1. Class #5, December 9  Housekeeping  Lolly on fantasy and science fiction  Christina’s book talk  Katherine Paterson presentation  More fantasy and science fiction?  Book discussion Break at 6:45  Panel

2. Next week  Poetry  Verse novels  Talk about bibliographies during groups  Taking requests Awards Writing or working in publishing More?

3. Fantasy and Science Fiction  Background info  Politics of their time  Allegory  Variety

4. “The Mary Sue Project” “The Mary Sue Project” by Lelac Almagor (November/December 2006 Horn Book Magazine) Fifth-graders write themselves into the story

5. Christina’s booktalk American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (First Second, 2006)

6. Katherine Paterson presentation Meghan Greenberg Brette Wolff

7. More books?

8. Ingrid Law  Born in Northern NY  Moved to CO age 6  Savvy is her first book  Still lives in CO  13-year-old daughter  Savvy movie (2011) Video of BGHB acceptance: http://www.hbook.com/video/BGHB08/fiction08.mov

9. Group 1Group 2 Group 3 Vaneeta Ahuja (a) Joanna Batt Lizzie Brook Kathryn Hurley Wendy Israel (a) Hilary Lustick Aradhana Mudambi Christy Ostrowski Holly Takashima Khalilah Ummah Reed Weeden Brette Wolff with Jen Charlene Deming Michal-Ann Golay Caroline Goldstein Alicia Henriquez Eveleen Hsu Bridget Maher Alana McDonough (a) Erin Simmons Ali Stein (a) Lesley Sylvan Rose Wongsarnpigoon with Christina Megan Chamberlain Carolyn Coates Janelle Colosi Mehgan Greenberg Annie Hoffman Susan Kenien Kelton Myers Julie Rosenberg (a) Hui Xin Tan Frances Tompkins with Lolly

10. Break

11. Author panel