Thursday, April 8, 2010

Building My Future Teacher Self

I just subscribed to this. This publication does not come out frequently enough.

Also, I have already started collecting books for my classroom library, here is some of what I have collected so far:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
The Complete Persepolis
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Best of Blume (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Blubber; Iggie's House; and Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself)
Fallen Angels
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The First Part Last
After Tupac & D Foster
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock
Star Girl
Speak
Chains
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Jellicoe Road
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
The Book Thief
Stitches
Bronx Masquerade

Very much into recommendations of good YAL.

Need to get People's History of American Empire for my classroom library. [Update: Got it!]

To acquire for my teacher library:


City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row
(Ayers, William)
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (Wise, Tim)
Color Mute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School (Pollock, Mica)


IN OTHER NEWS, today I decided I do not like sun dried tomatoes.