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ELA Book Bundles

Let your interests guide your reading. Delve deeper into topics. Research questions that spring from your readings.

This year, the ELA class has the opportunity to explore topics of interest through book bundles. You will compare how different authors explore similarthemes and topics, and then develop a question (which you will research) to extend your understanding of the topic. You will share your findings with the class.

Timeline

First Marking Period

  • Choose topic and book bundle you would like to focus on.
  • If you do not like the provided bundle options, you may propose your own, but it will need teacher approval before you proceed.
  • Books may also be swapped with teacher approval.
  • Begin reading and tracking your topic through double entry journals.

Second Marking Period

  • Continue reading and tracking your topic through double entry journals.
  • Begin outlining a comparative analysis of how the topic is handled across bundle.
  • Begin formulating a research question based on the topic.

Third Marking Period

  • Finish comparative literary analysis paper.
  • Finalize question and begin research.
  • Conduct interviews and/or look for interviews conducted by others

Fourth Marking Period

  • Complete research.
  • Create and present a multi-media presentation of your findings for the class.

Book Bundle Options

Prosthetics/Assistive Technology
Running Dream
Shark Girl
Out of My Mind / Climbing
Peak
A Walk in the Woods
No Summit Out of Sight
Into Thin Air / Environmental Conservation
A Walk in the Woods / The Holocaust/Concentration Camps
Night
Beyond Courage
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Book Thief
The Diary of Anne Frank
Dystopian/Utopian Societies: Visions of the Future
1984
Ender’s Game
The 5th Wave
The Darkest Path
Gone
Fahrenheit 451* / Restrictive Governments
1984*
Animal Farm*
Hunger Games
Delirium
Legend
The Testing
Steeplejack / Grief
Searching for Alaska
Don’t Look Away
The Fault in Our Stars
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl / Bullying
Flowers for Algernon
13 Reasons Why
Eleanor & Park
Dear Bully
What Happened to LaniGarver
LGBT
Luna
Gracefully Grayson
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
What Happened to Lani Garber?
I’ll Give You the Sun
What Happened to LaniGarver / The Media
1981
The Losers
Can’t Look Away / PTSD
The Impossible Knife of Memory
The Red Badge of Courage
Soldier’s Heart
Unbroken / Science and Ethics
Bomb
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks*
Vitro
Frankenstein*
Jurassic Park
Origin
Mental Health Issues
Wintergirls
Unbroken
The Memory of Light
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
What Happened to LaniGarver / Social Class and Identity
The Outsiders
The Great Gatsby*
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank
An Ember in the Ashes
Red Rising
Steeplejack / Minority Identities
Eleanor & Park
Warriors Don’t Cry
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian*
Code Talkers / Overcoming Adversity
Unbroken
I am Malala*
Alicia: My Story
Red Scarf Girl
Speak
Finding Yourself
Fahrenheit 451*
If I Stay
Looking for Alaska or Paper Towns
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian*
The House of the Scorpion / World War II
The Boys in the Boat
Unbroken
Courage and Defiance / Survival
The Fallout
Graceling
The Making of a Navy Seal
The Raft
Life As We Knew It
The Martian
Rule of Three / Olympic/Superhuman Accomplishment
Unbroken
Born to Run
Boys in the Boat
The Struggles of Warfare
Unbroken
Black Hawk Down
Ender’s Game
Bomb / Perspectives on War
The Killer Angels
Black Hawk Down
Unbroken / Uncovering Truth
The Catcher in the Rye*
Looking for Alaska
The Pigman
What Happened to LaniGarver / Overcoming Domestic Neglect/Abuse
A Child Called “It”
They Caged Us Like Animals in the Night
Me & Emma
Eleanor & Park
Room

More Book Bundle Options

False Facades
The Devil in the White City
The Losers
The Great Gatsby* / Autism
Mockingbird
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time / Poverty
Angela’s Ashes
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Old Man and the Sea*
Ellen Foster / In the Trenches
Unbroken
Under a War-Torn Sky
Soldier X
Author’s Craft: Sports
Gym Candy
If You’re Reading This
Slam
Life in Motion / Author’s Craft: Mystery
The Hound of Baskervilles
And Then There Were None or Murder on the Orient Express
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Body of Christopher Creed
The Westing Game / Author’s Craft: Dystopian
The Testing
Maze Runner
The Darkest Path
Legend
Hunger Games
Stung
Delirium
The Darkest Mind
Fahrenheit 451
1981
An Ember in the Ashes / Author’s Craft: Memoir
Life in Motion
The Making of a Navy Seal
Alicia: My Story
Angela’s Ashes
Time Travel
Revolution / Family Relations
North of Beautiful
I’ll Give You the Sun
Everything I Never Told You / Supernatural Phenomenon
Miss Peregrin’s Home for Peculiar Children
Pet Semetary / Literacy/Education
The Book Thief
I am Malala
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Diary of Anne Frank

PleaseNote:
Some but not all books are available in the classroom library. Make sure you have a plan for attaining all of the books in your bundle.

Books that have an asterisk (*) are used at the high school level as part of the core curriculum.