August 18, 2017

MC Lit & Rhetoric – Thursday, August 17th

Diverse books video. Review of course syllabus and relevant information. Course disclaimer letter preview (sent home to parents), class library info, and booklove video.

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How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon * To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han * The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert * Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson * Looking for Alaska - John Green * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * The Crossover - Kwame Alexander * The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson * Chaos Theory - Nic Stone * Punching the Air - Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam * The Black Kids - Christina Hammonds Reed * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * Sunshine - Jarrett Krosoczka * The Drowned Cities - Paolo Bacigalupi * Every Day - David Levithan * Michigan vs. the Boys - Carrie S. Allen * Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Matthew Quick * Dear John - Nicholas Sparks * Love Radio - Ebony LaDelle* Concrete Rose - Angie Thomas * The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater * The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik - David Arnold * The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo * Solo - Kwame Alexander w/ Mary Rand Hess * Punching the Air - Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam * If I Stay - Gayle Forman * Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson * Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky * Twilight - Stephenie Meyer * Paper Towns- John Green * The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein * Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo * The Guest List - Lucy Foley * Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk * The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore * An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir * Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds * 99 Days - Katie Cotugno * Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson * The Female of the Species - Mindy McGinnis * The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern * Bad Girls with Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * Jackpot - Nic Stone * We Deserve Monuments - Jas Hammonds * Crank - Ellen Hopkins * The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green * Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld * More Than This - Patrick Ness * Gone - Michael Grant * A Study in Charlotte - Brittany Cavallaro * Hey Kiddo - Jarrett Krosoczka * Dumplin' - Julie Murphy * We Were Liars - e. lockhart * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu * When Dimple Met Rishi - Sandhya Menon * Room- Emma Donaghue * Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson * Sylo - DJ MacHale * Somebody Give This Heart a Pen - Sophia Thakur * Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor* Warcross - Marie Lu * Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon * Monday's Not Coming - Tiffany D. Jackson * All-American Boys - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely * American Street - Ibi Zoboi * The Beauty that Remains - Ashley Woodfolk * As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh * Internment - Samira Ahmed * We Set the Dark on Fire - Tehlor Kay Mejia * Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan * The One Memory of Flora Banks - Emily Barr * Tricks - Ellen Hopkins * Death Prefers Blondes - Caleb Roehrig * Passenger - Alexandra Bracken * Beautiful Creatures- Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl * The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown * Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon * Goodbye Days - Jeff Zentner * This Is My Brain in Love - I.W. Greggorio * Au Revoir Crazy European Chick - Joe Scheiber * White Smoke - Tiffany D. Jackson * Burn Down, Rise Up - Vincent Tirado * Along for the Ride - Sarah Dessen * I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys * Dear Justyce - Nic Stone * Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley * Saving Red - Sonya Sones * This Is Where It Ends- Marieke Nijkamp * Miles Morales - Spider-Man - Jason Reynolds * Dancing at the Pity Party- Tyler Feder * After the Fire - Will Hill * Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth * Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith * Dear Martin - Nic Stone * The First to Die at the End - Adam Silvera * Please Ignore Vera Dietz - A.S. King * The Serpent King - Jeff Zentner * The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides * All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir * Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell * Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer * An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green * The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison * An Impossible Thing to Say - Arya Shahi * Incendiary - Chris Cleave * Challenger Deep - Neal Shusterman * Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys * The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta * Field Guide to the North American Teenager - Ben Philippe * The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han * Ready Player One - Ernest Cline * Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * Divergent - Veronica Roth * Jackpot - Nic Stone * This Is My America - Kim Johnson * Etiquette & Espionage - Gail Carriger * Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi * Conversion - Katherine Howe * Allegedly - Tiffany D. Jackson * The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson * Cold Calls - Charles Benoit * Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli * A Good Girl's Guide to Murder- Holly Jackson * Born a Crime - Trevor Noah * The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick * They Called Us Enemy - George Takei * I Crawl Through It - A.S. King * The 57 Bus - Dashka Slater * Tradition - Brendan Kiely * Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay * I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sanchez * Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé * Attack of the Black Rectangles - Amy Sarig King * Louder than Hunger - John Schu * The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas * White Noise - Don DeLillo * The Young Elites - Marie Lu * Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid * We Are Okay - Nina LaCour * Holding Up the Universe- Jennifer Niven * Dread Nation - Justina Ireland * My Father the Panda Killer - Jamie Jo Hoang * Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi *

