Lesson Planning and Book Reviews

Today I worked on a lesson plan for the students. It will be about PowerPoint. Of course, I am trying to include their objectives, my objectives, Fairfield University methodologies amongst other things.

Also I was discovering books that I thought would be good that teh library does not carry such as Vonnegut, Robbins, Burgess, Darwin, Pynchon, Nabokou, Dostoevsky, and Palahniuk. If they did carry these books, it was only one. I did not hear of all these authors but as I was digging I thought some of them would be worth looking into. Perhaps they may be for an older type audience, since the high school does carry more of the aforementioned, but I think the students need to be aware of these authors at an earlier age since they may need to hear of them for some time before they actually pick them up.

The media specialist told me that they go to Greenwich Library's web site, search their catalog for the book to see if it has been reviewed by School Library Journal. If yes, it is a-go, but if not, futher deliberation occurs.

Two 8th grade boys checked out books that I suggested. The one told me that he hates books, so we have a challenge going to see how he likes the one I picked out for him. He said that he hasn't checked out a book in ages. This spurred an idea--not to let that happen. Have emails on file notifying who has not used their account in a while. We can send them a survey to find out their interests so we can help them maintain an interest in books!