1. Class #3, November 25 Odds and ends (Hilary, papers, lit circles, censorship) Christina’s book talk Russell Freedman presentation Nonfiction Murphy and Tillage Books brought in for browsing Break Walter Dean Myers presentation Kate DiCamillo presentation Book discussion Preview of historical fiction

2. Odds and Ends  Hilary Van Dusen  Papers  Literature circles http://www.litcircles.org/ http://www.litcircles.org/  Censorship

3. Christina’s booktalk Race: A History Beyond Black and White by Marc Aronson

4. Russell Freedman presentation Alicia Henriquez Michal-Ann Golay Aradhana Mudambi

5. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (started in 2001) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgr ants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm

6. Jim Murphy  Grew up in NJ  Worked in publishing  Left to write full time  Has written more than 30 books about American History (mostly nonfiction)  Awards  Lives in NJ with wife, 2 children http://www.jimmurphybooks.com/

7. Jim Murphy resources Jim Murphy’s website Study guide for An American Plague Acceptance speech for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Audio of this speech

8. Leon Walter Tillage & Susan Roth

9. Oral History resources Step-by-step guide: http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/or alHistory.html For teachers: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohh ome.html

10. Books for browsing

11. Break

12. Walter Dean Myers presentation Megan Chamberlain Hui Xin Tan Rose Wongsarnpigoon

13. Peter Sís presentation Joanna Batt Lizzie Brook Bridget Maher

14. Group 1Group 2 Group 3 Vaneeta Ahuja (a) Joanna Batt Lizzie Brook Kathryn Hurley Wendy Israel (a) Hilary Lustick Aradhana Mudambi Christy Ostrowski Holly Takashima Khalilah Ummah Reed Weeden Brette Wolff Charlene Deming Michal-Ann Golay Caroline Goldstein Alicia Henriquez Eveleen Hsu Bridget Maher Alana McDonough (a) Erin Simmons Ali Stein (a) Lesley Sylvan Rose Wongsarnpigoon Megan Chamberlain Carolyn Coates Janelle Colosi Mehgan Greenberg Annie Hoffman Suzannah Holsenbeck Susan Kenien Kelton Myers Julie Rosenberg (a) Hui Xin Tan Frances Tompkins

16. Next week: Historical fiction