Schaff’s senior english book review project
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| SCHAFF’S SENIOR ENGLISH BOOK REVIEW PROJECT
Each quarter of this senior year you will be selecting a book from this list of contemporary novels and preparing an oral book review. You may elect to purchase a copy of your own or check out a copy from the classroom or any library. DO NOT PROCRASTINATE! As you read your chosen novel, take some notes to help prepare your book talk. You should be familiar with the plot, major characters, theme, symbols, and author’s tone. Further, be prepared to discuss your reaction to the work. Did you enjoy the novel? Would you recommend it? Why or why not? Finally, you will need to make an appointment with me for your book review and discussion. Allow about fifteen minutes for our appointment. DUE DATES: 1ST QUARTER _______X_______ 2ND QUARTER _______________ 3RD QUARTER _______________ 4TH QUARTER _______________ BOOK CHOICES: ALBOM, MITCH: FOR ONE MORE DAY THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE ALEXIE, SHERMAN: THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN AMBROSE, STEPHEN: BAND OF BROTHERS ANGELOU, MAYA: A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN ARMSTRONG, LANCE: IT’S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE: MY JOURNEY BACK TO LIFE (7 time winner of the Tour de France, cancer survivor) EVERY SECOND COUNTS (2003) ATWOOD, MARGARET: ALIAS GRACE THE BLIND ASSASSIN THE ROBBER BRIDE BANKS, MELISSA: THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING THE WONDER SPOT BEAH, ISHMAEL: A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER BEHRENDT, GREG: HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU BOLT, USAIN: FASTER THAN LIGHTNING: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY BRAGG, RICK: ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN’ AVA’S MAN BROKAW, TOM: THE GREATEST GENERATION BROWN, DAN: THE DA VINCI CODE BURRELL, PAUL: A ROYAL DUTY CEZAIR-THOMPSON, MARGARET: THE TRUE HISTORY OR PARADISE THE PIRATE’S DAUGHTER (Jamaican) CHEVALIER, TRACY: GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING CISNEROS, SANDRA: CARAMELOCLEAVE, CHRIS: LITTLE BEE INCENDIARY COETZEE, J.M.: DISGRACE CONROY, PAT: THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE THE PRINCE OF TIDES THE GREAT SANTINI MY LOSING SEASON COUCH, DICK: THE WARRIOR ELITE: THE FORGING OF SEAL CLASS 228 CROSS, CHARLES: HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN (biography of Kurt Cobain) DEKKER, TED: BONEMAN’S DAUGHTERS (hunt for a serial killer of young women) DE ROSNAY, TATIANA: SARAH’S KEY DIAMANT, ANITA: THE RED TENT DIDION, JOAN: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING DINESEN, ISAK: OUT OF AFRICA DORRIS, MICHAEL: YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER CLOUD CHAMBER DUBUS III, ANDRE: THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG DUGARD, JAYCEE: A STOLEN LIFE DUNGY, TONY: QUIET STRENGTH (won the Super Bowl as both a player and a head coach) EDWARDS, KIM: THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER FEY, TINA: BOSSYPANTS (humorous autobiography) FITCH, JANET: WHITE OLEANDER FOSTER, THOMAS C.: HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR FOWLER, KAREN JOY: THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB FOX, MICHAEL J.: LUCKY MAN (A MEMOIR) FRAZIER, CHARLES: COLD MOUNTAIN FREY, JAMES: BRIGHT, SHINY MORNING A MILLION LITTLE PIECES MY FRIEND LEONARD GAINES, ERNEST: A LESSON BEFORE DYING GIFFIN, EMILY: LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH SOMETHING BORROWED SOMETHING BLUE GILBERT, ELIZABETH: EAT, PRAY, LOVE GOLDEN, ARTHUR S.: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA GOODALL, JANE: A REASON FOR HOPE GRISHAM, JOHN: BLEACHERS GROGAN, JOHN. MARLEY AND ME: LIFE AND LOVE WITH THE WORLD’S WORST DOG) HADDON, MARK: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT- TIME A SPOT OF BOTHER HALBERSTAM, DAVID: FIREHOUSE THE TEAMMATES HAMILTON, JANE: A MAP OF THE WORLD THE BOOK OF RUTH DISOBEDIENCE THE SHORT HISTORY OF A PRINCE HANCOCK, BILL: RIDING WITH THE BLUE MOTH HARUF, KENT: PLAINSONG HAYNES, MELINDA: MOTHER OF PEARL HEGI, URSULA: FLOATING IN MY MOTHER’S PALM STONES FROM THE RIVER HIASSEN, CARL. SKINNY DIP ( also many other humorous mysteries) HILLENBRAND, LAURA: SEABISCUIT: AN AMERICAN LEGEND UNBROKEN: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL HIRSI ALI, AYAAN: INFIDEL (feminist critique of Islam) HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA: THE ART OF HAPPINESS AN OPEN HEART: PRACTICING COMPASSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE HOSSEINI, KHALED: KITE RUNNER (we will read this novel in class, so do not choose it for book talk) A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS HURSTON, ZORA NEAL: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD JONAH’S GOURD VINE DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD IRVING, JOHN: A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY (we will read this novel in class, so do not choose it for book talk) THE FOURTH HAND JAMES, MARLON: THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN (Jamaican novel) JILES, PAULETTE: ENEMY WOMEN JONES, EDWARD P.: THE KNOWN WORLD JUNGER, SEBASTIAN: FIRE (by the author of The Perfect Storm) KELLY, LINDA ARMSTRONG: NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH KERSHAW, ALEX: THE BEDFORD BOYS KIDD, SUE MONK: THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES THE MERMAID CHAIR KINCAID, JAMAICA: MY BROTHER KING, STEPHEN: HEARTS IN ATLANTIS KINGSOLVER, BARBARA: THE BEAN TREES PIGS IN HEAVEN ANIMAL DREAMS THE POISONWOOD BIBLE KINSELLA, SOPHIE: CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC SHOPAHOLIC TAKES MANHATTAN SHOPAHOLIC TIES THE KNOT LAMB, WALLY: I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE SHE’S COME UNDONE THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED (Columbine shootings) LARSSON, STIEG: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST LEWIS, C.S.: ANY TITLELUTTRELL, MARCUS: LONE SURVIVOR (Operation redwing and the lost heroes of Navy Seal Team 10) MANNING, GREG: LOVE GREG AND LAUREN (SEPT. 11) MARLEY, RITA: MY LIFE WITH BOB MARLEY MATHABANE, MARK: KAFFIR BOY MCCARTHY, CORMAC: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES THE ROAD MCCOURT, FRANK: ANGELA’S ASHES ‘TIS MCCULLOUGH, COLLEEN: THE THORN BIRDS MCCULLOUGH, DAVID: JOHN ADAMS McDOUGALL, CHRISTOPHER: BORN TO RUN (running secrets of a tribe of the world’s fastest runners) MOORE, LT. GEN. HAROLD AND JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY: WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE AND YOUNG MORIARTY, LAURA: THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING MORRISON, TONI: THE BLUEST EYE BELOVED TAR BABY SULA MOYERS, WILLIAM COPE: BROKEN (crack cocaine addiction) MUNSON, NATASHA: LIFE LESSONS FOR MY BLACK GIRLS NAFISI, AZAR: READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN NESAULE, AGATE: A WOMAN IN AMBER NIFFFENEGER, AUDREY: THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE O’BRIEN, TIM: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE, BOX ME UP AND SHIP ME HOME OWEN, MARK: NO EASY DAY (Seal Team Six) PACKER, ANN: THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER SONGS WITHOUT WORDS PARKER, JOHN L., JR.: ONCE A RUNNER (“the best novel ever written about running ,” according to Runner’s World) PAUSCH, RANDY: THE LAST LECTURE PESSL, MARISHA: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS PICOULT, JODI: MY SISTER’S KEEPER (OR ANY TITLE) PIPHER, MARY: REVIVING OPHELIA PROULZ, ANNIE: SHIPPING NEWS THAT OLD ACE IN THE HOLE QUINDLEN, ANNA: BLESSINGS ONE TRUE THING RUIZ, DON MIGUEL: THE FOUR AGREEMENTS ROBBINS, ALEXANDRA: PLEDGED: THE SECRET LIFE OF SORORITIES RUSSO, RICHARD: EMPIRE FALLS SCHLINK, BERNHARD: THE READER SEBOLD, ALICE: LOVELY BONES LUCKY SHAARA, MICHAEL: THE KILLER ANGELS SHANDLER, SARA: OPHELIA SPEAKS SHEFF, DAVID: BEAUTIFUL BOY: A FATHER’S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS SON’S METH ADDICTION SHEFF, NIC: TWEAK: GROWING UP ON METHAMPHETAMINES SHREVE, ANITA: SEA GLASS THE LAST TIME THEY MET SIDES, HAMPTON: GHOST SOLDIERS (W.W. I) SITTENFELD, CURTIS: PREP SMITH, ZADIE: WHITE TEETHTHE AUTOGRAPH MAN SPARKS, NICHOLAS: THE NOTEBOOK (or any other) THE WEDDING THE GUARDIAN A WALK TO REMEMBER NIGHTS IN RODANTHE THREE WEEKS WITH MY BROTHER THE CHOICE STOCKETT, KATHRYN: THE HELP (a young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi TAN, AMY: THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER WALKER, ALICE: BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER’S SMILE THE WAY FORWARD IS WITH A BROKEN HEART WALLS, JEANNETTE: THE GLASS CASTLE HALF BROKE HORSES THE SILVER STAR WELLS, REBECCA: DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE \WEINER, JENNIFER: CERTAIN GIRLS IN HER SHOES WHITE, TIMOTHY: CATCH A FIRE: THE LIFE OF BOB MARLEY WOOLF, TOBIAS: THIS BOY’S LIFE WROBLEWSKI, DAVID: THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE ZAILCKAS, KOREN : SMASHED: THE STORY OF A DRUNKEN GIRLHOOD Download 33.65 Kb. Share with your friends:
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