[Griff]

Lil' Griff's school follows the NYS curriculum. This year the board of Regents has decided that all kids going into 7th grade should have a book assigned and a thick stack of worksheets to fill out. The assigned book and sheets appear to target poor readers (she had to pretend she didn't know a vocabulary word from the bookto do the section she worked on yesterday). So she's doing the work while reading the stuff she wants but it seems to me most kids will be turned off to reading by this approach. The booklist last summer was received much better.


So far this summer, I've read 2/3 of the Baroque Cycle - Neil Stephenson. I've got Daniel Siegel (brain science), Greg Bear (sci fi), and Bernard Cornwell (historo-fiction) in the que. I'll be reading more stuff on stone masonry and epee fencing as well.