DDD/journal: The reading-making connection

Friday, June 1, 2018

The reading-making connection

After seven great days of sustained reading in the library, these 7th graders are beginning their interpretive projects about their novels. The ACSLIB has been steaming laboratory of creativity and problems-solving!

No comments:

Recent Reads

William Cooper’s Town / Taylor
Lolly Willowes / Warner
The Greater Journey / McCullough
Crossing the Unknown Sea / Whyte
Selected Poems / Farrington
Nabokov / King, Queen, Knave
Before the Deluge / Friedrich
Life in the Iron Mills / Davis
The Hare with Amber Eyes / de Waal
Sicilian Stories / Verga
The Conquest of Constantinople / Villehardouin
The Mirror and the Light / Mantel
The Steward of Christendom / Barry
Lulu in Hollywood / Brooks
Given Sugar, Given Salt - Hirshfield
To be a Pilgrim / Cary
Herself Suprised / Cary
Turn Coat / Butcher
The Secret Scripture / Barry
The Horse’s Mouth / Cary
The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Hemingway
The Garden of Eden / Hemingway
Cat’s Cradle / Vonnegut
Reading the Forested Landscape / Wessels
What the Robin Knows / Young
JANUARY 2021
The Once and Future King / White
Under Milk Wood / Thomas
Days Without End / Barry
On Canaan’s Side / Barry
A Place of Greater Safety / Mantel
Public Opinion / Lippmann
The Warmth of Other Suns / Wilkerson
Annie Dunne / Barry
Bring Up the Bodies / Mantel
Collected Shorter Poems / Carruth
Diary of Raphael Soyer / Soyer
The Clarks of Cooperstown / Weber
Wolf Hall / Mantel
Eager / Goldfarb
The Beans of Egypt Maine / Chute
The Decameron / Boccacio
In Our Time / Hemingway
Much Depends on Dinner / Visser
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony / Calasso
A Long Long Way / Barry
Don Juan / Byron
I am the Messenger / Zusak
The Knowledge Gap / Wexler
New and Selected Poems / Kumin
Why I Wake Early / Oliver
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane / DiCamillo
Jamaica Inn / du Maurier
Cannery Row / Steinbeck
The Basque History of the World / Kurlansky
Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry / 2003
Mr. Fortune's Maggot / Warner
The Corner That Held Them / Warner
Salt / Kurlansky
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts / de Hamel
JANUARY 2020
The Inquisitor’s Tale / Gidwitz
Song of Achilles / Miller
The Gallery / Burns
Savage Kin / Bruchac
Thomas Jefferson Author of America / Hitchens
Last Witnesses / Alexievich
The Star Factory / Carson
Fishing for Amber / Carson
Domestic Work / Trethewey
Circe / Miller
The Importance of Being Earnest / Wilde
The Metamorphoses / Ovid
Churchill, a Life / Gilbert
Travels with Charley / Steinbeck
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Dillard
Selected Poems / Auden
World War I: A Complete History / Gilbert
Selected Poems / Piercy
Selected Poems 1950-2012 / Rich
Death of a Hero / Aldington
Avenue of Mysteries / Irving
I, Claudius / Graves
Priest Turned Therapist ... / Hoagland
Manhattan Beach / Egan
World War I and America / Berg, Ed.
The Best American Poetry 2018 / Gioia, Ed.
Wanderer / Hayden
Talking to my Daughter about the Economy / Varoufakis
The Comedians / Greene
Simmons / The Terror
JANUARY 2019
Brunelleschi's Dome / King
Death Comes for the Archbishop / Cather
Paris, the novel / Rutherfurd
Thirst / Oliver
Great Plains / Frazier
Catalyst / Anderson
The Selected Poems of Richard Wilbur
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry / Tyson
Luncheon of the Boating Party / Vreeland
The Face of Battle / Keegan
West / Davies
Herland / Gilman
The Rise of Silas Lapham / Howells
In Praise of Fertile Land / Mauro, Ed.
Indian Summer / Howells
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce
Breath, Eyes, Memory / Danticat
American Lion / Meacham
The Marrow Thieves / Dimaline
