Reading Territories, updated July 2014

Womens Lit

Beloved; The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf

Mama Day & Baileys Cafe by Gloria Naylor

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Bean Trees; Pigs in Heaven; The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Other Fiction

Middlesex & The Virgin Suicides by Jeffry Eugenides

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1984 by George Orwell

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Help by Kate Stockett

The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold

The Shack by Wm. Paul Young

Series

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson

Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding

Appalachian Lit

A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House

The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith

Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina

American Lit & American Slave Narratives

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

The Blithedale Romance by Nathanial Hawthorne

Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Non-Fiction

Anything by bell hooks

A Home on the Field by Paul Cuadros

Composition textbooks

Currently-teaching comp with a translingual articles and essays

Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer

Childrens Lit

Holes by Louis Sachar

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Future Reading List

More Toni Morrison

More bell hooks

More Virginia Woolf reread To the Lighthouse

More Margaret Atwood

More Gloria Naylor

More Barbara Kingsolver

More Emma Donoghue

Online Reading

Recycled Pets, Inc; Carolina Waterfowl Rescue; Cat Rescue Coalition websites & Facebook pages

Writing Territories, updated July 2014
Genres

Journal entries

Prayers

Letters

E-mails

Thank-you cards/notes

Resumes/Curriculum vita

Letters of intent/application letters/statements of purpose

Other required work-related paperwork

Communications with students via e-mail and written feedback on assignments, and Moodle

Syllabi

Lesson plans

Texts

Essays

Teaching philosophy statement

Letters of recommendation and reference forms

Audiences

Friends

boyfriend

family: mom, dad, brother, grandma

students and former students

colleagues

bosses

myself

God

Ambitions

childrens litnovels for middle-grades students? Picture books about animals?

book (non-fiction account of my year in the public schools)

publish essay on key concepts from 2013 conference presentation