English Quarter Reading Guideline

You will be expected to pick one book this quarter to read and create a response notebook. We will work on some of the requirements together in class. However, a majority of your work will be done on your own time. Each section of the project will have a due date, and the final project will be due before the end of the quarter. Everything will be turned in together at that time. You will be choosing a book from an approved book list. 1st quarter is a book of your choice with at least 200 pages or more. It CANNOT be a book we read in class or will be reading. When in doubt—ask. DO NOT procrastinate or you will be very unhappy.

Your book project will cover three different sections. The guidelines are as follows:

Section 1: Synthesis (100 total pts)

You will be answering one of the questions below. (75 pts)

Evaluate the author’s purpose in writing this story. How has his/her life influenced the message in the story?
Examine the time period the book was written. What cultural and societal influence are present and how?
Compare and contrast the conflict and/or characters in the book to world issues today.

· You will need to use a quote from the primary source (your book) and you will need to research and find a secondary source (quote/citation) to support your argument.

· This section needs to be between 1-2 pages 12 pt. Times New Roman font, MLA format.

· This must look like an essay with an intro, thesis statement, body and conclusion.

· It also needs a Works Cited page in appropriate MLA format. Print out source (with URL address and date at top) when found and highlight the quotation used and attach to your final draft behind your works cited page. (25 pts)

Section 2: Literary Analysis (200 pts)

Vocabulary you found interesting
You need to use an inference chart (20 words, the sentence it was found in, page number, your inference about what the word means, and the actual definition) (100 pts)
Compare and Contrast the protagonist and antagonist. How did their identity change throughout the book? Or, did they change at all? Use one quote from the book to show change or lack of change in each character. Each character should be at least ½ page long (2 quotes total). (70 pts)
Use Bloom’s Taxonomy question words to come up with a discussion question and write a ½ page typed response to answer or examine the question at hand. You will have one question and response after the exposition, the climax, and the resolution (3 questions and responses total). (30 pts)

Section 3: Creative Personal Response (100 pts)

1. This is where you can show your creativity while also showing how you felt about the book.

You can choose whatever medium you want for this (poem, story, play, drawing, collage, poster,

ppt). Just be creative. (50 pts)

2. The project must have one quote from the book that exemplifies your feelings. (10 pts)

3. You must also include a written explanation of your project that explains how you felt about the book and why, what your project is about, and how it depicts your feelings. (40 pts)

