Barstow English

What Middle and Upper School English teachers are reading @ Barstow.

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Our Book Madness Bracket was a series of tight matches, with Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen edging Sweat, by Lynn Nottage, by one vote. The process was raucous, intelligent, and fun. Our AP seniors are ready for college. https://t.co/wbosZmgbXD

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Don’t go getting all Carson McCullers on us… Sophomores start this beauty tomorrow. Miss Amelia, readying for showdown, “During these weeks there was a quality about Miss Amelia that many people noticed. She laughed often, with a deep ringing laugh, … https://t.co/YEkrw4gGyY

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Mr. Luce bought the flowers himself for the AP kickoff Clarissa’s strange day. “Then for that moment, she had seen an illumination; a match burning in a crocus; an inner meaning almost expressed.” Have a recommendation? Send it our way. https://t.co/8hYV7e5kug

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Mr. Luce snagged this gem at Prospero’s yesterday. Lavishly illustrated and chock full of poems and vignettes, The Bedside Book of Birds will sit nicely alongside Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “The Macedonian women laughed and scorned my threats, but as they tri… https://t.co/R1wW7OkzCv

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It was Prospero who claimed, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." To put that dream into action, Barstow students will bring parts of The Tempest to life with a table reading of select scenes in the very Kansas City bookstore that shares the name o… https://t.co/nsjkxKXNdl

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Bree Pusey, who works at the IDEA Space as a computer science facilitator recommends You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson. Bree writes, “It’s a young adult novel focused on a black, queer protagonist in small town Indiana. It’s cute and a relati… https://t.co/t0qVdcZ3Jm

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Juniors and Seniors see a dagger before them as they read Macbeth. Angus says it best of the power-mad leader, “Those he commands move only in command./Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title/Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe/Upon a dwarfish … https://t.co/lnWiH9RrVt

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Ryann Galloway Tacha, Vice President of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity at Barstow recommends Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. Tacha says, “Caste tackles race with a lens that reveals horrifying and enduring truths that many Americans often conveniently ignore… https://t.co/hLCjUUR5cH

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Selena Spurrier, Barstow class of 2021, tells us about Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone. Selena writes, “Historical fiction has never been a genre I've explored much, but this book changed my perspective. I related to Leni's emotional turmoil as well as… https://t.co/qLef9csq6d

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Current Barstow senior Ahna Chang recommends Stephen Chbosky’s Imaginary Friend. Ahna writes, “Imaginary Friend’s eerie writing style and plot leaves the reader with an unsettling feeling in their stomach, even after finishing the book. Seven-year-old Ch… https://t.co/Wy3Al5gj7f

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Lauren Fox, '15, loved Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. Fox says, "I read it this past summer for grad class. This book has one of the most fascinating narrative voices I've ever read — an English butler whose obsession with his job supersedes h… https://t.co/jV8AnVNflw

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New year, new feature. Alumna Anne Potter Russ, ‘78, suggests Elif Batuman’s The Idiot. Anne deems it a well written, funny, thoughtful journey of a Harvard student. If you are Barstow alumni or current student and want what you are reading featured here… https://t.co/aOsFoUpjEO

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Don’t let the slow start fool you, says Mr. Guldin on Joshua Ferris’ “A Calling for Charlie Barnes.” Mr. G loves Ferris’ stylings - sometimes absurd, often profound, and always crisp. Ferris writes, “The worst thing that could have happened to Icarus was… https://t.co/Eab8jzdysS

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Mr. Luce spent some time with Cormac’s new one. Not perfect, by any means. But funny, at times quite math-y, and at others profound. McCarthy writes, “But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding th… https://t.co/3XDtBva25P

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AP Seniors lounged under pear trees, witnessed some haints, met a matriarch for the ages, cobbled together a person, and had a bucketful of laughs this semester. Ms. Ganter and Mr. Luce helped guide the exploration. https://t.co/EO4Om1Jq4F

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Barstow alumna Elyse Nelson receives major plaudits for her curation of a fascinating, vital exhibit. And to boot - an exhibition catalog. https://t.co/mu85jyPtrZ

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Dr. Root joined the English Department this year to help out with English 12. The novels his students read reflect his interest in sci-fi. https://t.co/sV2CdzwMC8

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In English 12, Ms. Zimmerman brings the heat. Alice Walker says it best, “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident.… https://t.co/PNjNHMhD9J

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What a list for juniors at Barstow. Ms. Ganter brings the American experience - in all its contradictions - to life in her reading list. As McCarthy writes, “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” https://t.co/J5PjhfcnXX

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Sophomore semester with Mr. Luce has everything - talking cats, scorpion people, a blind seer, red sheep, violins at a POW camp, contraband posters, a ferryman the kids call V-Dogg, and factory-working frenemies. Kidding aside, the students have two char… https://t.co/6NDR1APKlN