Month: June 2019
Summer Reading 12th
Galileo Suggested Summer Reading for 12thGraders †American Gods, Neil Gaiman/465 p./Fantasy/2001 Shadow sets out on a journey across America fighting old myths and the gods of modern technology and material obsession when he takes employment with a man named Wednesday — otherwise known as the god Odin. Becoming,Michelle Obama/426 p./Memoir/2018 In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment,
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Galileo Suggested Summer Reading for 11thGraders Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card, Sara Saedi/280 p./Memoir/2018 At thirteen, Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn’t learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply
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Galileo Suggested Summer Reading for 10thGraders The Agony House, Cherie Priest/256 p./Spooky Illustrated Fiction/2018 Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad, wagering the last of their family’s money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast. But when floors collapse, deadly objects rain down, and
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Galileo Suggested Summer Reading for 9th Graders Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, v. 1 Ta-Nehisi Coates/Comic Book/2016 T’Challa confronts a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud
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Weekly Bulletin – June 3 – 4, 2019
GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin JUNE 3 – 4, 2019 WORD OF THE WEEK: D-DAY: 75th ANNIVERSARY JUNE 6, 2019 NORMANDY, LAND OF LIBERTY On 6 June 1944 and during the long summer that followed, men from all over the world came to fight in Normandy to defeat Nazism and re-establish freedom. Normandy will bear the scars of this moment
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