Greetings world! Actually, let me rephrase that…Greetings to the Class of 2009 at PACE High school, as they are the only people I’m interested in communicating with through this blog. It’s not that I lack love for others, it’s just that the purpose of this blog is for me to communicate with my [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 30, 2008
Getting Started
**STUDENTS: Read this entry and leave your first comment — you will not be graded for grammar or content…this time.
Alright everyone, here we go.
We’ll be using this blog a lot through the year, but for now I want to get you used to the look and feel of it, then get you started using [...]
May 28, 2008
Summer Reading: The Color of Water
I first read this book in college — not for a class, just for fun because it was in the bookstore and it had a compelling title. Ten years later I’m even more impressed by what this story has to say about humanity and our abilities to bury the negative experiences of our past, [...]
May 28, 2008
Summer Reading: Riding the Bus with my Sister
by Rachel Simon
I read this book at the insistence of one of my mentors, and she was right to insist. Here’s what the back of the book has to say:
Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation who spends nearly every day riding the buses in her Pennsylvania city. The drivers, a lively group, are [...]
May 28, 2008
Summer Reading: Angela’s Ashes
During Reading
As you read be sure to visit the blog on occasion to leave comments with your thoughts. You must comment five times while you read, and in those comments you must respond to a quotation of your choice from the book. I’ll leave my own quotation comment for you as an example.
As you’re writing [...]
May 28, 2008
Summer Reading: The Secret Life of Bees
During Reading
As you read be sure to visit the blog on occasion to leave comments with your thoughts. You must comment five times while you read, and in those comments you must respond to a quotation of your choice from the book. I’ll leave my own quotation comment for you as an example. [...]
May 28, 2008
Summer Reading: The Kite Runner
From The New York Times:
This powerful first novel…tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini’s privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country’s revolution and its invasion by Russian forces. But [...]
