The purpose of this project is to open our doors to the community in which we teach by sharing our favorite passages from a book whose words caught in our imaginations and lingered there for days, weeks, and years.

Those words might have come from a poem, a speech, a novel, or a scientific tract. For some reason, they matter to you. You read them and then you say why.

We want the families of our students to know why reading matters to us; we want to inspire them to read too.

Dr. Christina Porter, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Kelly Andreoni, Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Joseph Ciccarello, Drive by Daniel Pink

Mary Ellen Dakin, The Tempest by William Shakespeare

David Eatough, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

George Hannah, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Lisa Mirasolo, Warriner's English Grammar and Composition

Jessica Theriault, Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul