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 selections 2019 – 2020

Read Hot Chili Peppers * Halsey * R.E.M. * Nick Jonas/Jonas Bros * Rihanna * Ed Sheeran * Imagine Dragons * Lady Antebellum * Tupac * The Smashing Pumpkins * The 1975 * Colbie Callait * Post Malone * Def Leppard * Jason Aldean * Maggie Rogers * John Coltrane * Pearl Jam * 5 Seconds of Summer * Mumford & Sons * Coldplay * Missy Elliott * Miley Cyrus * Ariana Grande * Muse * Kendrick Lamar * P!nk * Miles Davis * Nirvana * John Mayer * Mos Def * Fleetwood Mac * Debussy * U2 * Lady Gaga * Eminem * Joshua Redman * Darius Rucker * Justin Bieber * Notorious B.I.G. * Queen * Kacey Musgraves * Shawn Mendes * John Mayer * Florence + the Machine * Guns 'n Roses * Beastie Boys * Peter Gabriel * Selena Gomez * Foo FIghters * David Bowie * The Weeknd * Sam Hunt * Maroon 5 * One Direction * * * * Red Hot Chili Peppers * Miley Cyrus * Eric Church * Ellie Goulding * Justin Timberlake * Nick Jonas * Jason Aldean * Adele * Rush * Joshua Radin * Ariana Grande * Iron & Wine * Ingrid Michaelson * Muse * Bleachers * Kenny Chesney * Hot Chelle Rae * Kendrick Lamar * No Doubt * Prince * Maroon 5 * Luke Bryan * Halsey * Florida Georgia Line * Metallica * Ed Sheeran * Missy Elliott * Jack White * JS Bach * The 1975 * Grace Potter * Darius Rucker * Beastie Boys * Bruno Mars * Selena Gomez * Nickelback * The Police * P!nk * One Direction * Maggie Rogers * Branford Marsalis * Madonna * Lynyrd Skynyrd * Nirvana * Kacey Musgraves * Green Day *

Book Talks 2019 – 2020

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson * Every Day - David Levithan * Allegedly - Tiffany D. Jackson * That's Not What Happened - Kody Keplinger * Looking for Alaska - John Green * Bad Girls with Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * Why We Broke Up Daniel Handler * The Road - Cormac McCarthy * The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison * Dear Martin - Nic Stone * Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon * The Last True Love Story - Brendan Kiely * Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk * The Astonishing Color of After - Emily XR Pan * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * Monday's Not Coming - Tiffany D. Jackson * We Were Here - Matt de la Peña * We Were Liars - e. lockhart * The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore * With the Fire on High - Elizabeth acevedo * The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * Shadowshaper - Daniel José Older * Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer * When Dimple Met Rishi - Sandhya Menon * Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson * The Infects - Sean Beaudoin * THe Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik - David Arnold * Tradition - Brendan Kiely * Crank - Ellen Hopkins * Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell * The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie * Internment - Samira Ahmed * The Young Elites - Marie Lu * To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han * Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sánchez * The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline * The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo * Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan * Michigan vs. the Boys - Carrie S. Allen * The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson * Goodbye Days - Jeff Zentner * Incendiary - Chris Cleave * The Beauty that Remains Ashley Woodfolk * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson * The Best Possible Answer - E. Katherine Kottaras * The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown * How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon * Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon * Wicked - Gregory Maguire * An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green * Wild - Cheryl Strayed * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon * I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson * The Book Thief - Markus Zusak * Saving Red - Sonya Sones * The Fault in Our Stars - John Green * The Red Pencil - Andrea Davis Pinckney * The 57 Bus - Dashka Slater * Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson * Love, Hate, and Other Filters - Samira Ahmed * Jackpot - Nic Stone * To Be or Not to Be - Ryan North *

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