I guess I’ve lost my fervor for writing in a blog. No time to reflect. Just want to record the books I’ve read in the last last month:
West of Kabul, East of New York
Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Funny in Farsi
The Persepolis
The Secret Life of Bees
Life Water for Chocolate
Kindred
We Were Here (20 pages to go)
The first four are all Middle Eastern American Lit novels (and a Iranian-French graphic novel), which I read for my class, Ethnicity in American Lit. The next 3 are all novels from the syllabus of the teacher I was going to be interning with (but am now not–don’t regret reading the books at all, though!). The last one is written by Matt De La Pena, a young adult author, who will be coming to my San Jose Area Writing Project seminar next Spring. I’ve enjoyed them all!
So now I am going to be interning at Leland High School, but I haven’t been able to meet with my master teacher, so I have no idea what texts I need to read (or reread) for me to prepare for Spring semester. San Jose Unified School District does list 2 required texts per grade level on their website, so I will reading those texts next, just in case.
9th Grade: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Of Mice and Men.
10th Grade: To Kill a Mockingbird (reread) or Like Water for Chocolate (reread yesterday)
11th Grade: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (new!) and The Crucible (reread–unfortunately!)
12th Grade: Their Eyes Were Watching God (rereads) and either Othello, MacBeth, or Hamlet (uh, rereads that I will skip!)
I’ve requested the ones I need from the library and will pick them up next week. In the meantime, my mom has a book for me to read–The Forgotten Garden–and I have a non-fiction book I bought myself when I was Christmas shopping online–DRiVE–about what motivates people. Oh, and I still have 20 more pages in We Were Here. Yay!
