Until we all meet.
Take a look at some of the books we have considered...
- The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them---I remembered this book a moving and inspiring. Then my friend opened to the page that began "As his penis twirled in my mouth...". We are reading this aloud to the kids and they will have a copy to read along. This book was tossed.
- Hole In My Life, Jack Gantos--This has made my Fall Break Reading list, but it won't make our short list. Gantos spends time in prison here and although the depiction is not graphic, there is reference to prison rape. Also tossed.
- With Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero, Annie Thoms (Editor)--Know why this is still on the list? No one has read it.
Someone made the observation in our meeting the other day that by these standards, we couldn't read the Bible. I offered to get the Book of Mormon (I am just sure we could get them donated). What do you do here? I don't don't don't want to be the book nazi. I know I asked this before and then gave you a botched link to an amazon list, so now I ask you outright, internet. What ideas do you have for a book?
3 comments:
Dear Lord, Greg, we had totally missed this one! How have we ever overlooked the rich cannon of literature exploring student/teacher sex??
Thank you, Greg, you are truly a Cincinnatus of your community. We at Putnam City Schools salute you--and laugh our asses off!
An email suggestion from Kristen made me think about the reading aloud component to this project.
Picture that one teacher (you know who she is and she won't ever retire) reading Nabakov aloud.
Is commenting twice in a row on my own blog like talking to myself? Perhaps.
You could try, and please bear with the title, "The Cheese Monkeys" by Chip Kidd. It looks awesome, features boozing, maybe some date-rape, maybe some teacher-student hanky-panky (two hyphenated pharases in a row!!!!!), and lots of artists hating art (which is what won me over).
Chris Ware did the artwork for the jacket, if that sells it for the school.
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