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