E. E. Cummings revisited / Kennedy
George Washington / Johnson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / Berendt
Barracoon / Hurston
Victorian America, 1876-1915 / Schlereth
Broken Harbor / French
The Source, How Rivers Made America / Doyle
The Odyssey / Homer, trans. Wilson
Nana / Zola
The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840 / Larkin
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers / Heiligman
The Masterpiece / Zola
Happy Life / Budbill
Elmira; Death Camp of the North / Horigan
The Uncertaintey of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 / Green
The Art of Fiction / Gardner
Native Guard / Tretheway
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus / Bowling
Brother to Dragons / Warren
In the Woods / French
A room of one's own / Woolf
The Hate U Give / Thomas
Very far away from anywhere else / LeGuin
Tarawa, story of a battle / Sherrod
Dispatches from the Pacific / Boomhower
The Shell Collector / Doerr
The Pigeon Tunnel / Le Carre
JANUARY 2018
Birdsong / Faulks
Undefeated / Sheinkin
The Noise of Time / Barnes
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian / Alexie
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
Strange Meeting / Hill
The Sense of an Ending / Barnes
The Unwomanly Face of War / Alexievich
Hoover, an Extraordinary Life / Whyte
RAD Women Worldwide / Schatz
A Legacy of Spies / le Carre
The Secret Life of Trees / Wohlleben
Anatomy of a Murder / Traver
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 / Baruma, Mod. Lib.
Prehistory / Renfrew, Mod. Lib.
A People's History of the United States / Zinn
The War Lords of Washington / Catton
The Moviegoer / Percy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / LeCarre
North Country / Mosher
Foucault's Pendulum / Eco
A Farewell to Arms / Hemingway
Waiting for Teddy Williams / Mosher
Nickel Mountain / Gardner
True North / Harrison
The Likeness / French
The Woman Lit by Fireflies / Harrison
A History of Pictures / Hockney
The Great Leader / Harrison
House of Earth / Guthrie
The Courage of Turtles / Hoagland
Northern Borders / Mosher
Mother Night / Vonnegut
Hard Times / Dickens
The True Flag / Kinzer
The Forgotten Man / Shlaes
War Music / Logue
The Glass Universe / Sobel
The Trespasser / French
JANUARY 2017
The Underground Railroad / Whitehead
Salt to the Sea / Sepetys
Non-violence / Kurlansky
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company / Hall
Venus on the Half-Shell / [Trout]
Alan's War / Guibert
Tartuffe / Moliere
The Cherry Orchard / Chekhov
Girl in the Blue Coat / Hesse
How We Got to Now / Johnson
The Rain in Portugal / Collins
Leaving Orbit / Dean
Between the World and Me - Coates
Another Brooklyn / Woodson
Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories / Tolstoy
The Balkans / Mazower
The Odyssey / Cross / Packer
Reporting WWII, Vol.2 / Lib. Of America
Secondhand Time / Alexievich
Peoples and Empires / Pagden
The Red Pencil / Pinkney
Salvage the Bones / Ward
Poets of World War II / Shapiro, ed.
Miss Peregrine's Home for..,/ Riggs
The Emperor of Any Place / Wynne-Jones
Reporting WWII, Vol. 1 / Lib. of America
Lee Miller / Burke
Dangerous Games / MacMilan
The Art of Asking / Palmer
The Invention of Nature / Wulf
The Penelopiad / Atwood
Gargantua / Rabelais
Tales from Ovid / Hughes
Thunder & Lightning / Redniss
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry / Chandler
Radioactivity / Redniss
Black Wings has my Angel / Chaze
In the heat of the night / Ball
Germany: Memories of a Nation / MacGregor
The Hunters / Salter
JANUARY 2016
Symphony for the City of the Dead / Anderson
The Iliad / Cross | Packer
The Divided Ground / Tyler
Behind the Beautiful Forevers / Boo
The Sympathizer / Nguyen
