BOOK REPORT REQUIREMENTS:
4th TERM
BOOK CHOICE:
Choose any book from the list below that you have not previously read (do some research, and be careful of your choice; I don't know your ethics or what content you or your parents find acceptable or offensive in a work of literature):
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, "The Bear" by William Faulkner, Billy Budd by Herman Melville, Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Diviners by Margaret Laurence, Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Fences by August Wilson, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, |
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan,
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot, My Antonia by Willa Cather, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie, A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee, Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, or The Zoo Story by Edward Albee |
IF YOUR BOOK IS NOT ON THE READING LIST, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE REPORT.
WRITING REQUIREMENTS:
KNOW YOUR BOOK! The writing for this book report will be IN CLASS. You should come knowing your book very well. READ AND ANNOTATE YOUR BOOK CAREFULLY. BRING A COMPLETED READING RECORD WITH YOU.
YOUR BOOK REPORT IS DUE BY MAY 3RD. THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE FOR ANY REASON.
IF YOU WILL BE GONE ON THAT DAY, YOU MUST ARRANGE A MAKE-UP DAY WITH ME IN ADVANCE!
IF YOU DON'T READ YOUR BOOK OR AREN'T READY ON THE DUE DATE, THEN . . .
IF YOU WILL BE GONE ON THAT DAY, YOU MUST ARRANGE A MAKE-UP DAY WITH ME IN ADVANCE!
IF YOU DON'T READ YOUR BOOK OR AREN'T READY ON THE DUE DATE, THEN . . .