January 23, 2019

English 8 – Wednesday, January 23rd

Book talk & Indie read. Notes: The Rhetorical Situation / Definition of Rhetoric. Read: “The Five Paragraph You-Know-What” by Tom Romano from Crafting Authentic Voice. Draft #1 assignment details.

To Do: Think about what indelible moment you might write about. What happened? How will you tell that story?

Deadline: Draft #1 in class in Dropbox Drafts folder by classtime on Wed., Jan. 30th.

Upcoming: In class lab time on Friday 1/25 & Tuesday 1/29.

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 * Eminem * Roy Hargrove Quintet * Beastie Boys * Ellie Goulding * James Taylor * The Weeknd * Poison * Grace Potter * America * Shawn Mendes * Miles Davis * Ingrid Michaelson * Coldplay * Green Day * Paramore * Queen * Fitz & the Tantrums * Kacey Musgraves * Sonny Rollins * Kenny Chesney * 5 Seconds of Summer * Selena Gomez * Pat Metheny Group * Justin Bieber * George Michael * Stan Getz * Bon Jovi * Jason Mraz (reprise) * Metallica * Muse * Katy Perry * Mumford & Sons *NEW SEMESTER * Into the Spiderverse Soundtrack * Silversun Pickups * Blake Shelton * Bleachers * Post Malone * Colbie Callait * David Bowie * Dave Matthews Band * The 1975 * Adele * Keith Urban * Maroon 5 * Don McLean * Heart * Sam Hunt * The Weeknd * Tupac * Taylor Swift * Iron & Wine * The Kooks * Bon Jovi * Ariana Grande * Styx * Sugarland * Red Hot Chili Peppers * Nick Jonas * Jack White * Bruno Mars * Florence + the Machine * JS Bach * Dwight Yoakam * No Doubt * The Smashing Pumpkins * Shawn Mendes * Mos Def * Lenny Kravitz * OneRepublic * Madonna * Joshua Redman * Justin Bieber * U2 * The Killers * John Coltrane * Guns 'N' Roses * Louis Armstrong * One Direction * Ingrid Michaelson * Bruce Springsteen * Hunter Hayes * Mindi Abair * Pearl Jam * Joshua Radin * Harry Connick, Jr. * Grace Potter * The Police * Kacey Musgraves * Twenty-One Pilots * Fleetwood Mac * Maggie Rogers * Kenny Chesney * Charlie Parker * INXS * Nine Inch Nails * Miley Cyrus *

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 * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon * The Nowhere Girls - Amy Reed * The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison * The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert * The Beauty That Remains - Ashley Woodfolk * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * Wrecked - Maria Padian * Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson * Dig - A.S. King * The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown * The Last to Let Go - Amber Smith * Incendiary - Chris Cleave * The Crossover - Kwame Alexander * Moxie - Jennifer Matheiu * 1984 - George Orwell * Love, Hate, and Other Filters - Samira Ahmed * What Do You Do with an Idea? - Kobi Yamada & Mae Besom * How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon * Read Aloud Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds * Sick - Tom Leveen * The Best Possible Answer - E. Katharine Kottaras * Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon * The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan * This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz * The Last True Love Story - Brendan Kiely * Wicked - Gregory Maguire * The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater * If I Lie - Corinne Jackson * To Be or Not To Be & Romeo and/or Juliet - Ryan North * Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Matthew Quick * Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson * The Impossible Knife of Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson * On the Come Up - Angie Thomas * The Day You Begin - Jacqueline Woodson * Saving Red - Sonya Sones * Watership Down - Richard Adams * Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris * Fire Color One - Jenny Valentine *

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