Noticing Sentences

Social Customs I watch the tip of my tie sway to and fro and wonder how humans got to a place where we said, "Whoa. Hold on. Before I can take you seriously, you need to hang a brightly colored strip of narrow pointy cloth around your neck." p5 In general, I'd rather be bitten on the nuts by a Komodo dragon than make small talk. But sometimes you do what you have to do. p7 If Sauce Crew had official positions, mine would be Keeper of the Sacred Traditions. I love the idea of the families we choose having all the features of familydom, including traditions. p63 "Child Protection? My heavens, yes. The sheriff? Many times. But we're talking about a rural county with limited resources. They don't do a thing." p188 We work to make money and then hopefully use that money to buy ourselves memories with the people we love. Simple things like that bring us joy. p197 ___________________ "I thought you're supposed to have your private life fro...

***You may want to avoid this post if you have not read the earlier books in the series. I have attempted to avoid spoilers for THIS book, but may not avoid spoilers for the SERIES.*** Love it "Skies save me from the men in my life and all the things they think they know." p12 "Hope is stronger than fear. It is stronger than hate." p114 Description We stare at each other, she and I. Laia of Serra is all passion. Feeling. Everything she thinks is written on her face. I wonder if she understands what duty even is. p26 Love . I sigh. Love is joy coupled with misery, elation bound in despair. It is a fire that beckons me gently and then burns when I get too close. I hate love. I yearn for it. It drives me mad. p173 I wish suddenly for Elias. Impossible jobs with low likelihood of success are Elias' forte. Somehow, he always pulled them off, no matter the cost-- and usually with a cheeky comment. It was both inspiring and irritating. p215 Clever phra...

One of the things I appreciate with poetry books is that I can just reference the poem because usually I love the whole thing! :) Civil Rights/ Community "Miss Bell and the Marchers" p80-81 Racism "Sterling High School, Greenville" p110-111 "Say it Loud" p304-305 Religion "Two Gods, Two Worlds" p122-123 "What God Knows" p124 "Because We're Witnesses" p164 "Fate & Faith & Reasons" p293-294 "What I Believe" p317-318 Writing/ Education "Composition Notebook" p154-155 "On Paper" p156 "Birch Tree Poem" p223 "Stevie and Me" p227 "When I Tell My Family" p229 "The Selfish Giant" p246-247 "Too Good" p269 Discussion "Flag" p162-163 "Flag" would be especially interesting to discuss, considering the controversy of peaceful protests in the NFL.  "Baby in the House" p188  Do th...

  I loved this panel for thinking differently. Maybe for use with resumes? How can you turn something into more? How can you believe more of yourself?  This one is great for discussion. Is this how our students feel? I personally see a lot of movement from the "entitlement" attitudes to apathy attitudes in my students. Preach!

All the sass I stared at him. "You're... you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph..." p124 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan Discussion "This is why I don't use mortals," Luke said. "They are unreliable." "They are weak-minded, easily bought, and violent," the General said. "I love them." p135 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan _________________________________________ Zoe shook her head. "I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than the monsters." p148 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan ________________________________________ Apollo sighed. "You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search." p157 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan ...

World-building Because Shusterman is the master at world building! Now the venerable structure was a historical site. Tours were given seven days a week by docents with PhDs in the study of mortal humans. p19 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman Passion of performance was a thing of the mortal past, and true artistic style had gone the way of the dodo. Of course, the dodo was back-- the Thunderhead had seen to that. A thriving colony was now happily not flying on the island of Mauritius. p32 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman His parents were "serial parents." They loved the idea of having families, but loathed raising them. Greyson and his sisters were his father's fifth family, and his mother's third. They had tired of this new batch of offspring quickly, and when they began to shirk their parental responsibilities, the Thunderhead took up the slack. p66 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman "I'm going to learn how to drive, no matter how may times it kills me....

World Building The sixth and final fight of his contract would determine whether he landed a new deal or found himself on the next flight back to Earth, relegated to fighting in orbital dives reeking of pot, where the vacuum plumbing regularly gave out and big bubbles of pee floated in the bathrooms. p4 Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee The zero gravity complex, recently renamed the Virgin Galactic Center, loomed ahead of them. p9 Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee After a couple seconds, he said, "Connection's good," and one of the screens above flickered and shifted into the view from Carr's optic cameras, now being fed live to his subscribers. p 20 Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee Who in this part of the world still had a defunct genetic disease like asthma ? Only people with parents too poor to afford even the most basic gene therapy but irresponsible enough to have kids anyways. Low, even by the standards of their neighborhood. School boys would go after such a glaring mark of weakne...

An eye-opening book about cacao harvest. Your activist and agricultural students will enjoy this book. I didn't have as many quotes that I marked while reading this one, but here they are. I felt like they were the kind of sentences that state things that might make students think. Surprising statements or different ways of thinking. They could easily be applied to many different topics in the classroom. A different way of thinking-- how do students respond? Given her height, she's probably a little younger than me, maybe thirteen or fourteen, but she's not as skinny as most of the girls I knew at home. Maybe the drought is over if people have food to spare on girls. p 10 The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan "You're like the bosses?" he gasps. That had been my first thought too. " Ayi , Seydou," she says earnestly. "I just grew up in the same country as them, but that does not make me like them." p207   The Bitter Side of S...

I just really like this part. Casual mention of LGBT, cute, sweet idea about spouses. I loved the whole idea of Ayen as a character in this book. But in accordance to their beliefs about death, Ayen was still with her, doing those little annoying things that wives do, like make you drop your breakfast or trip over a coil of rope.  p54 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig This is a good sentence to get students to think. Do they agree? We have shelves full of maps of places that only used to exist. Everything unique is vanishing. p 72 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig   The awkwardness of how we speak actually put on the page-- unknown antecedent On one of our rides through Ka'a'awa Valley, we discovered a trail leading to an ancient temple, back behind the abandoned sugar mill. I've sketched it on the next page. They say human sacrifices were made there. At the temple, not the sugar mill. p 117 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig   More a...