Required summer reading:
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Marcus Zusak |
The Book Thief |
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Paulo Coelho |
The Alchemist |
Recommended selections for further summer reading:
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Margaret Atwood |
The Handmaid’s Tale |
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Chris Cleave |
Little Bee |
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Ji-Li Jiang |
Red Scarf Girl |
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Laura Esquivel |
Like Water for Chocolate |
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Hermann Hesse |
Siddhartha |
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Khaled Hosseini |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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Yann Martel |
The Life of Pi |
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Haruki Murakami |
Kafka on the Shore |
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Kamala Markandaya |
Nectar in a Sieve |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Chronicle of a Death Foretold |
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Alexander Dumas |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
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Edith Hamilton |
Mythology |
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Yukio Mishima |
The Sound of Waves |
You should complete at least three reading journal entries for The Alchemist AND for The Book Thief. THESE JOURNALS WILL BE DUE THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS in preparation for a test on The Alchemist and a book report you will write on The Book Thief (If you read an additional book from the “Recommended Selections” list, you may use it for this book report.).
Each reading journal entry should be labeled with the author and title of the work and the chapters covered in that entry. Please arrange each entry creating two columns as follows:
Author Title Chapters X-XX
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1. Summary
(a paragraph or two)
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Your thoughts or reaction
(a paragraph or two)
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2. Two significant quotes
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Explanations of the quotes
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3. At least three new words
or words in a new context |
Definitions or explanations
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