What are you reading?

What are you currently reading ? This can be either for pleasure or professional development.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on February 1, 2009 at 8:27am

I certainly will, I know nothing. Do you have opinions about teaching HTML?

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on February 1, 2009 at 1:31pm

I wouldn't be teaching it--the kids would be teaching it to themselves and others (but I'll include CSS!! haha

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Permalink Reply by Artur on February 1, 2009 at 4:25am

Paul Virilio's City of Panic

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Permalink Reply by ddeubel on February 1, 2009 at 5:05am

I'm reading a couple of professional texts. Frank Smith's "Understanding Reading". -- Can't speak highly enough about its readability and "intelligence". Also, Vygotsky's "Thought and Language.". I read both years back but I'm in need of a primer....

DD
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

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Permalink Reply by CC Long on February 1, 2009 at 8:28am

The Shack by WM. Paul Young

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Permalink Reply by Terry Parent on February 1, 2009 at 9:27am

Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin. I just finished Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer. My dog Winston recommended it. Wait, lesson 1, "Your dog is not human!" I went to this speaker who said, "If you tell me what books you read in the last year, I can tell you what was going on in your life that year."

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on February 1, 2009 at 1:29pm

Did you reclaim your "leader of the pack" status?

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Permalink Reply by Terry Parent on February 1, 2009 at 10:26pm

I'm currently working on it. My dog still takes over most of the bed.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Kraft on February 1, 2009 at 12:25pm

I've been on a reading binge lately. I try to read at least fifty books a year, and I'm in good shape for 2009.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1263625

Right now I'm reading The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

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Permalink Reply by Marion Piersol-Miller on February 1, 2009 at 1:21pm

Just finished Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Now I'm reading A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz. I try to alternate these "adult" novels with ones that my sixth graders read. "Teacher" books are reserved for the summertime when I can concentrate better.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara on February 1, 2009 at 2:39pm

I just finished Coraline, it was scary and thought provoking... could spark some great class discussions. Before that I read Peace Like a River, which has become one of my favorite books of all time. It has an excellent plot, great characters, and is an amazingly redeeming book. My 8th graders all read it, and most of them loved it too. I highly recommend it. The books I plan to read next are Twilight (my 12 year old son is reading it now- we don't like to see movies until we've read the books, if possible) and a historical novel called Fever ... oh, and Inkspell (read and just saw Inkheart) and I am ready for more! I'll also be reading a bunch of short stories when my creative writing class finishes them next week :-0 Hope they're goood...