Reading Against the Odds is about reading
and learning about our community and
ourselves.
A selection of some of the things we have
done:
Books Read:
- The Bluest Eye
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- The Women of Brewster Place
- All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
- Dreams From My Father
- Go Tell it On the Mountain
- Cry, The Beloved Country
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- A Mercy
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Hamlet
- The Adventures of Augie March
- Invisible Man
- The Joy Luck Club
- Urban Quartet
- The Book Thief
Places Visited:
- Art Institute of Chicago
- DuSable Museum
- Chicago History Museum
- Steppenwolf Theatre
- Court Theatre
- Spertus Institute
- Nature Museum
- Museum of Contemporary Art
- Chinese American Museum
- Roosevelt University Science Laboratories
- "The Big Read" at Columbia College Library
Things Created:
- Collages
- Poetry
- Decorated journals to write in
- Conference presentations
- Reflective writings
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