We’re pretty much finished with the 120 Seconds presentations, and my aide has typed up the list of books we heard from so far. Not everyone has remembered to add his/her book to the list on the board — I know I heard some Unfortunate Events and some Goosebumps (from the EL kids) and even some Hardy Boys and Heidi of all things– but this is a good start. Repeats have been eliminated. Harry Potter frequency was down this year. Percy Jackson was waaay up. Half my classes are ready to camp out for the movie premier (in two weeks) of The Lightning Thief. (My boy is so excited about that, he can’t cope.) We also heard A LOT of Twilight (duh), and vampires in general were big. So was Alex Rider. But no Lord of the Rings this year. (Yeah!) We also heard from Holden Caulfield, read by a girl. (Jerome RiP.) The Shakespeare one was a simplified version, but still rocked. I gotta find the video of the kid who did The Hunt for Red October. His Russian accent was classic. That was Then, This is Now -S.E. Hinton Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice Touching Spirit Bear –
Middle school teaching: Five shows a day, 180 days a year.
That reminds me of those great SNL skits about the Sofa King. You know, how the prices are "Sofa King" low, the deals are "Sofa King" great, etc. (You obviously have to say those phrases out loud to get the joke.)