Reading List Pre-AP 9-10

Acts of King Arthur – Steinbeck

The Aguero Sisters – Garcia

Alice in Wonderland – Carroll

All Quiet on the W. Front-Remarque

An American Childhood – Dillard

Animal Farm – Orwell

Bless Me, Ultima – Anaya

Blue Horses Rush In – Tapahonso

The Bluest Eye – Morrison

Bluejay’s Dance – Erdrich

The Brave Cowboy – Abbey

Brave New World – Huxley

The Chosen – Potok

Cold Sassy Tree – Burns

A Connecticut Yankee… – Twain

The Conquest of Don Pedro – Ferguson

Death Be Not Proud – Gunther

Diary of a Young Girl – Frank

Dune – Herbert

Elephant Man – Sparks

Ethan Frome – Wharton

Farenheit 451 – Bradbury

The Fountainhead – Rand

A Gathering of Old Men – Gaines

The Ghost of John Wayne – Gonzalez

The Good Earth – Buck

Go Tell It on the Mt. – Baldwin

Grass Dancer – Power

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers

Herland – Perkins-Gilmore

Hero with 1000 Faces – Campbell

Hiroshima – Hersey

The Hobbit – Tolkien

How the Garcia Girls Lost…- Alvarez

How to Make an American Quilt – Otto

Hunger of Memory-Rodriguez

I Know Why Caged Bird Sings –Angelou

In Time of Harvest –Sinclair

Jasmine – Mukherjee

Johnny Got His Gun – Trumbo

Last of the Mohicans – Cooper

Little Women – Alcott

The Lives of a Cell- Lewis

Lord of the Flies – Golding

Mama Day – Naylor

A Member of the Wedding -McCullers

Men on the Moon – Ortiz

Metamorphoses – Ovid

Mr. Ives Christmas – Hijuelos

Nilda – Mohr

Nobody’s Son – Urrea

Okla Hannali – Rafferty

The Old Man & the Sea – Hemingway

Oliver Twist – Dickens

The Once & Future King – White

O, Pioneers – Cather

Outcasts of Poker Flat – Harte

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde

Portrait of an Artist w/26 Horses – Eastlake

Power – Hogan

The Princess Bride – Goldman

Raney – Edgerton

The Red Badge of Courage – Crane

Roll of Thunder – Taylor

A Separate Peace –Knowles

Shoeless Joe – Kinsella

Siddhartha – Hesse

The Surrounded – McNickle

Tales of Terror – Poe

To Build a Fire – London

To Kill a Mockingbird –Lee

Tracks – Erdrich

Traveler – Adams

Tuesdays with Morrie – Albom

Walking Stars – Villasenor

Way to Rainy Mountain – Momaday

Winter in the Blood – Welch

Women of Brewster Place – Naylor

Yellow Raft in Blue Water – Dorris

Reading List Grade 11AP

Absalom, Absalom – Faulkner

Age of Innocence – Wharton

All the King’s Men-Warren

All the Pretty Horses-McCarthy

Almanac of the Dead – Silko

American Childhood – Dillard

Angle of Repose – Stegner

As I Lay Dying – Faulkner

Autobio of Malcolm X–Haley

Autobio of Miss Jane Pittman – Gaines

The Awakening – Chopin

The Bell Jar – Plath

Beloved – Morrison

Billy Budd – Melville

Black Boy – Wright

The Bluest Eye – Morrison

Bury My Heart… – Brown

Catcher in the Rye -Salinger

Catch-22 – Heller

Cathedral – Carver

The Centaur – Updike

Cities of the Plain -McCarthy

Cold Mountain – Frazier

Collected Stories – Porter

The Color Purple – Walker

A Confederacy of Dunces -O’Toole

The Confessions of Nat Turner – Styron

Death Comes the Archbishop – Cather

A Death in the Family – Agee

East of Eden – Steinbeck

Farenheit 451 – Bradbury

Farewell to Arms – Hemingway

Fools Crow – Welch

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway

From the Glittering World – Morris

A Gathering of Old Men- Gaines

The God of Small Things – Roy

A Good Man is Hard to Find -O’Connor

Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck

The Grass Harp – Capote

Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald

Heart of a Woman – Angelou

Herland – Perkins-Gilmore

House Made of Dawn –Momaday

House of the Seven Gables -Hawthorne

Huckleberry Finn – Twain

Intruder in the Dust – Faulkner

Invisible Man – Ellison

The Joy Luck Club – Tan

The Jungle – Sinclair

The Killer Angels – Shaara

Legends of the Fall –Harrison

A Lesson Before Dying -Gaines

Letters from the Earth-Twain

Light in August – Faulkner

Little Women – Alcott

The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven – Alexie

Love Medicine – Erdrich

Main Street – Lewis

Makes Me Wanna Holler –

Mama Day – Naylor

Mean Spirit – Hogan

Men on the Moon – Ortiz

Music for Chameleons–Capote

My Antonia – Cather

The Names, A Memoir – Momaday

The Natural – Malamud

Nilda – Mohr

Nine Stories – Salinger

One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest – Kesey

