I'm Back!

Ok, I'm embarrassed. I was engrossed with Shakespeare for the last three months and I've finally come up for a breather. Over Spring Break I did finally finish "Green Glass Sea". I ended up really liking it. We've decided to use it as our summer reading and one book one team. It caters to multiple interdisciplinary units. Some of the graduating 8th graders have read the next two sequels. According to them they get better as you go. Although I'm not a science person by nature, I really felt like both protagonist characters were relatable to all middle school students. Both of those girls dealt with very serious issues like fitting in, death of a parent, and acceptance of who they were. I'm excited to do some activities with it in the fall. Ok, so what are we onto next? Has anyone read "The Help"? It was my latest adult fiction novel that I just loved. Strand and I were discussing whether it would work for 8th grade towards the end of the year. Maybe doing an interdisciplinary unit with civil rights in S.S.