English+I+09+This+I+Believe

On the first day we read

[|Be Cool to the Pizza Dude] p. 7 [|A Shared Moment of Trust] p. 34 [|Unleashing the Power of Creativity] p. 71 [|In Prase of the "Wobblies"] p. 97 [|The Making of Poems] p. 175

In addition, each class day the boys turn in a journal assignment about a new essay they have read. By the end of the course, they'll have read about half of the required summer reading book in this incremental fashion.

For our first theme, the boys are writing their own "This I Believe" essay using [|these instructions]

If you liked some of these essays, you might also like: The full [|This I Believe] website filled with more essays, etc To read how it began, check out [|its history]