Showing posts with label Fall 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall 2009. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Fall Conversations...
Thank you for the lively and informative conversations about Presidents Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father. It is always a pleasure and encouraging to see students join in on the discussion and walk away with several new perspectives.
From the Inside Flap
Dreams From My Father
"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided [cultural] inheritance." School Library Journal
"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided [cultural] inheritance." School Library Journal
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
FALL is here
Save the date.....
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Seminar Room 256-258
Our first title of the year, up for discussion is NC A & T's Text in Community
You can find this title in Bluford Library at the Access Service Desk
Call number ... Reserve E185.97.O23 A3 2004
I will know soon if I have extra copies to borrow.
so keep in touch
Bring your lunch... bring a friend... bring a student...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Seminar Room 256-258
Our first title of the year, up for discussion is NC A & T's Text in Community
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
by Barack Obama
Call number ... Reserve E185.97.O23 A3 2004
I will know soon if I have extra copies to borrow.
so keep in touch
Bring your lunch... bring a friend... bring a student...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
ACROSS THE POND
This year's theme is .....Across the Pond
Our readings will take us across the Altanlic to adventures from our friends to the East.
We will start with our Text in Community and then venture through Liberia , Morrocco, Spain , Afganistan and Pakistan .
Titles for this upcoming year 2009-2010
Our readings will take us across the Altanlic to adventures from our friends to the East.
We will start with our Text in Community and then venture through Liberia , Morrocco, Spain , Afganistan and Pakistan .
Titles for this upcoming year 2009-2010
Dreams From My Father - A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen
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