Melissa Wantz: Notes from West Egg

Teaching English and Journalism at a California High School

Entries from June 2009

Summer Reading List

June 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Here’s what I have on my stack:

Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolfe
Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, by Vicky Myron and Brett Witter
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, by Hugh MacLeod
Shanghai Girls: A Novel, by Lisa See
Commencement, by J. Courtney Sullivan
“They Say / I Say”: The [...]

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Back from the dead

June 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I checked out for 11 months. I thought I could blog and start teaching at a new school, but I couldn’t manage it. I needed to save my creative energy to use in the classroom, and there never seemed to be enough time for reflection. I only wanted to read, learn, experiment, plan and do [...]

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