January 18, 2019

English 8 – Friday, January 18th

Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #6: Random Pic. Read Like a Write (RLaW) Intro & practice with “Cruel As It Is” by Leonard Pitts, Jr. of Miami Herald.

3 Day Weekend: Read something awesome!

Music of the Day 2020-2021

Taylor Swift * Post Malone * Nirvana * Kacey Musgraves * U2 * Ariana Grande * Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def * Sam Hunt * Muse * Maroon 5 * Van Halen * John Mayer * Pearl Jam * Toad the Wet Sprocket * Kendrick Lamar * The 1975 * Justin Timberlake * Wu-Tang Clan * Missy Elliott * Selena Gomez * Silversun Pickups * Miley Cyrus * Iron & Wine * Sara Bareilles * One Republic * Kenny Chesney * Red Hot Chili Peppers * Bruno Mars * Adele * Imagine Dragons * Fitz & the Tantrums * Hot Chelle Rae * The Kooks * Jason Mraz * Beastie Boys * Ingrid Michaelson * The Weeknd * The Smashing Pumpkins * Shawn Mendes * Guns N Roses * Peter Gabriel * Saint Motel * John Coltrane * Joshua Radin * Eric Church * Katy Perry * One Direction * Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers * Billie Eilish * Coldplay * Pink Floyd * P!nk *

Book Talks / Read Alouds 2020 – 2021

The Day You Begin - Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael Lopez * The Dot - Peter H. Reynolds * How I Became a Pirate - Melinda Long & David Shannon * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * Looking for Alaska - John Green * The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * How to Read a Book - Kwame Alexander * Fight Club - Chuck Palaniuk * Crank - Ellen Hopkins * Bad Girls with Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * Goodbye Days - Jeff Zentner * The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo * With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo * Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo * The Beauty that Remains - Ashley Woodfolk * The Young Elites - Marie Lu * Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler * How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon * The Roots of Rap - Carole Boston Weatherford * A Different Pond - Bao Phi * Incendiary - Chris Cleave * The Proudest Blue - Ibtihaj Muhammad * Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan * Fry Bread - Kevin Noble Maillard * Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know - Samira Ahmed * Also an Octopus - Maggie Tokuda-Hall * The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown * The Last True Love Story - Brendan Kiely * Saving Red - Sonya Sones * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * The Road - Cormac McCarthy * Duck!Rabbit! - Rosenthal & Licthenheld * Internment - Samira Ahmed * Monday's Not Coming - Tiffany D. Jackson * Wild - Cheryl Strayed * Paper Towns - John Green * Tradition - Brendan Kiely * The 57 Bus - Dashka Slater * Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay * With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo * The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline * Love, Hate, & Other Filters - Samira Ahmed * Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu * Barely Missing Everything - Matt Mendez * That's Not What Happened - Kody Keplinger * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * Ideas Are All Around - Philip C. Stead * Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon *

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