On the Road – Kerouac

O, Pioneers – Cather

Paris Trout – Dexter

Portrait of a Lady – James

Power – Hogan

A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving

Ragtime – Doctorow

Rain of Gold – Villasenor

The Red Badge of Courage – Crane

The Right Stuff – Wolfe

Run, Rabbit, Run – Updike

Scarlet Letter –Hawthorne

The Sheltering Sky – Bowles

Shiloh & Other Stories–Mason

Short Stories – Hemingway

Some Horses – McGuane

Song of Solomon – Morrison

The Sun Also Rises-Hemingway

Tender is the Night-Fitzgerald

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston

Thirteen Stories – Welty

The Turn of the Screw James

2001, a Space Odyssey-Clark

The Virginian – Wister

Walden – Thoreau

Water Lily – Deloria

Watership Down – Adams

Winesberg, Ohio – Anderson

Winter in the Blood – Welch

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Pirsig

Reading List Grade 12AP

Adam Bede – Eliot

Alexandrian Quartet – any 1 – Durrell

Ambiguous Adventure – Kane

Arthurian Romances – Carroll

Baron in the Trees -Calvino

Beowulf – Heaney

The Book of Ruth – Hamilton

Breakfast of Champions –Vonnegut

A Brief History of Time – Hawking

The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky

A Burnt-Out Case – Greene

Canterbury Tales – Chaucer

The Clown – Boll

The Collector – Fowles

Count of Monte Cristo -Dumas

The Country of the Pointed Firs – Jewett

Crime and Punishment – Dostoevski

The Crossing – McCarthy

Cry, Beloved Country – Paton

David Copperfield – Dickens 1

A Day in the Life of Ivan D. – Solzenhenitsyn

Desert Solitaire – Abbey

Disgrace – Coetzee

Don Quixote – Cervantes

Dracula – Stoker

Dubliners – Joyce

Emma -Austen

Far from the Madding Crowd-Hardy

Ficciones – Borges

The Fixer -Malamud

Forty Stories – Barthelme

Frankenstein – Shelley

The French Lt.’s Woman –Fowles

Great Expectations – Dickens

Grendel – Gardner

Gulliver’s Travels – Swift

A Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood

Hard Times – Dickens

Heart of Darkness – Conrad

The Heart of the Matter – Greene

A House for Mr. Biswa – Naipal

House of the Spirits – Allende

100 Yrs of Solitude –Marquez

Indian Killer – Alexie

Ivanhoe – Scott

Jane Eyre – Bronte

Joseph Andrews – Fielding

Jude the Obscure – Hardy

July’s People – Gordimer

The Kitchen God’s Wife –Tan

Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Lawrence

Les Miserables – Hugo 1

The Life of Pi – Martel

Lord Jim – Conrad

Losing Battles – Welty

Love in a Time of Cholera – Marquez

The Loved One – Waugh

Lucky Jim – Amis

Madame Bovary –Flaubert

The Magus – Fowles

Man in the Iron Mask – Hugo

Mayor of Casterbridge-Hardy

Metamorphosis – Kafka

The Mill on the Floss – Eliot

Moby Dick – Melville

Moll Flanders – Defoe

Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf

Myth of Sisyphus – Camus

The Name of the Rose – Eco

1984 – Orwell

Of Human Bondage – Maugham

Out of Africa – Dinesen

Passage to India – Forster

Persuasion – Austen

Picture of Dorian Gray-Wilde

The Plague – Camus

The Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver

Power &the Glory – Greene

The Power of Myth – Campbell

Pride & Prejudice – Austen

The Razor’s Edge – Maugham

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language – Harjo

Remembering Babylon – Malouf

Return of the Native -Hardy

The Screwtape Letters – Lewis

The Shipping News – Proulx

Sense & Sensibility – Austen

Silas Marner – Eliot

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight – Mallory

Sister Carrie – Dreiser

Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut

Solar Storms – Hogan

Sons & Lovers – Lawrence

The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner

The Spire – Golding

Steppenwolf – Hesse

Storyteller – Silko

The Stranger – Camus

Sula – Morrison 192

A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens

Tess of D’Urbervilles – Hardy

Things Fall Apart-Achebe

The Things They Carried – O’Brien

The Three Musketeers – Dumas

A Thousand Acres – Smiley

To the Lighthouse – Woolf

The Toughest Indian in the World – Alexie

The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Kundera

Waiting – Ha-jin

Waiting for the Barbarians – Coetzee

War and Peace – Tolstoy

Wise Blood – O’Connor

Woman Warrior – Kingston

Wuthering Heights – Bronte

Yellow Woman – Silko