This Week @ NCCHS
September 8, 2008
One Book-One School-One Community
The North Chicago Community High School Library Department is proud to announce its book choice for fall of 2008. This fall we are asking the entire North Chicago community to join us in reading Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. This thought provoking novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
Our goal as a Library Department is to promote lifelong readers and the best way that we can accomplish this task is for the whole community to join in and read one book this fall. We would like all members of the North Chicago community, all employees of District 187, and all students from grades 9-12 to join in reading this novel. We highly encourage everyone who will be connected to North Chicago Community High School to read The Road this fall.
Below you will find a brief description of the novel and review.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage Books (March 28, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307387895
ISBN-13: 978-0307387899
About The Road - Synopsis
A searing postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food----and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. The New York Times Book Review – William Kennedy
Art Department: In Need of Paint
The art department has been given permission to paint the school up and down. So all we need is paint! If anyone has any old paint they do not plan on using we are accepting donations.
Student Parking
Parking permits are required of all student drivers parking on school property. The student must submit a valid driver’s license, proof of current registration and auto insurance. Parking permits must be displayed on all student vehicles by September 30, 2008. Failure to comply will result in your vehicle being towed!