September 18, 2018

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, September 18th

Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite: revision (choose one to reread and make some changes – consider the possibilities).

College App Essay – tips, examples, notice big “moves” that make examples effective.

Upcoming: More look at college essays tomorrow, lab time on Thursday, & a draft of your college app essay for WRITE CLUB on Friday.

Music of the Day selections 2018 – 2019

* Red Hot Chili Peppers * Halsey * Imagine Dragons * Ariana Grande * Def Leppard * Florida Georgia Line * Joshua Radin * Charlie Parker * The 1975 * Pearl Jam * Saint Motel * Van Halen * Miranda Lambert * Bruno Mars * twenty-one pilots * Florence + the Machine * R.E.M. * Ed Sheeran * Missy Elliott * John Mayer * John Coltrane * Prince * Maroon 5 * Taylor Swift * Nine Inch Nails * Led Zeppelin * Iron & Wine * Michael Jackson * Sara Bareilles * Foreigner * Miley Cyrus * Debussy * Luke Bryan * Toad the Wet Sprocket * P!nk * Kendrick Lamar * Lady Antebellum * Mos Def * Tom Petty * Daughtry * Justin Timberlake * Foo Fighters *

Book Talks 2018 – 2019

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak * Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson * The Road - Cormac McCarthy * Every Day - David Levithan * Last Stop on Market Street - Matt de la Pena * How I Became a Pirate - Melinda Long * Allegedly - Tiffany D. Jackson * Dear Martin - Nic Stone * Solo - Kwame Alexander * Looking for Alaska - John Green * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * The Infects - Sean Beaudoin * The Book Thief - Markus Zusak * We Were Liars - e. lockhart * Goodbye Days - Jeff Zentner * The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer * We Were Here - Matt de la Pena * Duck! Rabbit! - Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld * Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk * The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson * Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher * Boy 21 - Matthew Quick * Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell * Violent Ends - Shaun David Hutchinson and others * ,Bad Girls With Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * The Book of Mistakes - Corinna Luyken * Tradition - Brendan Kiely * When Dimple Met Rishi - Sandhya Menon * The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore * Giggle, Giggle, Quack - Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin * The 57 Bus - Dashka Slater * Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson * The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie * To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han * The Young Elites - Marie Lu * Mexican WhiteBoy - Matt de la Pena * The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini * Shadowshaper - Daniel Jose Older * After the Fall - Dan Santat *

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