Literature
September-October
Omnivore’s Dilemma: Young Readers Edition
Part 1: The Industrial Meal: Food From Corn
- How Corn Took Over America
- The Farm
- From Farm to Factory
- The Grain Elevator
- The Feedlot- Turning Corn into Meat
- Processed Food
- Fat From Corn
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma
- My Fast-Food Meal
Part 2: The Industrial Organic Meal - Big Organic
- More Big Organic
Part 3: The Local Sustainable Meal: Food From Grass - Polyface Farm
- Grass
- The Animals
- The Slaughterhouse
- The Market
- My Grass-Fed Meal
Part 4: The Do-It-Yourself Meal: Hunted, Gathered, and Gardened Food- - The Forest
- Eating Animals
November-December
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Stave One: Marley’s Ghost
- Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits
- Stave Three: The Second of the Three Spirits
- Stave Four: The Last of the Three Spirits
- Stave Five: The End of It
January
The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Chapter 1: And You Wonder Why We Get Called the Weird Watsons
- Chapter 2: Give My Regards to Clark, Poindexter
- Chapter 3: The World’s Greatest Dinosaur War Ever
- Chapter 4: Froze-Up Southern Folks
- Chapter 5: Nazi Parachutes Attack America
- Chapter 6: Swedish Cremes and Welfare Cheese
- Chapter 7: Every Chihuahua in America
- Chapter 8: The Ultra-Glide!
- Chapter 9: The Watson’s Go to Birmingham- 1963
- Chapter 10: Tangled Up in God’s Beard
- Chapter 11: Babo Brazil Meets the Shiek
- Chapter 12: That Dog Won’t Hunt No More
- Chapter 13: I Meet Winnie’s Evil Twin Brother, the Wool Pooh
- Chapter 14: Every Bird and Bug in Birmingham Stops and Wonders
- Chapter 15: The World-Famous Watson Pet Hospital
February -March
A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America
- Intro: My story Our Story
- Chapter 1: Why a Different Mirror?
- Chapter 2: Removing the “Savages”
- Chapter 3: The Hidden Origins of Slavery
- Chapter 4: The Road to Reservation
- Chapter 5: Life in Slavery
- Chapter 6: The Flight from Ireland
- Chapter 7: The War Against Mexico
- Chapter 8: From China to Gold Mountain
- Chapter 9: Dealing with the Indians
- Chapter 10: The Japanese and “Money Trees”
- Chapter 11: Jews are Pushed from Russia
- Chapter 12: Up from Mexico
- Chapter 13: Blacks Arrive in North Cities
- Chapter 14: World War 2 and America’s Ethnic Problem
- Chapter 15: Calls For Change
- Chapter 16: New Wave of Newcomers
- Chapter 17: We Will All Be Minorities
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe- C.S. Lewis
April
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World Without Fish– Mark Kurlansky
May-June
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Chapter Eleven: