The Final Class List 2008-09

Q4 -- revised 2/23/09

• First Hour -- Writer's Workshop (Amanda's new class)
• Second Hour -- Finding Self: Space and Place in YA Literature (new)
• Third Hour -- Reading Toni Morrison (Amanda's class)
• Fourth Hour -- Prep
• Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop (repeatable)
• Sixth Hour -- C.L.A.S.S. (repeatable only with special permission, written appeal needed prior to Registration)

Q3
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- PREP
Third Hour -- Vampire Image
Fourth Hour -- Cinema By the Decade
Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop
Sixth Hour -- The Reflective Imagination

Q2
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- Images: Media and Gender (Katy)
Third Hour -- Advanced Film Analysis
Fourth Hour -- PREP
Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop
Sixth Hour -- Short Fiction (Katy)

Q1
First Hour -- CLASS (Community, Leadership, Action, & Solutions in School)
Second Hour -- Introduction to Film Analysis
Third Hour -- Prep / Free Hour
Fourth Hour -- The Reader's Workshop (Katy)
Fifth Hour -- Introduction to Film Analysis
Sixth Hour -- The Creative Female (Katy)

Books to be used:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
American Born Chinese
Animal Farm
The Arrival
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Caucasia
Dracula
Growing Up Female (selections)
The Hobbit
Lord of the Flies
Pride and Prejudice
A Sand County Almanac
Voices of a People's History (Zinn) ?
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
(also -- choices on "Finding Self" YA Literature list)

A Shout Out to the School Librarians

School Library Media Specialists are finally getting good press!

Here's a recent video and related article from the New York Times on the role of the ever-important school librarian.