BOTW ~ Tough Boy Sonatas

Since it's National Poetry Month, I'm featuring Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis L. Crisler with illustrations by Floyd Cooper. Both School Library Journal & the American Library Association named this a Best Book! It's bittersweet poetry, with a real edge to it!
Elizabeth Alexander says this about the book: "These white-hot poems scream and sing, in the poet's words, 'I Am ALIVE,' at every juncture. What an ear, what an eye, and what heart has Curtis Crisler in this indelible first book.

April is National Poetry Month!

Cool Tool--Draw Anywhere

Draw Anywhere is a great website for making flow charts, diagrams, and floor plans. It's free to use! Check it out!

Great Information about the Credit Crisis!

Thanks to Mr. Johnson for recommending this video. It's really informative and easy to understand!


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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In the Media Center, we have many books recommended by staff members. You'll find them on the first bookcase on the left-hand side. Mrs. McDonald recommends The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang because it: "Chronicles a Hmong family's refugee from Vietnam, through and on to St. Paul. It is beautifully written and the author lives locally."

Cool Tool for Studying

Study Stack is a cool website that has a ton of interactive tools to help you study. There are a ton of subjects including novels that we read here at RHS, foreign language flashcards for different topics, and preparation for AP, SAT, & ACT tests! There aren't a log of graphics, but the content is good! You can also make your own interactive notes, flashcards etc.

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The New York Times had this to say about Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: "[The book] is a visceral and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in that country and its fallout on the day-to-day lives of Ms. Nafisi and her students. It is a thoughtful account of the novels they studied together and the unexpected parallels they drew between those books and their own experiences as women living under the unforgiving rule of the mullahs. And it is, finally, an eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction — on the refuge from ideology that art can offer to those living under tyranny, and art's affirmative and subversive faith in the voice of the individual. — Michiku Kakutani

The following YouTube is a nice trailer for the book too!