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BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« on: March 13, 2008, 03:11:09 PM »
Is anyone else doing the Big Read?

http://www.monroeccc.edu/bigread/

Make sure you click on the EVENTS tab to see what all is going on.  I think this is a fabulous initiative.

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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2008, 03:25:56 PM »
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my all time very favorite book!!!!! How exciting!

Thanks, Em! (and welcome back, I was wondering what had happened to you! was afraid your IP had gotten blocked!!  :D )
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2008, 03:28:31 PM »
Quote from: MonroeMom on March 13, 2008, 03:25:56 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my all time very favorite book!!!!! How exciting!

Thanks, Em! (and welcome back, I was wondering what had happened to you! was afraid your IP had gotten blocked!!  :D )

I hear ya MM. With all of the trouble Em causes around here, I cannot believe that she has not been blocked yet....... :D :D
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2008, 03:30:24 PM »
Shhhhhhh!

I've been out of town for a conference.

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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2008, 03:36:04 PM »
I really enjoyed last years Big Read project, I wasn't so happy with this years choice of a book. Nothing against the book itself, I just doubt that it is right material to use for people to get involved in reading, plus it's a mandatory reading book in high school.
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2008, 03:43:54 PM »

Really?!  I thought just the opposite.  Farenheit was, IMO, too much above an "easy read" for most people.  I really look forward to the panel discussion in April.

Michigan Humanities Council is having a Read event too (Hemingway).  They have the book discounted and available at Meijer and other partner stores.
http://www.greatmichiganread.org

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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2008, 03:48:44 PM »
Quote from: MomEm on March 13, 2008, 03:43:54 PM
Really?!  I thought just the opposite.  Farenheit was, IMO, too much above an "easy read" for most people.  I really look forward to the panel discussion in April.

Michigan Humanities Council is having a Read event too (Hemingway).  They have the book discounted and available at Meijer and other partner stores.
http://www.greatmichiganread.org

MomEm

I think it was more thought provoking, (not to say that To kill a mocking bird is not thought provoking) it just does not seem like a book that I would use to get some one involved in reading.
I wonder who chooses the books, and how many people participated last year.
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2008, 03:49:52 PM »
I agree, Em. I think Mockingbird is an excellent entry into American Literature. But, Lithunica, I'd be interested to hear more on why you think otherwise. Don't worry, I won't attack you for your opinions on literature! I just *really* dig discussing books!!

Oooooo, Hemingway?? I'll have to check that out!

Ok, I'm getting giddy... I love American Lit!
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2008, 03:53:00 PM »
Quote from: Lithunica on March 13, 2008, 03:48:44 PM
I think it was more thought provoking, (not to say that To kill a mocking bird is not thought provoking) it just does not seem like a book that I would use to get some one involved in reading.
I wonder who chooses the books, and how many people participated last year.

Its a grant process through the NEA.  There are different choices and a book has to fit for your community, according to the grant writers ability to justify and show support for the grant.  I do not know numbers for last year, but I bet google might!

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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2008, 10:28:22 PM »
Quote from: MonroeMom on March 13, 2008, 03:49:52 PM
I agree, Em. I think Mockingbird is an excellent entry into American Literature. But, Lithunica, I'd be interested to hear more on why you think otherwise. Don't worry, I won't attack you for your opinions on literature! I just *really* dig discussing books!!

Oooooo, Hemingway?? I'll have to check that out!

Ok, I'm getting giddy... I love American Lit!
It's just took me by surprise that after Rey Bradbury they moved to Harper Lee, perhaps that what the idea so people who did not like sci/fi could get a book they can get interested in, I just didn't find it all that exciting and thought provoking, no question very well written, and again it was a forced upon me in high school, so there is another contributer to my negative feel of the book (when you are forced to read something and the forced to write papers on every few weeks, that kind of kills the reading experience)
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2008, 11:12:17 PM »
Well, I'm only on p. 93, but so far so good.  I need to finish it before the play on Sunday!  I should be reading instead of posting!
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« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2008, 11:15:35 PM »
Quote from: DundeeDad on March 13, 2008, 11:12:17 PM
Well, I'm only on p. 93, but so far so good.  I need to finish it before the play on Sunday!  I should be reading instead of posting!



You go!
I read that book in high school..and loved it :)
The movie is great too. Gregory Peck = amazing!
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2008, 11:19:06 PM »
One of my favorite books of all time.
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« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2008, 11:23:20 PM »
Quote from: bethany6788 on March 13, 2008, 11:15:35 PM


You go!
I read that book in high school..and loved it :)
The movie is great too. Gregory Peck = amazing!

I'm trying to go, but I'm kinda bored.  >:(.  Posting out of a hotel room in West Virginia.  I miss my family!  :'(
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Re: BIG READ To Kill A Mockingbird
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2008, 11:24:21 PM »
Quote from: DundeeDad on March 13, 2008, 11:23:20 PM
I'm trying to go, but I'm kinda bored.  >:(.  Posting out of a hotel room in West Virginia.  I miss my family!  :'(

Awww DD .....we didn't know you were so far away...... :(
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