Literacy Redux

In the long wake of the lit circles, the remaining weeks of the year will be a renewed emphasis on reading and writing. Each student has chosen a book for independent spring break reading. Many students are reading more than one book, and some books are being read by more than one student.

Here is a partial list of the books selected, mostly from our classroom library:

Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O’Dell
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants	Anne Brashares
Letters from a Slave Girl	Mary Lyons
Tiger Rising	Kate diCamillo
The Dead and the Gone	Susan Beth Pfeffer
Life of Pi	Yann Martel
Fermat’s Enigma	Simon Singh
Life As We Knew It	Susan Beth Pfeffer
Boys Adrift	Leonard Sax
Maus	Art Spiegelman
A Higher Call	Adam Makos

We will return to journal writing to close out the year, with daily prompts building into lengthier assignments of varying stripes. More to come on this topic when we return in April.