September 10, 2021

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, September 10th

Book Talk & Indie Read – w/ a padlet board check-in (see GClassroom if you need more detailed instructions).

“How and Why We Read” – Crash Course w/ John Green

Notice & trends from the college app essays we read in class yesterday. Add some to your college app essay tips notepage. More detailed overview of the college app essay assignment (you might find topic ideas in the last two quickwrites).

Assignments & Deadlines: WRITING #2 – College App Essay due no later than end of day Wednesday 9/15

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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