February 26, 2018

English 8 – Monday, February 26th

Book talk & Indie read. MLA Citation Basics – slides & overview.

Important: If you haven’t submitted (or renamed) SUB#1, do it ASAP.

Music of the Day selections 2017 – 2018

* Red Hot Chili Peppers * Bruno Mars * The 1975 * Sam Hunt * Ingrid Michaelson * Aerosmith * P!nk * Bruce Springsteen * Eric Church * Rihanna * The Doors * Justin Timberlake * The Rolling Stones * Miles Davis * Selena Gomez * Beastie Boys * Prince * Sade * U2 * Katy Perry * Metallica * Tracy Chapman * Branford Marsalis (classical) * Jason Aldean * Justin Bieber * Joshua Radin * Poison * Maroon 5 * Missy Elliott *Paramore * Tom Petty * Hot Chelle Rae * Luke Bryan * Grace Potter * David Bowie * Miley Cyrus * Eminem * Charlie Parker * Ellie Goulding * twenty-one pilots * Tim McGraw * R.E.M. * Halsey * Mozart * Muse * Sara Bareilles * Imagine Dragons * Styx * Roy Hargrove Quintet * Ed Sheeran * Nine Inch Nails * Miranda Lambert * Ariana Grande * Def Leppard * Fitz & the Tantrums * Florence + the Machine * Jack White * Mos Def * Nick Jonas * The Band Perry * Little River Band * Nelly * Foo Fighters * Shawn Mendes * Nirvana * Pat Metheny Group * Keith Urban * Lenny Kravitz * The Moody Blues * Sam Levine * Gary Hoey * Pink Floyd * The Smashing Pumpkins * Peter Gabriel * One Republic * Hunter Hayes * Lady Gaga * Bleachers * Guns N' Roses * Sheryl Crow * Queen * Iron & Wine * Madonna * The Kooks * Pearl Jam * Sonny Rollins * Dixie Chicks * Coldplay * Stone Temple Pilots * One Direction * Jake Owen * Beethoven * Heart * Fall Out Boy * Taylor Swift * Kiss * Van Morrison * Florida-Georgia Line * Gwen Stefani/No Doubt * Journey * Saint Motel * INXS * Joshua Redman * The Black Crowes * Jason Mraz * Daughtry * Kendrick Lamar * Debussy * Lady Antebellum * Louis Armstrong * Steely Dan * The Who * Dave Matthews Band * Lynyrd Skynyrd * The Eagles * Silversun Pickups * Counting Crows * Adele * John Mellencamp * The Beatles * George Michael * Robert Schumann * Elton John * Mumford & Sons * REO Speedwagon * Kacey Musgraves * James Taylor * Nickelback * Fleetwood Mac * Zac Brown Band * Sarah McLachlan * The Killers * Kenny Chesney * Foreigner * 5 Seconds of Summer * John Mayer * Ke$ha * Toad the Wet Sprocket * Sugarland * Star Wars - John Wiliams * SENIOR REPLAYS (by vote) #6 - Imagine Dragons #5 - One Direction #4 - Lady Gaga #3 - Fall Out Boy #2 - Red Hot Chili Peppers #1 -

Book Talks 2017 – 2018

How I Became a Pirate - Melinda Long & David Shannon * Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson * The Road - Cormac McCarthy * Every Day - David Levithan * Allegedly - Tiffany D. Jackson * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * All American Boys - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely * The Infects - Sean Beaudoin * Looking for Alaska - John Green * Solo - Kwame Alexander * The Book Thief - Markus Zusak * Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon * We Were Here - Matt de la Pena * Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward * We Were Liars - E. Lockhart * Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher * Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer * Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk * The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * Guyland - Michael Kimmel * Goodbye Days - Jeff Zentner * Violent Ends - Various Authors * Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell * Girl In Pieces - Kathleen Glasgow * Romeo &/or Juliet - Ryan North * The Best Possible Answer - E. Katherine Kottaras * Fire Color One - Jenny Valentine * Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler * A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah * Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick - Joe Schreiber * Watership Down - Richard Adams * The Love Interest - Cale Dietrich * Mexican Whiteboy - Matt de la Pena * The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie * To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han * The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore * Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon * The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison * The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway * Love - Matt de la Pena & Loren Long * The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins * How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff * Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott * The Dot - Peter H. Reynolds * Genuine Fraud - E. Lockhart * Tradition - Brendan Kiely * Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds * Just Listen - Sarah Dessen * Incendiary - Chris Cleave * Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Matthew Quick * Moxie - Jennifer Mattheiu * The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien * Still Life with Tornado - A.S. King * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon * The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert * 1984 - George Orwell * Perfect - Ellen Hopkins * A Perfectly Messed Up Story - Patrick McDonnell * Love, Hate, and Other Filters - Samira Ahmed * A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan * The Last True Love Story - Brendan Kiely * More Than This - Patrick Ness * Everybody Sees the Ants - A. S. King * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * We Are Okay - Nina LaCour * Wrecked - Maria Padian * What Do You Do With an Idea? - Kobi Yamada 8 Bad Girls with Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * Unwind - Neal Shusterman * Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance * The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo * When Dimple Met Rishi - Sandhya Menon * The 57 Bus - Dashka Slater * The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet - Carmen Agra Deedy * Dragons Love Tacos - Adam Rubin * The Nowhere Girls *

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