Friday, January 12, 2007

Just Buffalo's The Big Read

Last year, Just Buffalo ran The Big Read program with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. They provided classroom copies of books to teachers who would teach it in class. It's the whole "What If Everyone Read the Same Book" idea. This year's book is Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

The application appears below. If it isn't big enough, here's a link to the Just Buffalo website, which I've also added to the sidebar for easy access. You'll have to click around to find info about The Big Read.

2 comments:

Mrs. Bouquard said...

Hey what a great title though I don't think my freshman could handle that book. Any thoughts on that? You know how I love free books!

Joel said...

My thoughts are try and get the book and worry about it later. This might end up on the final list of books that the city develops. Not sure what level.

Anyway...haven't read the novel, but I think I heard that most is written in dialect. At the very least, if you were so moved, you could focus on an excerpt or two...if it fit into your grand scheme of things.