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Common Threads: Books & Dreams. A presentation by Dustin Brackbill September 2009. Common Threads. Who I am Who you are Disclaimers Strands to connect Last Lecture -- Bedtime Stories Reading Zone -- Billy Staples . Common Threads – ongoing themes. Going green Vampires!
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Common Threads: Books & Dreams A presentation by Dustin Brackbill September 2009
Common Threads • Who I am • Who you are • Disclaimers • Strands to connect • Last Lecture -- Bedtime Stories • Reading Zone -- Billy Staples
Common Threads – ongoing themes • Going green • Vampires! • Fantasy worlds • Movie & celeb tie-ins • Biography twists For extra and past ideas, see past presentations at: http://www.scasd.org/2497125816144739/site/default.asp
Common Threads – newer themes • Retro picture books • Graphic Novel hybrids • Folktales retold • Poetry – cool for all • Dumb journals • “Edgy” teen books • Fanfiction For extra and past ideas, see past presentations at: http://www.scasd.org/2497125816144739/site/default.asp
Threads: Storylines Newest samples of: • Picture Books • Chapter Books • Poetry and Non-Fiction • Teen
Gold Threads – My Favorites! • All the World - Liz GartonScanlon • Little Beauty- Anthony Browne • There- Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick • Once Upon a Twice- Denise Doyen • The Magician’s Elephant- Kate DiCamillo • Zorgamazoo - Robert Paul Weston • Knucklehead - Jon Scieszka
Frayed Rope – the outsiders • No!- David McPhail • Panorama- Marceau & Jolivet • Willoughby & the Lion- Greg Foley • The Savage- David Almond
Tapestries – big pictures • Poem from Langston Hughes: To You To sit and dream, to sit and read, To sit and learn about the world outside Our world of here and now—our problem world— To dream of vast horizons of the soul Through dreams made whole, unfettered, free—help me! All you who are dreamers too, help me to make our world anew. I reach out my dreams to you. ~Langston Hughes
Connecting Threads • Our job – to match dreams with books • Or research, or sources… • Don’t Be Afraid to Ask • Favorite books & stories • Dreams and goals • Subjects and classes • Dream Out Loud