The Lovely Bones

Use this post to share your reactions to the novel. 

Alice Sebold's story is narrated by a 14 year old victim of a violent crime who tells the story of her death from heaven. How can you apply the fiction writing we've been doing with the Columbia Artists/Teachers to analyze Sebold's story-telling techniques?

The Color of Water

Use this post to share your reactions to James McBride's memoir. I hope you enjoy the last book of the semester!

New Moon

We read it.

We loved it.

We saw it.

Now Blog it :)

Columbia University MFA Students

Both Scholars' Academy classes have two Columbia University graduate students working with us on our poetry and prose. The 10th graders have Carmen and Kate and the 11th graders are working with Natalie and Adam. Don't forget to submit the work we do to In Print! Let's use this post to communicate with each other, share the pieces we are working on, and encourage each other to keep writing...

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Use this post to share your reactions to the novel. Remember to focus on analysis, not plot summary. 

The Color Purple

Use this post to express your reactions to the novel. You may want to dive deeper into class discussion here and/or introduce a new topic that we haven't mentioned yet.  

Hester

Kiswana, Ysabel, and Alyssa

Which themes are explored through Hester's character? What was it like to play the heroine of the story? How did you get into character?