October 21, 2016

English 1 – Friday, October 21st

Book trailers & Indie read. Pre-conference sheet for paper #2 (quickwrite expansion). Read aloud w/ a partner – support & criticism.

Have a great weekend & read something awesome!

Music of the Day selections Spring 2017

* Pink Floyd * Ingrid Michaelson * Green Day * The Weeknd * Madonna * Train * Kenny Chesney * Paramore * James Taylor * George Michael * The 1975 * Ellie Goulding * David Bowie * Nelly * Tracy Chapman * John Coltrane * Nickelback * Incubus * Guns N' Roses * Dwight Yoakam * The Kooks * Barenaked Ladies * Depeche Mode * Tom Petty * Silversun Pickups * Rascal Flatts * Sublime * Bleachers * Kid Rock * Sugarland * Sting * 5 Seconds of Summer * Yellowcard * Poison * Joshua Radin * The Eagles * Alanis Morissette * Blake Shelton * Stevie Nicks * Louis Armstrong * Fall Out Boy * Michael Jackson * Coldplay * Footloose Soundtrack * Colbie Callait * Van Morrison * Charlie Parker * Daughtry * The Who * Steve Miller Band * Roy Hargrove Quintet * Scorpions * Toad the Wet Sprocket * Nick Jonas * Styx * Beethoven * Rihanna * Tears for Fears * Tim McGraw * Robert Schumann * Hot Chelle Rae * ZZ Top * Jason Mraz * The Rolling Stones * R.E.M. * ABBA * Imagine Dragons * Sonny Rollins * Journey * Thelonious Monk * John Williams * Johnny Cash SENIOR REPLAYS - Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, Eminem, ??

Book Talks 2016 – 2017

* The Road - Cormac McCarthy * Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson * Every Day - David Levithan * Watership Down - Richard Adams *The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * More Than This - Patrick Ness * Crank - Ellen Hopkins * The Infects - Sean Beaudoin * Looking for Alaska - John Green * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky * Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk * The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Sherman Alexie * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime -Mark Haddon * Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler * The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini * Cinder - Marissa Meyer *Everybody Sees the Ants - A.S. King * Wicked - Gregory Maguire * We Were Here - Matt de la Pena * All These Things I've Done - Gabrielle Zevin * Th1rteen R3asons Why - Jay Asher * TheHunger Games - Suzanne Collins * The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling *The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson * A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah * It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini * The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway * All American Boys - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely * Guyland - Michael Kimmel * Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children -Ransom Riggs * The Book Thief - Markus Zusak How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff * The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald * Z - a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Therese Anne Fowler * Twilight - Stephenie Meyer * Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan * Unwind - Neal Shusterman * The Shining - Stephen King * Au Revior Crazy European Chick - Joe Schreiber * A Balance Broken - J.T. Hartke * Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann * Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card *Salvage the Bones - Jessmyn Ward * Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson * Romeo and/or Juliet - Ryan North * We Should Hang Out Sometime - Josh Sundquist * Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz * Ready Player One - Ernest Cline * A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness * Tricks -Ellen Hopkins * Boy 21 - Matthew Quick * Carry On - Rainbow Rowell * Sick - Tom Leveen * Just Listen - Sarah Dessen * The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth * Incendiary - Chris Cleave * Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedares * Carpe Diem - Autumn Cornwell * The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides * Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver * Girl in Pieces - Kathleen Glasgow * The Last True Love Story - Brendan Kiely * Ask the Passengers - A.S. King * Invisible Man -Ralph Ellison * Love and Other Ways of Dying - Michael Paterniti * Still Life with Tornado - A.S. King * The Lovely Bones -Alice Sebold * Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock * 1984 - George Orwell * I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson * Peak - Roland Smith * Atonement - Ian McEwan * Baseball in April - Gary Soto * A Perfectly Messed Up Story - Patrick McDonnell * The Moment - Ed. Larry Smith * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer *

Recommended Reading
Fire Color One by Jenny Valentine
Recommended Reading
Steal Like an Artist
What’s Next? (Updated on Fridays)

Seniors - Memory Book due, course surveys, end of semester FUN - memory book & notebook returns & surprises... Come to one final period Wed. 5/17 - 8am, Thurs. 5/18 - 8am or Fri. 5/19 - 10am
Freshmen - Review for final - final on Wed. 5/17 - 10 am

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