September 8, 2021

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, September 8th

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #8: College App Listing – complete as many as you can in 5 minutes

Recap: “Essayification” from Tuesday. What was is about? Hit the high spots.

Read example college application essays by Brittany Stinson and Nichole Perry.

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Quick NOTES (in your writer’s notebook) – College App Essay Tips

Music of the Day 2022-2023

Maggie Rogers * Post Malone * One Republic * U2 * The Smashing Pumpkins * Mos Def * Katy Perry * Florida-Georgia Line * Muse * Ellie Goulding * Beastie Boys * Chase Wright * Hot Chelle Rae * The 1975 * Joshua Radin * Paramore * Red Hot Chili Peppers * Billie Eilish * Wu Tang Clan * Iron & Wine * One Direction * Nirvana * Kendrick Lamar * Lady Gaga * The Kooks * The Offspring * Halsey * Sam Hunt * Jack White * Sting * P!nk * John Coltrane * Pearl Jam * Miley Cyrus * Led Zeppelin * Def Leppard * Miranda Lambert * Run DMC / ABBA * Van Halen * Adele * Bruno Mars * Coldplay * Pink Floyd * Novo Amor * Harry Styles * Gary Clark, Jr. * Nine Inch Nails * 2Pac * Nick Jonas * Kacey Musgraves * Nicki Minaj * Eminem * Taylor Swift * Joshua Redman * Logic * Florence + the Machine * Foo Fighters * 5 Seconds of Summer * Childish Gambino * Saint Motel * Selena Gomez * The Paper Kites * Kenny Chesney * Maroon 5 * Ariana Grande * Silversun Pickups * Harry Connick, Jr. * Dua Lipa * Jack Johnson * Peter Gabriel * Sasha Alex Sloan * Lauv * COIN * Twenty-One Pilots * Saint Motel * Bleachers * Metallica * Tame Impala * Toad the Wet Sprocket * Sara Bareilles * Travis Scott * Prince * Eric Church * Kid Cudi * Rihanna * The Rolling Stones * Panic! at the Disco * Phoenix * KISS * Miles Davis * Michael Jackson * Yellowcard * Bon Iver * All American Rejects * Missy Elliott * Fitz & the Tantrums * Gorillaz * Fleetwood Mac * Jason Aldean * Mozart * The Black Keys * Lovejoy * The Weeknd * Queen * Måneskin * The Mountain Goats * Nelly * Charlie Parker * The Band CAMINO * Green Day * Ingrid Michaelson * Tate McRae * Radiohead * Justin Bieber * Dropkick Murphys * Madonna * Nickelback * R.E.M. * Korn * Dwight Yoakam * Ry X * Shawn Mendes * Cage the Elephant * Fall Out Boy * John Mayer * Tracy Chapman * Dave Matthews Band * Justin Timberlake * INXS * Twilight soundtrack * Thomas Rhett * SZA * Machine Gun Kelly * Miguel * Aerosmith * No Doubt * Billy Joel *

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson * The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert * Looking for Alaska - John Green * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * Every Day - David Levithan * Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk * The Infects - Sean Beaudoin * Goodbye Days - Jeff Zentner * An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir * The Opposite of Always - Justin Reynolds * 99 Days - Katie Cotugno * The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern * The Female of the Species - Mindy McGinnis * Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson * Paper Towns - John Green * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler * The Beauty that Remains - Ashley Woodfolk * Jackpot - Nic Stone * All American Boys - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely * Solo - Kwame Alexander * The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams * If I Stay - Gayle Forman * Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson * Twilight - Stephenie Meyer * The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky * The Martian - Andy Weir * Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher * Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer * We Were Here - Matt de la Pena * More Than This - Patrick Ness * Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld * Hey, Kiddo - Jarrett Krosoczka * A Study in Charlotte - Brittany Cavallaro * Dumplin' - Julie Murphy * Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates * Dear Martin - Nic Stone * Monday's Not Coming - Tiffany D. Jackson * Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon * The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas * American Street - Ibi Zoboi * When Dimple Met Rishi - Sandya Menon * Cold Calls - Charles Benoit * Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli * Born a Crime - Trevor Noah * They Called Us Enemy - George Takei * I Crawl Through It - A.S. King * A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson * Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick * Bad Girls with Perfect Faces - Lynn Weingarten * Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson * The Black Friend - Frederick Joseph * FanGirl - Rainbow Rowell * We Set the Dark on Fire - Tehlor Kay Mejia * The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore * The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon * Saving Red - Sonya Sones * The One Memory of Flora Banks - Emily Barr *Tricks - Ellen Hopkins * Death Prefers Blondes - Caleb Roehrig * Passenger - Alexandra Bracken * Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl * The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik - David Arnold * To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han * 57 Bus - Dashka Slater * The Crossover - Kwame Alexander * Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan * An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green * The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown * We Were Liars - e. lockhart * Everytbody Sees the Ants - A.S. King * John Dies at the End - David Wong * The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth * Revolution - Jennifer Donnelly * Matched - Ally Condie * Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedares * Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Bouley * Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Matthew Quick * To Be or Not to Be - Ryan North * Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld * Slay - Brittney Morris * The Book Thief - Markus Zusak * Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes - Suzanne Collins * What Happened to Goodbye - Sarah Dessen * Moneyball - Michael Lewis * That's Not What Happened - Kody Keplinger * Crank - Ellen Hopkins * Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu * I Believe in a Thing Called Love - Maurene Goo * Never Never - Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher *

Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid * In the Blink of an Eye - Michael Waltrip * Frankenstein - Mary Shelley * The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab * Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir * Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo * Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles * Looking for a Full Ride? - Renee Lopez * The Black Kids - Christina Hammonds Reed * The Dead - Charlie Higson * Hooper - Geoff Herbach * Girl in Pieces - Kathleen Glasgow * The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins * Without Merit - Colleen Hoover * I'd Believe Me If I Could - Halsey * Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin * Chicago - Boujee (wattpad) * What Once Was Mine - Liz Braswell * Be More Chill - Ned Vizzini * 33 Snowfish - Adam Rapp * The Cheerleaders - Kara Thomas * They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera * Humble Pie & Cold Turkey - Caroline Taggart * The Spectacular Now - Tim Tharp * This Is Not a Love Letter - Kim Purcell * Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe - Preston Norton * Divergent - Veronica Roth * Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell * The Seven Torments of Amy & Craig - Don Zolidis * Falling into Place - Amy Zhang * Room - Emma Donahue * The Lost World - Michael Crichton * Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger * Ace of Spades - Faridah Abike-Iyimide * Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom * Fearless - Tim Lott * The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks * The Martian - Andy Weir * All-American Boys - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely * What If It's Us - Adam Silvera & Becky Albertalli * The Female of the Species -- Mindy McGinnis * Ready Player One - Ernest Cline * All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven * Dark Places - Gillian Flynn * Columbine - Dave Cullen * The Maze Runner - James Dashner * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling * 99 Days - Katie Cotugno * Haunting the Deep - Adriana Mather * I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sanchez * The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan * Still Life with Tornado - A.S. King * World War Z - Max Brooks * Light It Up - Kekla Magoon * Misery - Stephen King * Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk * It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover * The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan * This Is My America - Kim Johnson * The Rumor Game - Dhonielle Clayton & Sona Charaipotra * Quicksilver - Dean Koontz * Four - Veronica Roth *

Love & Other Words - Christina Lauren * We Need to Talk - Celeste Headlee * Illuminae - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff * The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri * Paper Towns - John Green * The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky * Live by Night - Dennis Lahane * Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir * A Simple Favor - Darcey Bell * Unhooked - Lisa Maxwell * Turtles All the Way Down - John Green * Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones * Verity - Colleen Hoover * Stories of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft * To All the Boys I've Loved Before- Jenny Han * I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy * The Year Without a Purchase - Scott Dannemiller * After - Anna Todd * This Is My Brain in Love - I.W. Gregorio * Frankenstein - Mary Shelley * Divergent - Veronica Roth * The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks * Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn * The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) - Rick Riordan * Every Exquisite Thing - Matthew Quick * The Freedom Writers' Diary - Erin Gruwell & Freedom Writers * Rikers High - Paul Volponi * Wonder - R.J. Palacio * Choke - Chuck Palahniuk * Watchmen - Alan Moore * The One Memory of Flora Banks - Emily Barr * Digital Fortress - Dan Brown * Ghost Boy - Martin Pistorius * The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han * I Crawl Through It - A.S. King * Every Last Word - Tamara Ireland Stone * Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid * Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline * Cujo - Stephen King * Cain's Jawbone - Torquemada * The Way I Used to Be - Amber Smith * This is Not a Ghost Story - Andrea Portes * The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins * Hollow Fires - Samira Ahmed * Miracle on Grass - David Fanucchi * The Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan * Five Survive - Holly Jackson * Writing My Wrongs - Shaka Senghor * Ready Player One - Ernest Cline * Several Short Sentences About Writing - Verlyn Klinkenborg * Columbine - Dave Cullen * Sanctuary - Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher * One of the Boys - Daniel Margariel * The Program - Suzanne Young * If I Die in a Combat Zone - Tim O'Brien * The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin * People You Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry * Holding Up the Universe - Jennifer Niven * Congo - Michael Crichton * Yellow Flag - Robert Lipsyte *

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