January 7, 2020

English 8 – Monday, January 6th

Course Introduction. Notebook tour & reader/writer surveys. Bookpass (add titles to TBR page).

Upcoming: library and website tours – more book selection – course syllabus – quickwrites

Music of the Day 2021-2022

Red Hot Chili Peppers * The 1975 * Coldplay * Kacey Musgraves * Post Malone * The Rolling Stones * Guns ‘N Roses * Mos Def * Taylor Swift * Twenty-0ne Pilots * Charlie Parker * Eric Church * Ingrid Michaelson * Jason Mraz * Miley Cyrus * Debussy * Nick Jonas * Jack White * Metallica * Prince * Ellie Goulding * Iron & Wine * Kendrick Lamar * Green Day * Ariana Grande * Warrior Day * U2 * 5 Seconds of Summer * Missy Elliott * Fitz & the Tantrums * Pearl Jam * Fall Out Boy * The Kooks * Maggie Rogers * Nirvana * Joshua Radin * Hot Chelle Rae * The Smashing Pumpkins * Tupac Shakur * Kenny Chesney * Florence + the Machine * Selena Gomez * Beastie Boys * Maroon 5 * Joshua Redman * Justin Bieber * ABBA * Toad the Wet Sprocket * Wu Tang Clan * Eminem * The Notorious B.I.G. * Nelly * Nicki Minaj * Katy Perry * Sam Hunt * Queen * Branford Marsalis * Saint Motel * Peter Gabriel * Billie Eilish * Pink Floyd * Nickelback * One Republic * Florida-Georgia Line * Bleachers * Silversun Pickups * Shawn Mendes * Jack Johnson * Sublime * Steely Dan *John Mayer * Heart * George Michael * Gary Hoey * P!nk * Halsey * Bruno Mars * Def Leppard * Muse * Dwight Yoakam * John Coltrane * Justin Timberlake * Colbie Callait * Sonny Rollins * Miranda Lambert * Dua Lipa * Van Halen * Yellowcard * Tracy Chapman * Paramore * Rihanna * Sting * Adele * Motley Crue * One Direction * Aerosmith * Lady A * Led Zeppelin * The Doors * Sara Bareilles * INXS * Luke Bryan * Michael Jackson * Dave Matthews Band * Journey * Saint Motel (reprise) * Kenny G * Imagine Dragons * Rush * Miles Davis * No Doubt * The Weeknd * TOP 20 REPLAY – Fall ’21 * 20. Shawn Mendes * 19. 2Pac * 18. Guns ‘n’ Roses * 17. Florida-Georgia Line * 16. 5 Seconds of Summer * 15. Fall Out Boy * 14. Ariana Grande * 13. Nicki Minaj * 12. Nelly * 11. Taylor Swift * 10. Green Day * 9. Coldplay * 8. Red Hot Chili Peppers * 7. Billie Eilish * 6. Maroon 5 * 5. Queen * 4. Kendrick Lamar *3. Twenty-0ne Pilots * 2. Post Malone * 1. Eminem *

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson * Looking for Alaska - John Green * Every Day - David Levithan * How I Became a Pirate - Melinda Long & David Shannon * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk * The Infects - Sean Beaudoin * An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir * Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson * Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds * 99 Days - Katie Cotugno * The Apothecary - Maile Meloy * Sylo - D.J. MacHale * Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler * The Dot - Peter H. Reynolds * Allegedly - Tiffany D, Jackson * The Day You Begin - Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael Lopez * How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon * Goodbye Days- Jeff Zentner * Scythe- Neal Shusterman * Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson * The Perks of Being a Wallfower - Stephen Chbosky * If I Stay - Gayle Forman * Paper Towns - John Green * The Crossover - Kwame Alexander * That's Not What Happened- Kody Keplinger * All American Boys - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely * Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer * The Memory of Things - Gae Polisner * Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak * Solo - Kwame Alexander * The Poet X -Elizabeth Acevedo * Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson * Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith * Please Ignore Vera Dietz - A.S. King * Au Revoir Crazy European Chick - Joe Schreiber * The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides * I Am a Story by Dan Yaccarino * Bad Girls With Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher * HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * Speak Up! - Miranda Paul & Ebony Glenn * Everybody Sees the Ants - A.S. King * John Dies at the End - Daivd Wong * Revolution - Jennifer Donnelly * Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris * Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson * Fangirl - Tainbow Rowell * A Perfectly Messed Up Story - Patrick McDonnell * A Place Inside of Mw - Zetta Elliott & Noa Denmon * Jackpot - Nic Stone * We Were Here - Matt de la Pena * The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore * The Serpent King - Jeff Zentner * The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern * A Study in Charlotte- Brittany Cavallaro * Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld * We Set the Dark on Fire - Tehlor Mae Mejia * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * An Aboslutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green * Saving Red - Sonya Sones * The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert * Divergent - Veronica Roth * The One Memory of Flora Banks - Emily Barr * Tricks - Ellen Hopkins * Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl * Death Prefers Blondes - Caleb Roehring * Dig - A.S. King * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon * We Are Okay - Nina LaCour * Dread Nation - Justina Ireland * Holding Up the Universe - Jennifer Niven * Highly Illogical Behavior - John Corey Whaley * The DUFF - Kody Keplinger * Cold Calls - Charles Benoit * Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Becky Albertali - Born a Crime - Trevor Noah * They Called Us Enemy - George Takei * I Crawl Through It - A.S. King * On the Come Up - Angie Thomas * Shadowshaper - Daniel Jose Older * Wrecked - Maria Padian * Michigan vs. the Boys - Carrie S. Allen * The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik - David Arnold * To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han * Incendiary - Chris Cleave * Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan * The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown * The Sun Is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon * Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver * The Martian - Andy Weir * Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan * The Young Elites - Marie Lu * The Best Possible Answer - E. Katherine Kottaras * Crank - Ellen Hopkins * Switch - A.S. King * Relentless - Tim S. Grover * We Were Liars - e. lockhart * The Field Guide to the North American Teenager - Ben Phillipe * The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein * Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein * Ettquette & Espionage - Gail Carriger * Duck! Rabbit! - Amy Krause Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld * Milo Imagines the World - Matt de la Pena & Christian Robinson * Barely Missing Everything - Matt Mendez * The 57 Bus - Dashka Slater * Monday's Not Coming - Tiffany D. Jackson * With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo * Challenger Deep - Neal Shusterman * The Female of the Species - Mindy McGinnis * Ready Player One - Ernest Cline * The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta * The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han * Ideas Are All Around - Philip C. Stead * What Do You Do with an Idea? - Kobi Yamada & Mae Besom *

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