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
The Impossible Knife of Memory / Anderson
The Museum of Innocence / Pamuk
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing / Anderson
The Education of Robert Nifkin / Pinkwater
An idea whose time has come / Purdum
Two Years Before the Mast / Dana
The Pox Party / Anderson
Law in America / Friedman
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Clarke
The Enlightenment / Spencer
Communism / Pipes
The curious incident ... / Haddon
H is for Hawk / Macdonald
Alexander Hamilton / Chernow
Jitterbug Perfume / Robbins
Turn Coat / Butcher
The Forever War / Filkins
The 42nd Parallel / Dos Passos
Casino Royale / Fleming
Bring Up the Bodies / Mantel
The Moon Before Morning / Merwin
A Summons to Memphis / Taylor
JANUARY 2015
Treasure Island / Stevenson
Birdy / Wharton
Stuff Matters / Miodownik
Sugar Changed the World / Aronson
A Midnight Clear / Wharton
All the Light We Cannot See / Doerr
The Boys in the Boat / Brown
Charlie Chaplin / Ackroyd
The Zone of Interest / Amis
Great Expectations / Dickens
Neverhome / Hunt
The Metaphysical Club / Menand
The Tiger's Wife / Obreht
The Civil War: The Fourth Year / Lib. of America
The Civil War: The Third Year / Lib. of America
Abraham Lincoln and the Union / Yale U.P.
The Anti-Slavery Campaign / Yale U.P.
Baseball / Vecsey, Modern Lib.
The Catcher in the Rye / Salinger
Locomotion / Woodson
The Real Revolution / Aronson
Jamrach's Menagerie / Birch
John Wayne / Eyman
The Invention of Wings / Kidd
Sweet Will / Levine
The Second Mrs. Giaconda / Konigsburg
Proven Guilty / Butcher
1914 / Echenoz
The Bedside Book of Beasts / Gibson
One Summer / Bryson
JANUARY 2014
Quiet / Cain
Doctor Zhivago / Pasternak
American Gods / Gaiman
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Garcia
Why We Run / Heinrich
The Worst Hard Time / Egan
The Round House / Erdrich
Ceremony / Silko
The Gallery / Burns
Feast of Crows / Martin
The DaVinci Code / Brown
The Watch that Ends the Night / Wolff
Storm Front / Butcher
The Catholic Church / Kung, Modern Lib.
The Book of Jonas / Dau
Dangerous Games / MacMilan, Modern Lib.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk / Fountain
Trinity / Fetter-Vorm
The Tipping Point / Gladwell
Summer Night / Butcher
Cary Grant / Eliot
The Company / Micklethwait, Modern Lib.
The Age of Napolean / Horne
I Await the Devil's Coming / MacLane
All the King's Men / Warren
The Yellow Birds / Powers
The Tiger's Wife (2) / Obreht
Freedom's Forge / Herman
The Civil War: The Second Year / Lib. of America
Catherine the Great / Massie
Rural Hours / Cooper
Masterpieces in Detali, V. 1 / Hagen
Wolf Hall / Mantel
The Hammer and the Anvil / Zimmerman
Storm from the East / Viorst, Modern Lib.
A Giacometti Portrait / Lord
The Once and Future King / White
JANUARY 2013
California / Starr, Modern Lib.
A Storm of Swords / Martin
The American Revolution / Wood, Modern Lib.
The City / Kotkin, Modern Lib.
Les Misérables / Hugo
The Night Circus / Morgenstern
Midnight Rising / Horwitz
The Great Gatsby / Fitzgerald
Diary of Samuel Pepys / Modern Lib. Ed.
Clash of Kings / Martin
Mother Courage / Brecht
A Game of Thrones / Martin
A Village Life / Glück
The Group of Seven / Silcox
The Lost World / Doyle
Mother Night / Vonnegut
Dead Beat / Butcher
The Sea-Wolf / London
The Watch / Roy-Bhattacharya
The Souls of Black Folk / Du Bois
Selected Poems, 1946-1985 / Merrill
The Selected Levis / Levis
Woods Runner / Paulsen
The Tiger's Wife / Obreht
The better angels of our nature / Pinker
The Summer of the Bear / Pollen
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry / Dove
The building of Manhattan / Mackay
The Renaissance / Johnson, Modern Lib.
Leaving the Atocha Station / Lerner
JANUARY 2012
The Second World War / Keegan
