What are we reading at Webb?

[Laura]

Moral Courage by Rushworth Kidder
This summer Head of Schools Susan Nelson invited faculty and staff to read Rushworth Kidder's Moral Courage, a book that relates to one of Webb's founding principles and the first goal of our strategic plan -- HONOR. To start off the 2008-2009 school year, the entire faculty and staff gathered together for a day of discussion that focused on our principles and core values, on ethical decision-making and moral reasoning, on solving ethical dilemmas, and on achieving a common understanding of what it means to be an honorable person - a person of moral courage. Throughout this school year we will continue these dicussions with students, faculty and staff through a series of activities, speakers and workshops, including a day-long Honors Symposium.

[Laura]

The Global Achivement Gap by Tony Wagner
Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship--and What We Can Do About It
The 2009 summer reading assignment for teachers, students and parents is a book that looks at the way we teach today. With the growth of economies in countries like India and China, competition for good jobs is now on a global level. What are the seven survival skills our children will need to succeed? What can we do now to prepare them?

[Laura]

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
The 2012 summer reading assignment for Webb faculty is Tony Wagner's book, CREATING INNOVATORS.

[Laura]

The White Tiger
Assigned summer reading for sophomores this year is THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.

[Laura]

On the Road
Assigned summer reading for juniors this year is ON THE ROAD by American writer Jack Kerouac. It is a largely autobiographical work based on the spontaneous cross-country adventures of Kerouac and his friends during the middle of the 20th century. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences.

[Laura]

The Bell Jar
Assigned summer reading for seniors this year is THE BELL JAR by American writer Sylvia Plath.

[Laura]

Story about an Amherst College student who takes a year off to see a world that fascinates him.

This book was on the list of suggested freshmen summer reading.

[Laura]

The author, Ted Conover, makes an illegal crossing of the Mexico/U.S. border.

This book was on the list of suggested freshmen summer reading.

[Miya]

Arcadia, written by Tom Stoppard
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