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face="Times New Roman">On </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Wednesday, May 19 <FONT color=#000000><SPAN
class=983343100-17052004><FONT color=#0000ff> Rick Ayers and Amy
Crawford</FONT></SPAN>, both BHS teachers<SPAN
class=983343100-17052004><FONT color=#0000ff> and authors of the recently
released <STRONG>"Great Books For High School Kids, A Teacher’s Guide to Books
That Can Change Teen’s Lives," </STRONG> </FONT></SPAN>will be
at </FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3> Cody’s on Telegraph, at
7:30 </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=983343100-17052004> <FONT
color=#000000>p.m.</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
class=983343100-17052004><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=3>Below
is a press release from Beacon Press:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Across the country, books like Harper Lee’s
<I>To Kill a Mockingbird</I>, J.D. Salinger’s <I>Catcher in the Rye</I>, and
<I>The Great Gatsby </I>by F. Scott Fitzgerald have graced high school reading
lists for years, earning their places as classics among teachers and students
alike.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But what about works like
Nick Hornby’s <I>High Fidelity</I>,<I> </I>Susanna Kaysen’s <I>Girl,
Interrupted</I>, or <I>Me Talk Pretty One Day </I>by David Sedaris?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can – or should – adults teach or
recommend less conventional, or even controversial, books to young people?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would they even like them?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What, in essence, makes a book great for
teenagers?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Now, in <B>Great Books for High School Kids: A Teachers’
Guide to Books that Can Change Teens’ Lives</B>, editors Rick Ayers and Amy
Crawford draw from their experiences as high school English teachers to
recommend challenging, provocative works of literature that have succeeded in
the classroom and beyond.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With
nearly 400 titles in categories like “Banned Books,” “Big Fat Books to Take On a
Toad Trip,” “Sports,” “African-American,” “Gay, Queer, Lesbian, Transgender,”
etc., Ayers and Crawford offer an accessible and engaging guide to the world of
great books for parents, teachers, and teens.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">In seven essays, teachers also reflect on the way their
students have reacted to, learned from, and come to love the books they
encountered in school.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Books, they
show, truly can change – and save – lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Emily Donaldson tells of the controversy that arose at her school when
she sought to teach <I>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn </I>in a unit on
racism; Sarah Talbot writes of working to break down prejudices and
preconceptions about Native Americans while studying Sherman Alexie’s<I>
Reservation Blues</I>; and Dean Blase recounts how reading <I>Song of Solomon
</I>by Toni Morrison enabled one student to recognize and overcome an eating
disorder.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">However, as Ayers and Crawford point out, <B>Great Books
for High School Kids</B> is in no way meant to be an authoritative text.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Our recommendations are meant to be
exploratory and inviting suggestions, not academic requirements, and certainly
not the definitive list that will get you into Yale,” they write.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Likewise, the stories they share “do not
‘explain’ the book in some final way…They are simply stories about groups of
students and teachers encountering great literature together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ultimately, these stories show young
people negotiating all the challenges we face in our world.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></U></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman">About the Editors</FONT></U></H4>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Rick Ayers </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">and <B>Amy Crawford </B>both
teach English at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, CA.<FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=983343100-17052004> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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class=983343100-17052004></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN class=983343100-17052004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>G</FONT></SPAN>reat Books for High School Kids<SPAN
class=983343100-17052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> ,
</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>Edited by Rick Ayers and Amy
Crawford</STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=983343100-17052004><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>, $</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">15.00, Paperback<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<H5 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>ISBN: 0-8070-3255-7</FONT></H5>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><A
href="http://www.beacon.org/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.beacon.org</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
size=3>“This book presents the authentic voices of caring teachers for whom
literature and life are at the center of learning.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
size=3>—<B>Herbert Kohl</B>, author of <EM>36
Children<o:p></o:p></EM></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">“Were
I a high school kid, I’d have been blessed with teachers like Rick Ayers and Amy
Crawford. Their choice of books – some less celebrated than others – would have
undoubtedly enriched my life. Lovely work by natural born teachers.”
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">—<B>Studs Terkel</B>, author of <EM>Working</EM> and
<EM>Hope Dies Last<o:p></o:p></EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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