For the reading challenge's book about climate change, I went with Tobias S Buckell's Mitigated Futures.
It's a short story collection. Yes, some stories involve climate change but there's also space ships & aliens & future humans - a good mix! Crowd funded, so it might be hard to find.
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Summer challenge (book by a Nigerian author): Ikenga by Nnedi Okoragor.
This is a middle grade book about a kid who receives an Ikenga (the figurine) & so gets super powers.
The rhythm of the language & the word choices *feel* like I'm in Nigeria.
I'm taking it to school for my bookshelf.
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Not a summer reading challenge book, but a great used find!
Translation State by Ann Leckie is set in the Raadch universe & features some previous characters in supporting roles. Fascinating look at the Presgr Translators! I heart it!
Reading the previous books helps but isn't required.
Here's the raven. Lots of great embroidered details (the feet are fantastic), a stuffed head, weight in the body & the muscles in the wings, & "flat" flight feathers.
For me, the raven doesn't work - not the right shape for cuddling. So somebody will be getting a cool Christmas gift.
Here's the otter. The face is embroidered, the head & legs are stuffed, & the body & tail are weighted. The feet & face are velvety, compared to the body fur.
For me, this is a great shape, & a good weight. My otter is very comforting.
For my book with "summer" in the title, I went with Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch. I really like all the Rivers of London books. I gloss over a lot of the police jargon, tho, & the architectural details, etc. There's graphic novels too.
I just read The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells for the library's summer challenge. It was published in 1896 (!) but is very readable. (With minimal editing to help with this!)
Everybody knows the story & the movies have generally been meh - but the book itself is worth reading.
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The ninebark in my yard, plus some visitors.
Writing the alt text makes me realize how much being a teacher has changed my life - How have I not been outside to see all the pollinators? 😞 So now I got a personal growth goal for this summer.
Thanks to Rebekah for the ninebark!
My 1st book of summer break is part of a library challenge: Read a romantasy. So here's a heist story where some people (but not most people, & it's secret) have one specific magical ability.
The Frame-up by Gwenda Bond is light & fluffy, a fun little romance. Plus, a dog!
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Of course I got a book for my birthday. This is Lakes of Souls, all of Ann Leckie's short works - & now I have to read The Raven Tower.
Yes, there's some Radch stories but there's also fantastic standalones.
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Just finished Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny. Very good - Highly recommend!
Set in the near future, you can buy pills to extend your youthful life by decades or centuries ... if you can afford the prescription. Hence, fun new societal problems!
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First up is Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krause Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld. 2 kids (always out of frame) are arguing about this optical illusion. I use this book to start a discussion about the nature & practice of science - arguing from evidence especially.
Molly on the Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal & Diana Mayo shows that science is all around us, even if we don't notice. The story shows how Molly, her mom, & her little brother adapt to their new location. There's also an SEL angle, with Molly learning empathy for her little brother.
Mother of Sharks by Melissa Cristina Márquez & Devin Elle Kurtz shows how a kid's interests can become an adult's real job. Young Meli loves to be in the ocean - Adult Melissa is a shark scientist. There's also a magical hermit crab, & translanguaging.
The Librarian Who Measured the World by Kathryn Lasky & Kevin Hawkes is about Eratosthenes, who calculated the Earth's circumference using shadows & surveyors (who measured distances by pacing) in the 3rd century BCE. He was really accurate! You don't need fancy equipment to do science.
Search for a Giant Squid by Amy Seto Forrester & Andy Chou Musser is a "pick your path" book. The reader chooses the dive location, the submersible, etc etc & is supported by a diverse crew aboard the research vessel. The reader *is* the scientist.
Finally, Fieldwork FAIL started off as a Twitter thread, then became a Kickstarter book. Jim Jourdane illustrated the misadventures of 25 scientists from around the world. My students often feel like their work has to be perfect - but scientists make mistakes all the time.
My weekend started with The Practice, the Horizon, & the Chain by Sofia Samatar. This is a space ship story, setting-wise, but it's mostly a human struggle story. It could have been just grim but hope runs thru it.
(Also, gotta love the Oxford comma!)
We started the evolution unit today & my advanced biology students said I should post this.
Please note: I'm an old so I don't know Pokemon & my drawing skills are pretty basic.
#EduSky#SciArt
I used the last hours of spring break to finish this book. It was pretty good - real military vs fantastical beasts, with jokes about books, movies, & video games thrown in. I'm not quite the target audience but I bet my brother is.
The Runes of Engagement by Dave Klecha & Tobias S Buckell
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It's spring break so I've finished the book for my current grad class. I'm looking forward to improving my science classes over the summer.
Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model (6th ed) by Echevarría, Vogt, Short, & Toppel
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It's spring break so I've finished my book group book early. I'm going to reread it to watch the foreshadowing build. Highly recommend!
The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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I still remember lines from this article! (Or perhaps an earlier one, when the affair was first revealed.) & did I go see Bat Boy, the Musical? Yes. Yes, I did.
Not my local news feed (the app doesn't even have filters for national or international news) but here's my Google news feed. This headline seems more muted, less unhinged. Yeah, sure, it's cool to threaten our allies? Ug.
Folks, I am overseas, and this news is spreading like WILD FIRE. It’s been the TOP morning story in both Arabic & French speaking news.
I’m not sure how it’s playing in the US, but, my god, I’m watching the news coverage here & I’m literally cringing.
What a humiliation!!!
I love using this clipboard - I miss running a bluebird trail. But I also trained all the volunteer bluebird monitors so I guess I was already on the road to formal education.
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