Meeting+Notes+and+Ideas+for+Project

Meeting Notes: 1/30/09   · Goal: Develop a differentiated reading list for each grade level—(separate reading list for regular ed. classes and honors) · Come up with strategies to entice students to read outside of regular classroom texts o Narrowed free reading list, divided by genre or topic of interest and each class require students to read one book per quarter o Allow Jeff to come into the classroom and discuss good books—work on selling a book to a student -Jeff will put up bulletin boards in the library after individual classes complete independent reading projects

o **Webpage of a recommended reading list for parents with tips about what to discuss while students are reading. Suggested ideas:** § Themes § What to look for and discuss in the text § Literary terms to look for § Cheat sheet for parents so they can sit down and book talk with their students § <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Brochure type information for each book <span style="font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">§ <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Links to reading lists, good sites, library catalog <span style="font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">§ <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Book list with recommended reading based on grade and class <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">
 * Complete Literature Review about independent reading and reading motivation (Cassie)

·** **<span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Come up with motivational strategies for teachers to hand out to parents at registration/open house type of functions ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">· <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Develop a book club—after school curricular activity (Jeff’s goal) ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">· <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Create a section of library dedicated to student book recommendations, generate student recommended reading lists ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">· <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Flyers in the library—for “biblio quests” ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">· <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Post reading lists on staff websites, on school website for easy at home access ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);"> · <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">On website post: o Individual teacher recommendations o AP Test recommended reading o Reading resource for parents and students o Great reading books for guys o Great reading for books

Books staff will read to approve: ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">· <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Treasure Island (Hanson) ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">· <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Metamorphosis (Schreiber) ****<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">· <span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);">Pride and Prejudice (Kitze-Ward)

Current books approved by 2 staff members (will be divided into reading lists for each grade level and each class—honors, AP, regular English): **<span style="color: rgb(103, 209, 26);"> __Title Author__ Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer The Awakening Kate Chopin Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Inferno Dante Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass As I lay Dying William Faulkner The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald Lord of the Flies William Golding The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway The Iliad Homer The Odyssey Homer Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Brave New World Aldous Huxley A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee The Call of the Wild Jack London Bartelby the Scrivener Herman Melville Moby Dick Herman Melville Beloved Toni Morrison Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Hamlet Shakespeare Macbeth “ A Mid Summer Night’s Dream “ Romeo and Juliet “ Frankenstein Mary Shelley Ceremony Leslie Silko Antigone Sophocles Oedipus Rex Sophocles The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Walden Henry David Thoreau The Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut The Color Purple Alice Walker
 * Beowulf

__To do for next meeting February 9th:__ AP lists for recommended reading Books for guys Divide up the first reading list Come up with individualized favorite reading list for each teacher**

Upon reflection of group dynamics, I've realized this group will have to be formed with the small number of willing teachers in the department who find this to be an area of need at our school. It would be ideal to have all the teachers in the department involved with this project; however, this is not possible. Some teachers don't want to add extra work or meeting time (especially because it will be after school and unpaid). I will have to start with the a core of teachers who recognize this as a valid project and generate enthusiasm about this project first in this group. <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: rgb(24, 22, 22); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: rgb(255, 0, 235); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Meeting Notes: 2/9/09 <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: rgb(24, 22, 22); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 235);">-Discussed AP recommended reading lists -Found recommended reading list for male readers
 * <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: rgb(224, 104, 66); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Update: 2/7/09

**Hanson Recommendations**: A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah Over a Thousand Hills I Walk for You Hannah Jansen Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1984 George Orwell The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol Amazing Grace Jonathan Kozol Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne Long Days Journey Into Night Eugene O’Neil A Gathering of Old Men Ernest Gaines The Color of Water James McBride A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Night Elie Wiesel Native Speaker Chang Rae Lee Christ in Concrete Pietro di Donato Lies my Teacher Told Me James Loewen Kingdom of Auschwitz Otto Friedrich Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Thousand Pieces of Gold Ruth Anne Lum McCunn The Woman Warrior Maxine Kingston A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen A Raisin in the Sun Loraine Hansberry Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare The Solace of Open Spaces Gretel Erlich Encounters with the Arch Druid John McPhee Bless Me, Ultima Rudolph Anaya West of Kabul, East of New York Tamin Ansary The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini We are all the Same Jim Woot God Grew Tired of Us John Buldau The Color of Water James McBride A Gesture Life Chang Rae Lee Maus I Art Spiegelman Maus II Art Spiegelman Black Like Me John Griffin Walden Henry David Thoreau Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Album The Giver Lois Lowry Gathering Blue Lois Lowry The Messenger Lois Lowry A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines Passing Nella Larson Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card Ender’s Shadow Orson Scott Card Three cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Of Beetles and Angels Mawi Asgedom <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: rgb(24, 22, 22); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">To do for next meeting: Think of ways to organize reading lists. Finish teacher recommended lists. Finish reading books to add to list. <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: purple; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">

Updated Independent Reading Lists on K-W's Website--2/23 meeting notes:

-Created differentiated reading lists per grade level, gender, reading ability, and genre. -Added the lists to the following website: []

When the school updates the archaic teacher webpages, we will each have these lists on our webpage. Right now, the webpages are too basic for this type of document/links. Megan is the only teacher who subscribes to a website, so we'll use her webpage for now. <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: purple; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">(Look on Left side to find and access the lists) <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: rgb(24, 22, 22); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <span style="background: rgb(253, 252, 252) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: red; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> Update from Megan 2/27/09 (via email): Hey guys - Look at this I found we can add to our staff development project [] You can click by grades and get a whole list of books! I will add that to our list of resources! Happy Friday!Megan Update from Jeff 3/3/09 (via email): Cassie: The bulletin board is up in the library! Your students' pictures and and recommended reading lists from last semester look great and I've noticed a lot of other students checking out the same books because their peers are on the bulletin board. I'm going to order more of Card's Ender's Shadow because all your students are asking for the sequel to Ender's Game. They love the book. What a great novel for freshmen year. Unfortunately, we only have two copies of Ender's Shadow--not enough to go around.

In April, Dan will be done with the 9th grade honors students' independent reading project and I'll switch the bulletin board.

-Jeff Here's the link to the book that links the books to reviews/other web pages: http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/mkitzeward/reading.cfm -Megan