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Monday, February 23, 2009
books
To determine your Literacy Score, use the following rules:
4 points – if you read the book listed
5 points – if you read the book listed and it wasn’t a school assignment
3 points—if you read a different book by the author than the one listed
1. Aesop’s Fables -
2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe -
3. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - 5
4. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson -
5. Foundation – Isaac Asimov -
6. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 5
7. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin -
8. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac -
9. The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum -
10. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow -
11. The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir -
12. Beowulf - 4
13. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
14. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 5
15. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury -
16. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck -
17. Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan -4
18. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
19. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs -
20. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote -
21. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carre -
22. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -5
23. My Antonia – Willa Cather -4
24. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes -
25. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler -
26. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer - 4
27. The Awakening – Kate Chopin -4
28. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie -3
29. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
30. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 4
31. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper -
32. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane -
33. The Enormous Room – e. e. cummings -
34. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - 5
35. Divine Comedy - Dante - 4
36. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe -
37. The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick -
38. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
39. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
40. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
41. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
42. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
43. Camille – Alexander Dumas fils. -
44. Middlemarch - George Eliot -
45. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison -
46. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner - 3
47. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding -
48. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - 4
49. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 5
50. The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford -
51. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster -
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
53. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - 4
54. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
55. Riders of the Purple Range – Zane Grey -
56. She – H. Rider Haggard -
57. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett -
58. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
59. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 4
60. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller -
61. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway -
62. Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry -
63. The Odyssey – Homer - 4
64. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
65. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston -
66. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 4
67. Daisy Miller – Henry James -
68. From Here to Eternity – James Jones -
69. Ulysses - James Joyce -
70. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka - 4
71. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling -
72. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence -3
73. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 5
74. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
75. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis -
76. The Call of the Wild – Jack London - 4
77. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer -
78. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann -
79. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham -
80. Selected Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant -
81. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
82. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers - 5
83. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
84. Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener -
85. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
86. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
87. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
88. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
89. A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor - 4
90. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy -
91. Animal Farm - George Orwell - 4
92. Selected Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe - 5
93. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand -
94. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson -
95. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 5
96. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
97. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott -
98. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley - 4
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
100. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair -
101. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith -
102. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 3
103. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson -
104. Dracula - Bram Stoker -
105. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe -
106. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift -
107. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
108. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
109. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 5
110. Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope -
111. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain - 3
112. Rabbit, Run – John Updike -
113. The City and the Pillar – Gore Vidal -
114. All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren -
115. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
116. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells - 4
117. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton -
118. Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
119. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde - 4
120. Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder -
121. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf -
122. Germinal - Emile Zola -
123. (bonus) The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams - 4
124. (bonus) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini -
125. (bonus) Number the Stars - Lois Lowry - 3
149 is my score. I want to read everything on this list.
4 points – if you read the book listed
5 points – if you read the book listed and it wasn’t a school assignment
3 points—if you read a different book by the author than the one listed
1. Aesop’s Fables -
2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe -
3. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - 5
4. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson -
5. Foundation – Isaac Asimov -
6. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 5
7. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin -
8. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac -
9. The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum -
10. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow -
11. The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir -
12. Beowulf - 4
13. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
14. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 5
15. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury -
16. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck -
17. Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan -4
18. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
19. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs -
20. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote -
21. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carre -
22. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -5
23. My Antonia – Willa Cather -4
24. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes -
25. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler -
26. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer - 4
27. The Awakening – Kate Chopin -4
28. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie -3
29. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
30. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 4
31. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper -
32. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane -
33. The Enormous Room – e. e. cummings -
34. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - 5
35. Divine Comedy - Dante - 4
36. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe -
37. The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick -
38. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
39. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
40. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
41. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
42. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
43. Camille – Alexander Dumas fils. -
44. Middlemarch - George Eliot -
45. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison -
46. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner - 3
47. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding -
48. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - 4
49. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 5
50. The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford -
51. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster -
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
53. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - 4
54. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
55. Riders of the Purple Range – Zane Grey -
56. She – H. Rider Haggard -
57. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett -
58. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
59. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 4
60. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller -
61. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway -
62. Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry -
63. The Odyssey – Homer - 4
64. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
65. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston -
66. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 4
67. Daisy Miller – Henry James -
68. From Here to Eternity – James Jones -
69. Ulysses - James Joyce -
70. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka - 4
71. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling -
72. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence -3
73. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 5
74. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
75. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis -
76. The Call of the Wild – Jack London - 4
77. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer -
78. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann -
79. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham -
80. Selected Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant -
81. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
82. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers - 5
83. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
84. Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener -
85. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
86. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
87. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
88. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
89. A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor - 4
90. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy -
91. Animal Farm - George Orwell - 4
92. Selected Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe - 5
93. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand -
94. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson -
95. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 5
96. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
97. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott -
98. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley - 4
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
100. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair -
101. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith -
102. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 3
103. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson -
104. Dracula - Bram Stoker -
105. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe -
106. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift -
107. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
108. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
109. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 5
110. Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope -
111. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain - 3
112. Rabbit, Run – John Updike -
113. The City and the Pillar – Gore Vidal -
114. All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren -
115. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
116. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells - 4
117. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton -
118. Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
119. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde - 4
120. Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder -
121. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf -
122. Germinal - Emile Zola -
123. (bonus) The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams - 4
124. (bonus) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini -
125. (bonus) Number the Stars - Lois Lowry - 3
149 is my score. I want to read everything on this list.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Writing Workshop
I may have picked the worst possible career to get into at this time. Today at Bonaire they had a staff meeting after school and talked about budget cuts. Its a little scary to think that I may not be able to get a job when I graduate. Apparently this year there are only 52 people retiring compared to the normal 200. So basically they are short on spots. And also they need to cut 4.5 million dollars from the county's budget and since 89% of the budget is personnel, there is going to be a lot of relocating people. There have been tons of rumors about job cutting and such. The board of Houston county's goal is to not cut jobs but to just move people around. Which means even less jobs available for newer teachers.
