9.23 It’s Monday! What are you reading? #OpenMic

A new week, a new batch of books—both finished and being read. Today is…

Ring-the-Bell Monday & It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

This meme is originated by Jen and Kellee at TeachMentorTexts. Thanks!

{Celebrating the books we’ve read in the past week & the titles we are currently reading.}

Description from IndieBound:

Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.

Listen in as ten YA authors — some familiar, some new — use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers that pretending to be a tai chi master or a sought-after wiz at math wins him friends for a while — until it comically backfires. A biracial girl is amused when her dad clears seats for his family on a crowded subway in under a minute flat, simply by sitting quietly in between two uptight white women. Edited by acclaimed author and speaker Mitali Perkins, this collection of fiction and nonfiction uses a mix of styles as diverse as their authors, from laugh-out-loud funny to wry, ironic, or poingnant, in prose, poetry, and comic form.

Though some of these shorts were a little mature for my sixth graders, I’m looking forward to using a couple of them in my class as read alouds. Favorites were “Becoming Henry Lee” by David Yoo; and “Under Berlin” by G. Neri (written in verse—when I asked him on Facebook how he chose to write it that way, he said, “That’s just how the voice came to me. I can’t help it…” How cool is that?).

[Check back throughout the day for updates of my students’ reading.]

This past week, my A Class has read:

12 books

My B Class has read:

11 books

My C Class has read:

21 books

Finally ready to wrap up this series. Man is this THICK!

This is the prequel to Bigger than a Breadbox. I’m eagerly anticipating it (though the cover isn’t as appealing…)

Before you see what the students are reading… what are you reading? Please leave a comment and let us know—and show the students that reading isn’t just a “school” thing.

(For every parent who leaves a comment with what you’re reading, I’ll give your child a BUSTED ticket…)

[Check back at the end of the day to see the cool spinning pictures of what my students are reading.]

Click the picture below for A Class SpinCam

Click the picture below for B Class SpinCam

Click the picture below for C Class SpinCam

[If anyone else is using SpinCam to show what your students are reading, I’d love to know about it and link to my Friday post. Thanks.]

Thanks,

David Etkin