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Haddon
Dune / Herbert
The Civil War: The First Year / Lib. of America
Hemingway's Boat / Hendrickson
In Patagonia / Chatwin
Flowers for Algernon / Keyes
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
The San Francisco Earthquake / Thomas
The Glory of their Times / Ritter
The Little Drummer Girl / le Carre
Johnny Got His Gun / Trumbo
The Tailor of Panama / le Carre
The Blindness of the Heart / Franck
Cleopatra / Schiff
John Adams / McCullough
Forge / Anderson
A Canticle for Leibowitz / Miller
Heart of a Samurai / Preus
True grit / Portis
Camille / Dumas (fils)
JANUARY 2011
Our kind of traitor / le Carre
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
Warriors in the crossfire / Flood
The Aeneid / Virgil (Fagles)
Three rivers rising / Richards
Riot / Myers
The Dreamer / Ryan
Shop class as soulcraft / Crawford
Half broke horses / Walls
Ada / Nabokov
The Black Minutes / Solares
The Magician's Accomplice / Genelin
The Boys' Crusade / Fussell
Matterhorn / Marlantes
Guns, Germs, and Steel / Diamond
A Rumor of War / Caputo
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet / Mitchell
Silk Parachute / McPhee
Cannery Row / Steinbeck
Landscape Turned Red, the Battle of Antietam / Sears
Tortilla Flat / Steinbeck
A Life of Picasso, 3 vols./Richardson
The Agony and the Ecstasy / Stone
Having Our Say / Delany
Crime and Punishment / Dostoyevsky
Night / Wiesel
The Lives of a Cell / Thomas
The Longest Day / Ryan
Justine / Durrell
The Real War / Schell
The Shadow of Sirius / Merwin
JANUARY 2010
When You Reach Me / Stead
Chains / Anderson
The Known World / Jones
Chasing Lincoln's Killer / Swanson
Miss Leavitt's Stars / Johnson
Proust was a Neuroscientist / Lehrer
Black Swan Green / Mitchell
The River Between Us / Peck
The Guns of Navarone / MacLean
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Le Carre
Shema, Collected Poems of Primo Levi
Angels and Ages / Gopnik
The Metropolis / Sinclair
Goodbye to all that / Graves
The Oregon Trail / Parkman
Where Eagles Dare / MacLean
Cloud Atlas / Mitchell
Justice at Nuremberg / Conot
People of the Book / Brooks
The Teacher's Funeral / Peck
Twelve Angry Men / Rose
I am the Messenger / Zusak
The Remains of the Day / Ishiguro
The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Haley
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce
Around the World in Eighty Days / Verne
The Street of Crocodiles / Schulz
Don Quixote / Cervantes
New Found Land / Wolf
The Devil in the White City / Larson
Team of Rivals / Goodwin
The Gift / Hyde
Don Juan / Byron
Anthem / Rand
The Friendly Persuasion / West
JANUARY 2009
Things Fall Apart / Achebe
The Long-Legged House / Berry
Heart of Darkness / Conrad
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments / Johnson
The Constant Gardener / LeCarré
Thebes at War / Mahfouz
Rhadopis of Nubia / Mahfouz
Khufu's Wisdom / Mahfouz
H.M.S. Ulysses / MacLean
A Most Wanted Man / LeCarré
Looking for a Ship / McPhee
Women in Love / Lawrence
The 39 Steps / Buchan
The Stranger / Camus
This Republic of Suffering / Faust
The Sorrow of War / Ninh
Madame Bovary / Flaubert
The Executioner's Song / Mailer
The Plot Against America / Roth
Persepolis / Satrapi
A Confederacy of Dunces / Toole

DDD/journal

Friday, June 1, 2018

The reading-making connection

No comments:

About Me

Verbatim

Sites

24/7 Database Access

Salem Press

Blog Archive

Google/DDD Custom Current Events Search:

Labels

ACSLIB on the Internet Archive

Sites on my radar

On my ISSUU shelf

Google Art Project

dddjournal/ACSLIB

Recent Reads

BLDGBLOG

Captions: Poems by DDD

ACS MS/HS Library Catalog

Graphical Elegance

Health

My LibraryThing collection:

NYTimes.com: news/information, all the news that's fit to print

ClustrMaps