Another thing I want to vent about is classes. I absolutely hate my classes. Tuesdays and Thursdays are the bane of my existence. Plus the amount of work that is being placed upon us is ridonkulous. The assignments do not better me as a future teacher. They are not helping to learn more ways to help and teach kids. They are busy work.
Ok next thing on my list is gym. I am so glad that I get to go to the gym. Its actually something I look forward to. I wish I could go more often.
So I guess life is going ok. A bit too stressful and lonely for my taste but still I guess it could be worse. I just wish I had someone to share it with.
Another thing I want to vent about is classes. I absolutely hate my classes. Tuesdays and Thursdays are the bane of my existence. Plus the amount of work that is being placed upon us is ridonkulous. The assignments do not better me as a future teacher. They are not helping to learn more ways to help and teach kids. They are busy work.
Ok next thing on my list is gym. I am so glad that I get to go to the gym. Its actually something I look forward to. I wish I could go more often.
So I guess life is going ok. A bit too stressful and lonely for my taste but still I guess it could be worse. I just wish I had someone to share it with.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
ready to begin..
i'm ready to start something new. and i'm tired of the constant sameness. my days are the same. everyday, the same schedule. i want something new. someone new. i think i want you.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
This is Brian McCann. He is a sexy beast.This is Brian McCann signing my shirt. Isn't he a sweetie?
Brian and Blaine Boyer came to Macon a week or so ago. So I went up there and got them to sign stuff. They were both pretty awesome. And did I mention hot?
I'm ready for baseball season. I love baseball. And I love going to games. They are so much fun and its just like a mini vacation. I can't wait for the season to start in a few months. And I plan to go to as many games as possible.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Can't Stop...
...thinking about you
...wanting you
...needing you
...hating you
...missing you
everything is about you.
and i hate it.
but i want this so bad.
i want to atleast try.
and you wont give me that chance.
but i cant give up.
one night i will get drunk and end up telling you everything.
just wait and see.
.....
All alone in my room, think of you at a rate that is truly alarming
I keep looping my memories of you in my head
I pretend that you want me
What I would give to have you look in my direction
And I'd give my life to somehow attract your attention
-Maroon 5
...wanting you
...needing you
...hating you
...missing you
everything is about you.
and i hate it.
but i want this so bad.
i want to atleast try.
and you wont give me that chance.
but i cant give up.
one night i will get drunk and end up telling you everything.
just wait and see.
.....
All alone in my room, think of you at a rate that is truly alarming
I keep looping my memories of you in my head
I pretend that you want me
What I would give to have you look in my direction
And I'd give my life to somehow attract your attention
-Maroon 5
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Two Birds Stoned at Once
my feelings crawl the walls.
they crawl the walls, and finally fall.
they finally fall.like empires and old loves
.….and we’re all whores, some of us just get paid.
-Chiodos
they crawl the walls, and finally fall.
they finally fall.like empires and old loves
.….and we’re all whores, some of us just get paid.
-Chiodos
Quit Lollygagging
I bite my tongue another perfect time
I’d do anything to make her happy,
Even if it means my being miserable as long as she’s loving life
I will be able to sleep at night, with a smile upon her face (2x)
The thought of her smile and not being there
My inner feelings would be shattered
A piece of glass punctured in my heart
I’m bleeding from the inside
I will be able to sleep at night, with a smile upon her face (2x)
As long as she’s perfectly fine (2x)
And someday she will be mine
I will be able to sleep at night
With a smile upon her face
As long as she’s perfectly fine
I hope she’s perfectly fine
And someday she will be mine
"Lindsay Quit Lollygagging"
-Chiodos
i dont know what to believe anymore. hope is almost gone.
I’d do anything to make her happy,
Even if it means my being miserable as long as she’s loving life
I will be able to sleep at night, with a smile upon her face (2x)
The thought of her smile and not being there
My inner feelings would be shattered
A piece of glass punctured in my heart
I’m bleeding from the inside
I will be able to sleep at night, with a smile upon her face (2x)
As long as she’s perfectly fine (2x)
And someday she will be mine
I will be able to sleep at night
With a smile upon her face
As long as she’s perfectly fine
I hope she’s perfectly fine
And someday she will be mine
"Lindsay Quit Lollygagging"
-Chiodos
i dont know what to believe anymore. hope is almost gone.
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