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Look out library, thanks to the work I’ve been involved with in realigning instructional guides for The Collaborative for Educational Services and the Department of Youth Services…I’ve got a new reading list.  Some of these titles will be re-visits and other are pages I want to start turning. In no particular order, here’s my new reading list…

Classic Literature

  • Shakespeare

  • Raisin in the Sun

Literary Nonfiction

  • Night

  • Richard Wright’s Black Boy- pick a chapter

  • Coming of Age in Mississippi-

  • When I was Puerto Rican

Global Literature

  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold

  • Things fall apart

  • Chinese Cinderella

  • Master Harold and the Boys-Athol Fugard

  • The Namesake

Informational Text

  • Stiff & Guip by Mary Roach

  • Nickel & Dimed- Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Into the wild

  • Into thin air

  • Perfect storm

  • Fast food nation

  • Salt by Mark Kurlansky

  • Guns, Germs and Steel- Jared Diamond

  • The Botany of Desire- Michael Pollan

  • Outliners and Blink – Malcom Gladwell

  • The Jim Crow

Contemporary Literature

  • Their eyes were watching God

  • The curious incident of a dog in night time

  • Me talk pretty one day

  • The absolutely true diary of a part time indian

  • The lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven

  • How the Garcia girls lost their accent

  • Pygmalion

  • Richard Blanco- One Today Inaugural Poem

  • Leslie Newman October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard

 

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I’ve been on Google+ for about a year now and recently at PodCamp Western Mass #5 I attended a couple of Google+ sessions which renewed my interest in this social media.

Google+ helps you in many ways:

  • It’s part of the Google Suite of productivity products that can work together to help you keep your digital life organized and in the long run more productive.
  • Google ‘notices’ when you are using Google+ and will assist with Google rankings
  • Google can get into the private areas of FaceBook
  • Google+ allows for deeper conversations, more thought.  Think Science, artists, creatives, and thought leaders…don’t you want to be a part of that crowd?

One big take away, from PodCamp Western Mass #5 is that Google+ is = to ‘What do you think?’