• 1 social studies
    • random country generator, do all the things about that country!
    • map quiz on memrise
    • ANY Eyewitness book
    • American society and social issues
      • Tori Douglass White Homework (just google it)
      • reading lists i have saved on black struggles
      • political science/history
        • Hillbilly Elegy
        • Wife with a Purpose by Ayla Stewart for SNARK
    • home ec (and women's housework history)
  • 2 history
    • general read: 1066 And Before All That
    • biographies on anyone
    • these are the following random books i have out, or did have out when i made this:
      • Modern Japan
      • Holy Sh*t
      • The Professor and the Madman, book i own
    • all the documentaries
    • histories of specific countries
      • definitely japan
      • all of europe, pick a country
      • korea
      • australia
      • hawaii
      • Canada
      • Mexico
    • dark ages into medieval times
    • crusades
    • renaissance, know which country had which renaissance
    • enlightenment
    • court of louis xiv
    • readings from the american revolution
      • what happened in 1776-1799 in baby america
    • readings from the french revolution
    • war of 1812 and what that was all about
    • french and indian war
    • war with mexico
    • gilded age
    • roaring 20s
    • mccarthy trials and communism readings
    • president book club
    • salem witch trials (maybe read/see the Crucible)
    • crusades
    • civil wars
      • american
      • english
      • spanish
  • 3 religious studies
    • learn about different religions
      • Judaism
      • Islam
      • Sikhism
      • Shinto
      • Buddhism
      • Hinduism
    • read philosophical books
    • read about history
    • read bible
    • compare different denominations
      • Episcopalians
      • Lutherans
      • Quakers
      • Catholics
      • that evangelical culture book from Sunrise
      • that jesuit book from sunrise
    • J.Knapp's self study
      • Karen Armstrong
      • Diarmaid McCullouch
      • pre-revolutionary america writings/sermons
  • 4 science
    • genreal book: Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
    • earth science
    • chemistry
    • space
    • science of food
    • history of salt (the book)
    • browse khan academy
    • anatomy
    • do i still have a weather book?
    • do i still have a linguistics book?
    • do i still have a psychology book?
    • the following list of books looked good, also counts as history:
      • The Sleepwalkers
      • The Little Ice Age
      • Chasing the Sun (about the sun, duh)
      • Brief History of Time (Hawking)
      • The Secret Language of Color
      • Bee in a Cathedral
      • Dust (i forget if that's what it was called but that's what it was about)
      • Water - by Steven Solomon
      • Napoleon's Buttons
      • ANY Eyewitness book
    • cooking shows, applied science
  • 5 math
    • get an easy algebra book
    • easy geometry
  • 6 art history
    • impressionism
    • post-impressionism
    • romantic
    • fashion history, pick your era
    • yes cross stitching still counts
    • bios
      • JMW Turner
      • holy moly there's a book of Van Gough's letters
    • graphic novels should count, too
      • A Contract With God, Will Eisner
  • 7 music
    • composer book club
    • deep dives into specific styles/eras
    • hear all the ballets (just hear, don't watch)
    • watch all the ballets
    • recordings of broadway from the library
  • 8 media studies
    • actor movie party
    • director party
    • composer party
    • just classic movies i haven't seen
    • yes, Blog should still count
    • checking up on Twitter
    • podcasting counts
    • graphic novel intensive
  • 9 languages:
    • 1 japanese
    • 2 german
    • 3 french
    • 4 norwegian
    • 5 spanish
    • 6 italian
    • 7 korean
    • 8 dutch
    • 9 russian
    • 10 english advanced vocab
  • 10 extra Language Arts below

on to the best stuff:

  • LANGUAGE ARTS
  • 1 reading
    • from 1800s
    • from great depression
      • Steinbeck
    • Orwell
    • virginia woolf
    • Stephen King
    • Ray Bradbury
    • jeeves and wooster
    • Elie Wiesel
    • Jack London
    • all the classics ever
    • all the children's classics
      • finally work on Harry Potter
      • all the Little House
      • Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) because is a classic now
  • 2 authors in general
    • all the Mo Willems
    • all the Margaret Wise Brown (and that biography on her)
    • James Baldwin
    • Maya Angelou
    • Charles Dickens (if i like one of his books)
    • Jane Yolen
  • 3 creative writing
    • flash fiction
    • On Writing, King
    • editing! H&J
    • creative nonfiction
    • poetry
      • study favorite authors:
        • robert frost
        • ralph waldo emerson
        • emily dickinson
        • tennyson
        • keats
        • mary oliver
        • jane yolen
        • dylan thomas
        • wwi poets
    • short story study
    • free write all the things
    • one short story a day in my journal
  • 4 advanced vocabulary
  • 5 mythologies
    • mythology pick a culture
    • fairy tales
  • 6 research reading for future novels

and if i run out of subjects, go to my Big List of Themes and make stuff up.

may 24 2020 ∞
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