Out of Class Reading
Every Thursday you will have quiet reading time to read a book of your own choosing. After finishing the book, you will do a creative book report (more on that later).
Today we will head to the library to check out books. Mr. Rick, our school librarian, will help you.

The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
Quizlet deck, vocabulary Bean Trees chapter 1
Vocabulary quiz Thursday
Homework: Read the rest of chapter 1
Homework: over the weekend, finish chapter 2









". . . sometimes you can tell the truth better if you do more than just tell the truth"--Twain

"We don't read and write poetry [or books] because it's cute; we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion"--Mr. Keating, Dead Poets Society

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside the story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species"--John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green reads The Fault in Our Stars, chapter 1