Will Mcbride Books
Vernie Montagna
Please answer the following journal prompt and submit your answer to TEAMS. I've copied the question there so please submit your answer in TEAMS. Journal #5 Write about a time you struggled with a choice and made the right one. 8-12 sentences. StudySync Please log into StudySync (McGraw Hill) on the PVPUSD portal. I've created an assignment for you there. You will submit the final part of the assignment into TEAMS on Friday, 4/17. We will also have a discussion scheduled for later this week; I will send you an update on TEAMS.
Please answer the following prompt in TEAMS. I've copied the assignment there so please submit your answers there too. Journal #5Write about a difficult decision you had to make. Provide details surrounding the decision and what made it so difficult. Minimum of 8-10 sentences. StudySycPlease log into StudySync (McGraw Hill) on the PVPUSD portal. I've created an assignment for you there. You will submit the final part of the assignment into TEAMS on Friday, 4/17. We will also have a discussion scheduled for later this week; I will send you an update on TEAMS.
Please use TEAMS on Office 365 to submit your AR book for the month. You can use the chat feature to send me the title and author of your book or just post on the Assignment itself. I will go through and place a Thumbs Up emoji if your book is approved. Please check the AR system to make sure there is a test for the book. If your book is not approved, use the links I sent last week to look for another book. Please remember that you DO NOT NEED TO BUY THE BOOK. Please use the PV Library online system to check out an ebook. AUDIBLE is also offering free books to students to stream if you prefer to listen to your novel or to listen to while reading. Persuasive Essays are due on Friday. Please submit your essay through TEAMS - please DO NOT EMAIL your essay to me. I will place the assignment on TEAMS
Please do not forget to create a Works Cited page for your essay. It needs to be a separate page in your essay. There is a link on how to create a Works Cited Page. You can also use Easy Bib - I will provide a link to that website as well.
With the closure of libraries, checking out a book is difficult but definitely not impossible. If you have a PV library card, you can check out E-Books using the Overdrive link on the PV Library website. I will attach a link on Edlio.
First, please continue working on your persuasive essay. I have uploaded the peer review form; please use it to review your own essay. I understand that you won't be able to share the essay with a classmate but I would still like you to use it to edit your own essay. Secondly, please begin your search for your Award Winner novel. Your novel must possess one of these awards which can be found on the cover of the novel or above the summary of the novel on the back cover:Printz Hugo Nebula YALSA CarnegiePulitzerNational Book AwardMan BookerEdgar The Printz, Hugo, Nebula and YALSA awards winners are novels geared to young teen readers. I will include a link to Amazon and Barnes & Noble to help you search for titles. For my 2nd period ELD-C students, it is appropriate for you to search for books that have the Caldecott or Newberry Award on them but please look for one that will challenge you. If the Caldecott or Newberry are not challenging, please look for books that fall in the Printz or YALSA catergories. Do not forget to check AR to ensure your book has a test attached to it.
June is here and as a great deal of Pride events will be held virtually this year, and there are many opportunities to celebrate the Queer community. Feminist Book Club has a wealth of podcast episodes and blog posts dedicated specifically to gender identity and amplifying the work of transgender people everywhere. For example, Natalia and Lucy talk about gender, fashion, and feminism and I have reviewed one of my favorite books, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender.
One of my favorite ways to celebrate Pride is to read a number of books by Queer authors and this year I have a new and memorable favorite. Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride is perhaps one of the most Influential books I have read this year.
Sarah McBride is a State Senator for the first district in Delaware which she won in the November 2020 Primary Election, making her the first openly transgender senator in American history. Sarah McBride grew up with great pride for her state. After publicly coming out as transgender during her last semester and term as student body president at American University, Sarah began her high paced trajectory towards leadership.
During her time advocating for transgender rights to non-discrimination protections and healthcare rights Sarah met her future husband, Andrew Cray who was a radiant and proud transgender man from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Andrew, or Andy as Sarah calls him, was one of the vital members of the team that secured LGBTQ+ protections for the Affordable Care Act. Until the day that Andy passed away from oral cancer, he dedicated his life to advocating for transgender rights and amplifying their voices.
Tomorrow Will Be Different is one of the most influential books I have read. Specifically as a queer cisgender woman, I have many privileges that I am not always cognizant of. Reading and more specifically listening to Tomorrow Will Be Different was both a challenging and enlightening experience. Sarah lays it all out in her memoir and although she is quite young, she has lived a life full of experiences that have matured her beyond her years. Sarah accepts that she may not always know the answers and that asking for help and learning are the keys to her own achievement.
Tomorrow Will Be Different does have a great deal of difficult moments where I was choked up with emotion. Specifically hearing about the love Sarah feels for Andy brought me so much happiness and devastation when I went along with the journey they took after Andy was diagnosed with oral cancer.
will mcbride
was born in 1931 in st. louis, missouri and grew up in chicago. he was trained as a painter by norman rockwell and went on to study drawing and painting at syracuse university, where he graduated in 1953. from 1953 to 1955 he served in the u.s. army at wrzburg, germany, and would remain in germany until his death.
In addition to writing, McBride toured as a saxophonist sideman with jazz legend Jimmy Scott, among others. He also has written songs (music and lyrics) for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., Pura F, Gary Burton and even for the PBS television character Barney. He received the Stephen Sondheim Award and the Richard Rodgers Foundation Horizon Award for his musical Bobos, co-written with playwright Ed Shockley. McBride has been featured on national radio and television in America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the event starting at 7:30 p.m. The format for the event is a traditional lecture with a Q&A portion to follow. Attendees will have a special opportunity for a book signing with McBride from 8:30 to 9 p.m. A livestream of the event will be available at bridgewater.edu/mcbride.
National Book Award-winning novelist James McBride (The Good Lord Bird) returns with a story that centers around a neighborhood in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the lives of its Jewish and African American residents. James McBride will be joined in conversation by award-winning author Danielle Evans.
James McBride is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Deacon King Kong, The Color of Water, and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award. He is the winner of the National Humanities Medal and is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University.
Danielle Evans is the author of the award-winning story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. She is a professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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