Required summer reading:
| Willa Cather |
O, Pioneers! |
| Toni Morrison |
Song of Solomon |
AND at least ONE selection from the following (This will be the first reading of the book that you will read for your second semester research project.):
| T.C. Boyle |
The Tortilla Curtain |
| William Faulkner |
As I Lay Dying |
| Charles Frazier |
Cold Mountain |
| Ernest Gaines |
A Lesson Before Dying |
| Joseph Heller |
Catch-22 |
| Ernest Hemingway |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Bernard Malamud |
The Natural |
| Bobbie Ann Mason |
In Country |
| Cormac McCarthy |
The Road |
| Cormac McCarthy |
All the Pretty Horses |
| Toni Morrison |
Beloved |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
We Were the Mulvaneys |
| Tim O’Brien |
Things They Carried |
| J.D. Salinger |
The Catcher in the Rye |
| Leslie Marmon Silko |
Ceremony |
| Amy Tan |
The Joy Luck Club |
| Alice Walker |
The Color Purple |
| Tobias Wolff |
This Boy's Life |
| Richard Wright |
Native Son |
You should complete at least three reading journal entries for Song of Solomon and O, Pioneers!
THESE JOURNALS WILL BE DUE THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS in preparation for a test on O, Pioneers! and a short essay on Song of Solomon. You should also complete at least three reading journal entries for one of the choice reading selections, which will be part of your second semester research project. ALL READING JOURNALS FOR YOUR CHOICE SELECTION ARE DUE THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS. You will also write a book review on this book when you return to school.
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 in two columns as follows:
Author Title Chapters X-XX
1. Summary
(a paragraph or two) |
Response
(a paragraph or two) |
| 2. Two significant quotes |
Explanations of the quotes |
3. At least three new words
or words in a new context |
Definitions or explanations
|