Ms. K RADIO: Recent Episodes
Julie K
Updates from the world of middle school grade Language Arts, keeping us connected and documenting two very strange school years.
It’s time for Season 2! We begin with the essay “Super Mario Kart” from John Green’s book, “The Anthropocene Reviewed”
Here's a link to Front Desk in the libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/4000868
Here's Kelly Yang's website: https://frontdeskthebook.com/books/front-desk/
Read more about Kelly Yang and her books here: https://frontdeskthebook.com/the-real-story/
Read more about Lucille Clifton and her work here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton
"Praise Song for the Day" is a poem written by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Learn more about Elizabeth Alexander and find more of her poems here.
We continue our celebration of Black History month with a poem from Elizabeth Alexander. Learn more about her life and work here.
Here's a link to "Blues."
This is our third episode with the poet Nikki Giovanni. Today's poem is called "Nikki-Rosa."
Find out more about Nikki's work here.
This is our second episode with the poet Nikki Giovanni. Today's poem is called "BLK History Month," which we've been talking about.
Find out more about Nikki's work here.
Welcome to second semester!
It is also February and Black History Month--a time to celebrate Black culture and the people who create it.
This is the first of three episodes featuring poems of Nikki Giovanni. Today's poem is "Mothers."
You can learn more about Nikki Giovanni here.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikki-giovanni
I hope you enjoy this article about trees from the New York Times, "German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too" by Sally McGrane, from January 2016.
Here's a link to the original article.
Here's the Hidden Life of Trees audiobook link on libby. Here's the e-book version.
In case the hyperlinks don't work:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html?fbclid=IwAR1VM4AZ24bfwlmSioeRvgURxBYMoYHCzCc6Xkau16J_oMSzqeAjDMD0swo
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2890481
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2620831
The book is not in the library yet (alas! write the library and request it!) but you can learn more about Tatyana and where to get the book on her website: https://www.tatyanamcfadden.com/book
Request a paper copy of this book from your local library: https://rclreads.bibliocommons.com/item/show/721909166
Read a short history of Rondo on the mnopedia site: https://www.mnopedia.org/place/rondo-neighborhood-st-paul
Request a paper copy of this book from your local library: https://rclreads.bibliocommons.com/item/show/721909166
Read a short history of Rondo on the mnopedia site: https://www.mnopedia.org/place/rondo-neighborhood-st-paul
I couldn't find this book on Libby, sadly, but I did find this video of someone flipping through the book, which gives you a better idea what it's like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJrD__T_UU
You can also find a paper copy in the physical library: https://rclreads.bibliocommons.com/item/show/750813166
If you make a zine, I'd love to see it!!
I didn't find this book on Libby, but you can at least see what it looks like and hear from the authors here:
https://www.powells.com/book/how-to-raise-a-plant-and-make-it-love-you-back-9781786273024
Find the young adult version of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson in the Libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3900668
Find the young adult version of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson in the Libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3900668
Find the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers Edition, on Libby; https://share.libbyapp.com/title/4713957
We return to Francisco Jiménez's story collection, The CIrcuit, this week, to hear the second half of the story, "Inside Out." The first half was in episode 9. Find the audiobook of the story collection on the libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2345177 Find the e-book version on the libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/574238
We return to Francisco Jiménez's story collection, The CIrcuit, this week. In this story he is starting at a new school.
You will hear the first half of the story, "Inside Out." The second half will be in the next episode.
Find the audiobook of the story collection on the libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2345177
Find the e-book version on the libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/574238
What do you know about the people who grow our food?
Here is a link to the story by Francisco Jimenéz: https://www.swl.k12.oh.us/Downloads/the%20circuit.pdf
Today I read you the story Names/Nombres By Julia Alvarez.
You can here audio of her talking about her name here: https://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?pid=173
Check out her book Before We Were Free from the Libby App to read her story about the Dominican Republic in the 1960s and why people were leaving the country: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/154066
“My Secret Pepsi Plot” by Boris Fishman. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/my-secret-pepsi-plot.html
An excerpt from bell hooks’ “belonging: a culture of place” https://bookshop.org/books/belonging-a-culture-of-place/9780415968164
I went down a BTS rabbit hole this weekend and it got me thinking... link to the essay by Yung In Chae https://eidolon.pub/like-dionysus-1d1b8fb428e1 link to BTS on the Colbert Show, mimicking a famous Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964, which is when the Beatles were official introduced to the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WED4_LAAWk
Poems from the series Revolutionary Letters by the poet Diane di Prima, who died this week. Read more about her here.
"Fish Cheeks" is a 1987 one-page narrative essay by Chinese-American author Amy Tan and her first published essay. The work was first published in Seventeen and covers a Christmas Eve dinner when Tan was 14 years old. It was subsequently published as a part of The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.