good day to be indoors and resting marathon soreness:)

“Dodgerland” – great, great book – history of the baseball LA teams in 1977-78 – how LA was transitioning into things that would be relevant in the years to come – several narratives woven throughout the story – awesome, awesome book for my history lovers – and baseball lovers – in the classroom

“show your work” – book on creativity – how to jump start something – good, practical advice

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video by Hope and Katherine – voiced by Alexa

inspired by the great PuppyMonkeyBaby and the beloved Shakespearean classic:

happy super bowl day

“home game” – book from a baseball player i grew up watching – story of his family’s generations of playing – good anecdotes – good for my baseball guys in class

“running: a love story” – jen a. miller – her story is my story – in a way – coming from nowhere to running – miller’s story is more personal than mine though – a story of bravery – in more ways than one – another good one for my students

“the basketball tide” – thrift stores rock – found a 1977 alabama basketball book – the author had spoken to some of the first members of the tide’s hoops teams – which amazes me – so just in matters of history, a wonderful book – basketball is definitely the undercard in our state, but this book is a treasure

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love this weather…

“choosing hope” – one of the newtown elem teachers – first grade – she got her kids in a closet and kept them quiet during the shooting three years ago – this is her book – she actually never taught much afterward – she got into problems with her school district – the book was powerful – mostly for me in matters of understanding school policy – there can’t be a uniform way of dealing with a tragedy – the school system didn’t do a good job responding correctly in her case – at all

“greatness in the shadows” – larry doby was the second af-am player in the Bigs – after jackie robinson – the book wasn’t so much a biography as the title – how he was great – and overshadowed – good for the start of baseball season – at least, practice:)

“yes, my accent is real” – raj from big bang has a book!!! it was good – my mom actually read it in like a day – one of the interesting things i’d have loved to explore in class… raj was singled out as the weak person in his theater team’s performance at districts – in other words, the judges thought he wasn’t good- one of several cases in the book where if he’d listened to others, he’d never be where he is today

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from “much ado about nothing” and the beatles – that’s detective, tiffany (vic), hope, and binder girl nicole

and yet, no early dismissals…

“hangin’ tough” – great, great book – LOVED IT – loved the concept – a book about an influential album in your life – and why that’s so – my sister would be the other perfect reader for this book

“the only pirate at the party” – great book – it was a great reading week – saw master vic reading this one on monday – i didn’t read as fast as she and Detective – but i got through the book in an impressive speed – and really enjoyed it

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starring Vic as the lovely Beatrice – all time references are the act(hour), scene (minute), and line (seconds) where the insult in Much Ado can be found