So far, these books I am committed to read this summer. Why? From personal experience, I have learned that because of book clubs, I will read what I might not normally have chosen, and for the most part, this has been such a positive experience.
BHS Reads: This is our school book, which I initiated a few years ago.
- June: I Am the Messenger
- July: Storm Clouds Rolling In
- August: Go Tell the Watchman (I should re-read To Kill a Mockingbird first...right?)
- BHS Student Book Club...need to finish a some books in the series we began. See here for that list.
Paper Chase Bookstore Book Club
- June: Kisses from Katie
- July: The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
- August: TBA
Online:
- Karen Kingsbury: Chasing Sunsets
- Talks with Teachers: Here, they choose three books a summer: a nonfiction, a fiction, and a professional development book.
- Non-fiction: The votes are in and the first read will be Ken Robinson's The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
- Fiction: TBA
- PD: TBA
- Women's Bible Cafe: I have chosen to purchase and participate in their fiction reads, as I am already committed to two other bible studies this summer.
- June: The Potluck Club by Linda Evans Shepherd and Eva Marie Everson
- July: Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe by Max Lucado
- August: Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin
2015-16 Curriculum Reads: This fall, our district has chosen to teach to a prescripted curriculum. I preparation for this change, I hope to read the following:
- Grade 10
- The Joy Luck Club
- Friday Night's Lights
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Grade 12
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Yellow Woman and the Beauty of the Spirit
Other Recent Purchases
- Conversion by Katherin Howe
Plus...due to busy spring schedules, I need to finish reading The Historian and The Secret Garden, both of which I began for Paper Chase Book Club.
Hummm...I had better get started! What is in your To Be Read pile?
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