Share Day

December 15 -- Finish Second Book and Responses
December 16 -- Book Share day

January 17-- Finish Third Book and Responses
January 18-- Book Share Day

January 20 -- Grading Window Closes--No Book Responses accepted after this date.

January 19-24 -- Blog Annotations & Evaluations

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

More of What We've Been Reading

Book Set #2

Titles read and shared by students:

  • On the Rez - Ian Frazier
  • Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution - Terence McKenna
  • Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System - Susan Sheehan
  • No One Here Gets Out Alive - Jerry Hopkins
  • Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
  • Story of a Girl - Sara Zarr
  • Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  • City of Glass - Cassandra Clare
  • Tales of the City -- Amistad Maupin
  • Go Ask Alice - anonymous
  • Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness... - David Foster Wallace
  • Dante's Inferno
  • Dante's Purgatorio - Sandow Birk
  • Grendal - John Gardner

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What Have We Been Reading?

Here are some of the books students read for their first book requirement:

  • Thirteen Reasons Why -- Jay Asher
  • On Killing: The Pschological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society -- Dave Grossman
  • Someone Like You -- Sarah Dessen
  • On the Rez -- Ian Frasier
  • No One Here Gets Out Alive -- Jerry Hopkins
  • Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine -- Tom Wolfe
  • Hero -- Perry Moore
  • Angels and Demons -- Dan Brown
  • Wicked Lovely -- Melissa Marr
  • The Chicago Way -- Michael Harvey
  • The Rise and Fall of John Gotti -- Jerry Capeci
  • Catch 22 -- Joseph Heller
  • Dead Until Dark -- Charlaine Harris
  • You are So Undead to Me -- Stacey Jay
  • Friday Night Lights -- H.G. Bissinger
  • The Long Hard Road Out of Hell -- Marilyn Manson