I went up to the school today with my last load of big things: my rocker, five bean bags, the standup cutout of the three stooges dressed in graduation gowns, two boxes of books, and my two new plants. We have to report to work next Tuesday for inservice stuff. I want to spend my time writing out plans (something I have never done very well, at least writing them out so my evaluator can understand what it is I’m doing). But my doc classes are going to keep me busy, so I am trying to get organized at work in hopes that things will go easier. This working full time teaching and taking two grad classes each semester keeps me busy, not to mention three teenage children at home. The extended summer was good however. I got a lot read. Except for the adolescent novels ( which were ones I chose to read for one of my doc classes this summer) the rest of the books on the list were just for my own whims:
Chomsky-Foucault Debate
Democracy and Education: Howard Zinn
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick
Wolf: Jim Harrison
Teaching Community: bell hooks
Literacies of Power: Ralph Macedo
Stargirl: Jerry Spinelli
The Giver :Lowis Lowry
The Chocolate War: :Robert Cormier
Greater than Angels: Carol Matas
The Year of the Hangman: Gary Blackwood
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes: Chris Crutcher
Tunes for Bears to Dance to: Robert Cormier
Living Up the Street :Gary Soto
Hope was Here: Joan Bauer
Bad Boy :Walter Dean Myers
Joey Pigza Swalled the Key :Jack Gantos
The Tequila Worm:
Before We were Free: Julia Alvarez
The Crazy Horse Electric Game: Chris Crutcher
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows :J.K. Rowling
The Kite Rider: Geraldine McCaughrean
and chunks of Democracy and Education: John Dewey, and Metaphors We Live By: George Lukacs
Work will limit any free reading I do in the fall. I guess that is why I tend to read poetry on my own when work in going on. I can read a poem fairly quickly and savor it as I go through my day.
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