Bucket List

Over this past weekend I saw the movie "The Bucket List." Between that movie and planning a library lesson with the 9th graders for the upcoming Big Read of Fahrenheit 451 I began to think about my own "bucket list" in the form of books. Hummm, what would I read if I only had a limited time before books disappeared. I immediately was drawn to one of my bookshelves at home. It contains all my favorites, from the childhood series of Elsie Dinsmore, Beautiful Joe, Gone with the Wind, The Yellow-Wallpaper, The Awakening, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to current faves The Secret Life of Bees, World Without End, and A Thousand Splendid Suns... but then my eyes move to another shelf The Canon that includes the Great Books Series, how many books can I reread quickly so I'll never forget them? Where do I begin and where do I end? So many books, and so little time... So while I'm trying to reduce my favorites to something manageable in case of a crisis- What's in your bucket?

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The High School Science department is participating in the National Endowment for the Arts Program "The Big Read." (links on the right sidebar) All our ninth graders will be reading Ray Bradbury's classic- Fahrenheit 451 during the month of February. What a wonderful book. It brought back memories of the past when I taught a winter-term course to some international students at a boarding school on the east coast. We had such interesting discussions when we looked at the technology descriptions within the book and replaced it with plasma screens and ear-phones so many of them had. We also discussed various forms of censorship. I am very interested in listening to the discussions that will take place on our campus to compare the insights from the two groups. - JMB