Book Club Selections + Pursuit of Happyness

Starter

Did you write your reflection from project tunes yesterday? If so, give yourself a pat on the back and turn to your neighbor and tell them what you plan to do to improve your project based on yesterday's feedback.  

If not, please write that NOW in your starter docs: What did you takeaway from the project tune about how to refine your project? What are your next steps in creating your project?

Agenda

1. Book Club selections!

• Ashley will read the descriptions for the three options and the 1st page of each one
• Write your name under the title on the board that is your first choice.  Next to your name in parentheses, write your 2nd choice title.  

2. 20 minutes of reading time!  

• Select one quote from the reading that you find interesting, thought provoking or insightful.  

3. Spirit Reads!

4. With Justice for All Project Work Time

• Write down your daily goals for today!
• Get to 'em!

Book Club Book Descriptions

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.  How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.