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208 Takes to the Web 6-1 // 8-1 // 6-2

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Powerpoint for 6-2 for the Week of October 3, 2016

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Powerpoint for 8-1 for the Week of October 3, 2016

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Powerpoint for 6-1 for  the Week of October 3, 2016. 

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I’m mostly “The Dip.” Et tu?

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On the journey of 24-year-old Jose Fernandez, the Cuban defector turned Major League all-star, who died Sunday.

Jordan Ritter Conn | Grantland | Jul 2013

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Happy Banned Books Week! Exercise your right to read this week by picking up a classic that has a history of being frequently challenged or banned. Here are some of the reasons why a few of our favorite classics were deemed worthy of a challenge or ban, courtesy of the ALA:

The Grapes of Wrath: Number three on the ALA’s list of frequently challenged and banned classics, Steinbeck’s masterpiece was burned by the East St. Louis, IL Public Library in 1939 due to “vulgar words,” and challenged at the Cummings High School in Burlington, NC because the “book is full of filth.” Well, that’s one way to describe the book’s Dust Bowl setting.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Ken Kesey’s seminal work was the subject of a lawsuit filed by five residents of Strongsville, OH against the board of education in 1974, where the plaintiffs claimed the novel “glorifies criminal activity, has a tendency to corrupt juveniles and contains descriptions of bestiality, bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and human elimination.” Yikes.

Lord of the Flies: Perhaps the most ubiquitous curriculum book today was once challenged at the Owen, NC High School in 1981 because it is “demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an animal.” And yet, generations of readers have been moved by the story of a boy named Piggy and Golding’s warning of what happens when civilized humans regress to their more primitive nature.

Of Mice and Men: In addition to dozens of challenges simply due to profanity, this classroom classic was also challenged as a summer youth program reading assignment in Chattanooga, TN in 1989 because “Steinbeck is known to have had an anti-business attitude,” and because “he was very questionable as to his patriotism.” Hm. Interesting.

The Call of the Wild: This classic tale of survival through the eyes of a sled dog currently undergoing a pop-culture resurgence seems perfectly innocent, right? Apparently not, because it was banned in Italy and Yugoslavia in 1929, and burned in Nazi bonfires in 1933 due to Jack London’s socialist views.

Sons and Lovers: This may be our favorite: in 1961, the Oklahoma City-based group Mothers United for Decency displayed books deemed offensive in a trailer they dubbed the “smutmobile.” For our beloved big orange Penguin Book Truck last year, full of classics like D.H. Lawrence’s acclaimed novel, we’re pretty sure we never used such a term.

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Retellings of classic stories and folklore are easy to find no matter what genre you love to read, and the possibilities are endless. Whether you’re obsessed with Greek myths or intrigued by Japanese folklore, this list is sure to have a title or two that can offer a great introduction to these beloved stories across the world.

http://bookriot.com/2016/09/26/100-must-read-retellings-myths-folklore-classics/

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Banned in the 1970s for supposed sexual connotations. Read more for Banned Books Week.

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More Banned Books here. 

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When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies (via picadorbookroom)

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Remember in the movie You’ve Got Mail, when Tom Hanks writes an email to Meg Ryan about how much he loves the fall? “It makes me want to buy school supplies,” he writes. “If I had your name and address I would send you a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils.” That’s how I feel, too. The other day, I stepped outside my apartment to find that it was The First Crisp Morning, and I wanted to do a little dance. The first orange leaf might actually elicit a cartwheel.

Say what you want about spring – for me, fall is the true time of rebirth. After languishing all summer, too sweaty and sleepy to read anything more complicated that Cosmopolitan, I just wake up in the autumn, when I can get back inside a classroom and give my flabby brain some much-needed exercise. I can learn and grow and set all kinds of new goals. I can write in my planner – is there anything better than writing in a planner!?

And, most importantly, I can go to my favorite cozy spots and read. Currently, I am knee deep in novels for my thesis and Norton anthologies, but if you’re not a senior in college like me (or even if you are, and you’re just better at time management) here are some books that I think are perfect for scarf-and-coffee weather.

http://bookriot.com/2016/09/28/autumnal-books-for-fall-fanatics/

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Powerpoint for 6-2 for the Week of October 3, 2016

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Powerpoint for 8-1 for the Week of October 3, 2016

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Powerpoint for 6-1 for  the Week of October 3, 2016. 

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Read one longform.org article, summarize and find and define 10 words.

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What’d I Miss

6-1: “Myths and Legends” Notes, workbook pages 53, 55, and 56

8-1: “Everything Tends to Ruin,” and new Vocabulary

6-2: “Sequence” notes, pages 33 - 37 in the Lightning Thief

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Image: Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley RF

From the lingering sins of a nation’s snarled roots to the complexities of mental illness, the books that round out this year’s Kirkus Prize shortlists won’t let you easily forget history — on whatever scale it’s defined.

Kirkus Prize Finalists Include Annie Proulx, Sherman Alexie, Jason Reynolds

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A hundred years ago, in the midst of an American food crisis, two spies who had once sworn to kill each other came together with a plan to feed America: hippo meat.

Jon Mooallem | The Atavist Magazine | Dec 2013