Maria recommends…
Anything by these wise, weird, wryly funny
women………
Ruth
Rendell or Barbara Vine
Alice Munro
Anne Enright
Margaret
Forster
My summer reading list
Swinging Bridge by Ramabai Espinet
A woman’s
journeying from Montreal to Toronto to Trinidad and India
to find where she comes from and where she is
Break,
Blow Burn by Camille Paglia
The inimitable Camille
tells us (orders us!) to look
at these 43 poems and
tell us how !!
Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
Gardening
with the Land Girls during the Blitz
The
Friend that got away by Jenny Offill and Elissa
Schappell
20 women’s true life stories
of friendships gone bad and friendships lost
Pedagogy
of Indignation by Paolo Freire
The last
book written by Freire
Books I might borrow from AlphaPlus this summer
Past & Present of the Verbs to Read and Write.
Essays
on Literacy by Emilia Ferreiro
Three talks by Ferreiro
a literacy activist in Mexico on literacy as a democratic
concern
Up from the permafrost. Reflections
of Learning
Stories from the Yukon
Reading
don’t fix no Chevys by Michael Smith & Jeffrey
Wilhelm
Literacy in the lives of young men
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of positive outlook
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study
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8 request an explanation
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of learning
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goal
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19 freedom-making
20 end
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agsinst societal 'norms'
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the world
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fool
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