I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman * The Godfather - Mario Puzo * The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * All That Shines - Ellen Hagan * Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers * Murderabilia - Harold Schechter * The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck * Enemies in the Orchard - Dana Vanderlugt * Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov * The Secret History - Donna Tartt * Projekt 1065 - Alan Gratz * Milk & Honey - Rupi Kaur * The Chain - Adrian McKinty * Never Lie - Freida McFadden * Home Body - Rupi Kaur * The Climber - Shin-ichi Sakamoto & Yoshiro Nabeda * Zodiac - Romina Russell * Every Day - David Levithan * November 9 - Colleen Hoover * A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer * The Fault in Our Stars - John Green * My Broken English - Quiara Alegria Hudes * Frankenstein - Mary Shelley * Audrey, Wait! - Robin Benway * The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks * The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes - Suzanne Collins * The Summer of Bitter and Sweet - Jen Ferguson * The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*#! - Mark Manson * All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque * The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur * The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland * Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng * The Echo Room - Parker Peevyhouse * My Father the Panda Killer - Jamie Jo Hoang * What Lies in the Woods - Kate Alice Marshall * The Midnight Library - Matt Haig * Nightfall - Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski * A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson * Dear John - Nicholas Sparks * The Giver - Lois Lowry * Michigan Vs. the Boys- Carrie S. Allen * We Are Where the Nightmares Go - C. Robert Cargill * Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * In Cold Blood - Truman Capote * Nyxia - Scott Reintgen * The Lies I Tell - Julie Clark * The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins * Writing My Wrongs - Shaka Senghor * Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros * Paper Towns - John Green * 13 Days of Midnight - Leo Hunt * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * The Turn of the Screw - Henry James * The Martian- Andy Weir * I Hunt Killers - Barry Lyga *

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin * People Kill People - Ellen Hopkins * Genocide of One - Kazuaki Takano * She Is a Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson * The Vanishing at Castle Moreau - Jaime Jo Wright * I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy * We Are the Wildcats - Siobhan Vivian * Baki - Keisuke Itagaki * One Piece - Eiichiro Oda * Grown - Tiffany D. Jackson * The Black Friend - Frederick Joseph * The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan * Rumple Buttercup - Matthew Gray Gubler * Instructions for Dancing - Nicola Yoon * The Perfect Place to Die - Bryce Moore * Bad Girls with Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * Gone - Michael Grant * After the Fall - Kate Hart * Ana of California - Ana Teran * The Dead - Charlie Higson * The Last to Let Go - Amber Smith * 13 Hours in Benghazi - Mitchell Zuckoff * Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki * Smoke - Ellen Hopkins * Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist - James Joyce * The Burn Journals - Brent Runyon * The One Memory of Flora Banks - Emily Barr * Projekt 1065 - Alan Gratz * Dare to Lead - Brene Brown * Circe - Madeline Miller * Warcross - Marie Lu * The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey * Eye of the Shoal - Helen Scales * The Help - Kathryn Stockett * Light It Up - Kekla Magoon * Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers * The Luis Ortega Survival Club - Sonora Reyes * I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sanchez * Every Day - David Levithan * The Blossom and the Firefly - Sherri L. Smith * For One More Day - Mitch Albom * Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi * Dear Evan Hansen - Val Emmich * The Maze Runner - James Dashner * The Godfather - Mario Puzo * War - Sebastian Juenger * A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin * A Heart in a Body in the World - Deb Caletti * Hate List - Jennifer Brown * The Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds * The Accidental Bad Girl - Maxine Kaplan * Dear Justyce - Nic Stone * The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson *

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MC Lit & Rhetoric – Thursday, August 17th

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