Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The first time I read Beartown was in 2018. 2018 was a big year for "favorite books"--my top three were books that I still look back upon very fondly, and actually, all three are books I made the school purchase to teach to various grades. Okay for Now for 7th, Beartown for 10th, Life After Death for American Lit, or 11/12th graders. My tenth graders just started Beartown . I just finished re-reading to create assignments and quizzes for it. To set the scene, today in Creative Writing, it was a Reading Day. Reading Day is something every class has once a week. They have to sit and read quietly for the whole period. Every time they talk or I see a phone or something of the sort, they lose a point. They have ten points to lose. If they lose all ten points, they get sent to the principal's for being a disturbance. Only two kids have ever lost all ten points. All of my sophomores are in Creative Writing as well as English II. One of these kids is my younger sister, and today...