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Mrs. Dorman's Professional Reading List

The following books are excellent references for 21st century skills and the new information literacy.

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Raw Materials for the Mind - Warlick

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Classroom Blogging - Warlick

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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts - Richardson

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The Weblog Handbook - Blood

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Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds - Finkelstein

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A Whole New Mind - Pink

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Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design - Tomlinson & McTighe

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Differentiation in Practice - Tomlinson & McTighe

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Classroom Instruction that Works - Marzano, Pickering, Polllock

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Assessing Student Outcomes - Marzano, Pickering, McTighe

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The World is Flat [Updated & Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Friedman

Mrs. Dorman's Personal Reading List

These are the books that Mrs. Dorman will be reading this school year.

bulletThe Diamond Age - Stephenson
bulletOur Lady of the Forest - Guterson
bulletThe Known World - Jones
bulletThe Photograph - Lively
bulletThe Quality of Life Report - Daum
bulletThe Bug - Ullman
bulletMortals - Rush
bulletAmericana: Dispatches From the New Frontier - Sides
bulletThe Dogs of Babel - Parkhurst
bulletThe Rice Mother - Manicka
bulletBrick Lane - Ali
bulletThe Kitchen Boy - Alexander
bulletThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Haddon
bulletRunning With Scissors - Burroughs
bulletThe Life You Save May Be Your Own - Elie
bulletThe Time Traveler's Wife - Niffenegger
bulletVillage Incognito - Robbins
bulletThe Big House - Colt
bulletThe Dive From Clausen's Pier - Packer
bulletA Son Called Gabriel - McNicholl
bulletThe Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

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Mrs. Dorman's All-Time Favorite Books

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee

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Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

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John Adams - McCullough

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Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden

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To America - Personal Reflections of an Historian - Ambrose

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bryson

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A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bryson

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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present - Zinn

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Giving Tree - Silverstein

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