Author Book Talks

We need to start scheduling actual book talks for June. Plan on 5-8 minutes to tell the class about your writer, the book and something about the writer's style and significance.

James Botsford Larry Watson
Spencer Pleninger Cormac McCarthy
Molly Snell-Larch Stieg Larsson
Kadisha Phillips Kurt Vonnegut
Nahoma Presberg Gregory Maguire
Rachel Tobin Jonathon Safron Foer
Lauren McGuire Alice Sebold
Meredith Jeffers Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran)
Mary Rice Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
Jonathan Madison Anthony Burgess
Savannah Goole Elizabeth Gilbert
Nautica Lawrence Bebe Moore Campbell
Jack Scardino Nell Degrasse Tyson
Alicia Green Tina Zahn w/ Wanda Dyson
Amane Amireh Khaled Hosseini
Jamilah Barker Pam Houston
Amanda Ghysel E. Annie Proulx
Jahmal Blair-Golden

Sherman Alexie

Pick up Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Visit Sherman Alexie's website:
www.fallsapart.com/

continue to work on your independent projects. Put work in your folders.

May 10--View Cunningham A Home at the End of the World

Watch film based on Michael Cunningham's book "A Home at the End of the World"

Cunningham wrote the adapted screenplay

Next project: The Independent Project---more to come