https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext Feel free to add (must be approved) additional secondary mentor text. Include the type of mentor text in the title and the name of book, song, poem, etc. and author (if known) with the text or image in the body. Use Control/Command + F to search for specific types of mentor text. en-us 2017-01-24 19:19:44 UTC 2023-01-20 07:09:47 UTC hello@padlet.com edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/149144960 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins]]> 2017-01-24 19:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/149144960 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/150709963 Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox ]]> 2017-01-31 22:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/150709963 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/150861636 2017-02-01 15:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/150861636 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/194494754 Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Pena]]> 2017-10-05 20:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/194494754 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/194508835 2017-10-05 21:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/194508835 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/197889951 Firegirl by Tony Abbott]]> 2017-10-17 16:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/197889951 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/198854620 Where I'm From, a poem by George Ella Lyon]]> 2017-10-19 19:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/198854620 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/203546908 “I Go Back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds.]]> 2017-11-04 16:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/203546908 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/203547298 2017-11-04 16:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/203547298 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204015978 Ireland on Fast Forward by Richard Conniff
The light finds its way mysteriously around the clouds. It comes in from the sides. It lifts up off a white horse or a beach and scatters through the moist air with a numinous glow. It rises from earth toward the heavens. Then it's gone.]]> 2017-11-06 17:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204015978 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204016832 Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
"I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that's the truth, the whole truth."]]> 2017-11-06 17:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204016832 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204017617 The Pearl by John Steinbeck

"A town is a thing like a colonial animal."]]> 2017-11-06 17:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204017617 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204018214 Unknown by Melody Beattie
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."]]> 2017-11-06 17:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204018214 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204018620 The things they carried by Tim O'Brien

"They all carried fragmentation grenades-14 ounces each. They all carried at least one M-18 colored smoke grenade- 24 ounces. Some carried CS or tear gas grenades. They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried."]]> 2017-11-06 17:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204018620 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204019334 The Essence of Imagination]]> 2017-11-06 17:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204019334 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204020407 The Great Mouse Plot by Roald Dahl

]]> 2017-11-06 17:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204020407 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204023042 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all other lives I'm not living."]]> 2017-11-06 17:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204023042 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204023607 The Red Pony by John Steinbeck 

"And Gitano was an old man, until you got to the dull dark eyes. And in behind them was some unknown thing. He didn't ever say enough to let you guess what was under the eyes." ]]> 2017-11-06 17:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204023607 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024023 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

"I was born with too much grease inside my skull, and it got all thick and muddy and disgusting, and it only mucked up the works.]]> 2017-11-06 17:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024023 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024282 Quote by Samuel Butler

"oaths are but words, and words but wind"]]> 2017-11-06 17:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024282 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024532 Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn

"Under my bare feet, I saw Hitler's face on the cement- his beady eyes, his mustache, his mean little slit of a mouth."]]> 2017-11-06 17:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024532 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024949 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

"“Cannery Row in Monterrey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses."]]> 2017-11-06 17:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204024949 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204025221 Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

"Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else."]]> 2017-11-06 17:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204025221 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204025531 Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

"It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and the din to mask that something dark had taken root."]]> 2017-11-06 17:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204025531 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204025835 Priscilla and the Wimps by Richard Peck

"This school was old Monk's Garden of Eden. Unfortunately for him, there was a serpent in it."]]> 2017-11-06 17:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204025835 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204026141 Oranges by Gary Soto

And asked what she wanted -
Light in her eyes, a smile
Starting at the corners
Of her mouth. I fingered
A nickel in my pocket,
And when she lifted a chocolate
That cost a dime,
I didn't say anything.
I took the nickel from
My pocket, then an orange,
And set them quietly on
The counter. When I looked up,
The lady's eyes met mine,
And held them, knowing
Very well what it was all
About.]]> 2017-11-06 17:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204026141 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204026506 The Once and Future King by T.H. White

"Ah, yes. How did I know to set breakfast for two? That was why I showed you the looking-glass. Now ordinary people are born forwards in Time, if you understand what I mean, and nearly everything in the world goes forward too. This makes it quite easy for the ordinary people to live, just as it would be easy to join those five dots into a W if you were allowed to look at them forwards, instead of backwards and inside out. But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of time, and I have to live backwards from in front, while surrounded by a lot of people living forwards from behind. Some people call it having second sight."

 He stopped talking and looked at the Wart in an anxious way.

 "Have I told you this before?"

 "No, we only met about half an hour ago."
 "So little time to pass?" said Merlyn, and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose. He wiped it off with his pyjamas and added anxiously, "Am I going to tell it you again?"]]> 2017-11-06 18:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204026506 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204027215 The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

He showed it to her. The smell of hot grass was on it… and the
smell of a lion. It was wet from being in the lion’s mouth, there were tooth marks on it, and there was dried blood on both sides. He closed the door and locked it, tight.]]> 2017-11-06 18:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204027215 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204027511 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

"Most of the buildings in this part of the city had been built without foundations, many on swampy land where the canals were haphazardly dug. They leaned against each other like tipsy friends gathered at a bar, tilting at drowsy angles."]]> 2017-11-06 18:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204027511 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204027912 Song: The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur]]> 2017-11-06 18:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204027912 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204028332 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

WHEN I LEFT MY OFFICE THAT BEAUTIFUL SPRING
DAY, I HAD no idea what was in store for me.
To begin with, everything was too perfect
for anything unusual to happen. It was one
of those days when a man feels good, feels
like speaking to his neighbor, is glad to
live in a country like ours, and proud of
his government. You know what I mean,
one of those rare days when everything is
right and nothing is wrong.]]> 2017-11-06 18:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204028332 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204028652 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

That very night in Max's room a forest grew, and grew — and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around]]> 2017-11-06 18:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204028652 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204029613 Owl Moon by Jane Yolen]]> 2017-11-06 18:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204029613 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204033184 From the novel: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

"A boy was staring at me. I was quite sure I'd never seen him before. Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in. Mahogany hair, straight and short. He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture aggressively poor; one hand half in a pocket of dark jeans. I looked away, suddenly self conscious of my myriad inefficiencies. I was wearing old jeans, which had once been tight but now sagged in weird places, and a yellow T-shirt advertising a band I didn't even like anymore. Also my hair: I had this pageboy haircut, and I hadn't even bothered to, like, brush it. Furthermore, I had ridiculously fat chipmunked cheeks, a side effect of treatment. I looked like normally proportioned person with a balloon for a head. This was not even to mention the cankle situation. And yet - I cut a glance to him, and his eyes were still on me."]]> 2017-11-06 18:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204033184 kelly_fitz https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204036170 News of the World by Paulette Jiles

"Everything was the color of biscuit, the color of yellow sunlight and the sulphur shades of gunpowder smoke."]]> 2017-11-06 18:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/204036170 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251277402 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
http://bit.ly/2Hiz2kU ]]> 2018-04-12 17:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251277402 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251282813 Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson

"From 1861 to 1865, the United States endured a bloody civil war between Northern and Southern states. The conflict had begun long before over the right to own slaves and states' right to secede, that is, to leave the union if they disagreed with the government"

]]> 2018-04-12 17:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251282813 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251289164 The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy]]> 2018-04-12 17:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251289164 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251340173 Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Ashford. 
This is a video of the book being read/illustrated.]]> 2018-04-12 19:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251340173 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251702629  Written by Matt Hetherington ]]> 2018-04-13 19:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251702629 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251705464 2018-04-13 19:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251705464 edtechnut https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251706662 Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds]]> 2018-04-13 19:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/edtechnut/mentortext/wish/251706662