I know, I know. I'm a late-comer to the John Green craze. But I am so glad that I finally jumped on the bandwagon. Not only is TFiOS (Come on people, you know what I'm talking about; if you don't - look it up) one of my favorite y.a. books of all time, but it's soon to be a movie.
If the movie is a bust, it will break my heart. I'm not kidding. I felt the same way about Holes, and that turned out OK, so fingers crossed.
As soon as I finished TFiOS, I started listening to Paper Towns via Playaway. (Tricky thing with Playaways, I have no earthly how far along in the book I am and our print copies are currently checked out so I can't peek - frustrating. I'm a print girl, what can I say?) My dog is getting much longer walks these days so I can listen to it, thus, CharChar has become a JG fan by default.
Not only is JG a fabulous author, as evidenced by his many fans (and who knows better than our students???) and sales, but he's a history buff so I can't help by have an author-crush on him. I used his Crash Course French Revolution for our Tale of Two Cities anticipatory project. (More about the project later.) I'm looking forward to hearing how Tale is going and will start grading those tonight. Good luck, my freshmen soldiers. I know Tale can be a bit rough, but it is SO worth it. One of the best stories ever told.
The French Revolution Crash Course Video from Troy Sayre on Vimeo.
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