College Bound Reading Project.docx



5386070-4762500Quarter 3 Reading Project - AS English Language & LiteratureAs we talked about with our College Bound Reading Project, it’s important not only that we read but what we read. Part of being “college-ready” is having a brain that is ready for college-level material and content.This quarter, you will read at least TWO books that will contribute to your ongoing mental and academic preparation for college and beyond. One of these books must be categorized as nonfiction or memoir. The other is a book of your choice and may include fiction, young adult literature, poetry, and/or graphic novels. You will complete two written assignments and give one oral presentation to the class to report on what you read.Remember the kinds of books that will stretch your thinking and prepare you for college:literary and historical classicsbook-length nonfictionbooks that have won prestigious awards (or by authors who have won awards)a book that is out of your usual comfort zonebooks recommended to you by educated/professional adultsReading Choice CriteriaONE nonfiction/memoir book and ONE additional novel of student choice; both must be of novel length and literary value. Must be of appropriate length and reading level for your reading skills. If you are not sure, ask!Must be books you have not read before.Must be approved by Ms. Yap.Project Tasks SummaryTask A: Reflection Sentence StartersTask B: Book RatingBook Talk Presentation: Three-Minute Persuasive Book Talk delivered to classBook Proposal dueTask A dueTask B dueBook Talk PresentationsNonfiction & Memoir/Biography Book Recommendations from ASU Prep FacultyRecommended byTitle & AuthorMs. CampbellFirst, Do No HarmLisa BelkinKill as Few Patients as Possible: And Fifty-Six Other Essays on How to Be the World’s Best DoctorOscar LondonBetter: A Surgeon’s Notes on PerformanceAtul GawandeComplications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect ScienceAtul GawandeHow Doctors ThinkJerome GroopmanPathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the PoorPaul FarmerStrength in What RemainsTracy KidderCutting for StoneAbraham VergheseThe Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca SklootGenome: An autobiography of a species in 23 chaptersMatt RidleyMs. AnzurA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusDave EggersMs. PelottePersepolis I & IIMarjane SatrapiThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceMalcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingMalcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of SuccessMalcolm GladwellDavid and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling GiantsMalcolm GladwellMs. HsiaoThe End of Overreating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite David KesslerFast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American MealEric SchlosserMs. CalvelageA Life Decoded: My Genome: My LifeJ. Craig VenterUncle TungstenOliver SacksBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndAtul GawandeSilent SpringRachel CarsonMrs. McClueThe Double HelixJames D. Watsonany biography of Rosalind FranklinMadame Curie: A BiographyEve CurieMicrobe HuntersPaul de KruifRocket BoysHomer HickamMy Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through ChileIsabel AllendeHigh Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or NeverBarbara KingsolverMs. YapNickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in AmericaBarbara EhrenreichFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingSteven D. Levitt & Stephen J. DubnerStiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversMary RoachHiroshimaJohn HerseyEnrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His MotherSonia NazarioThe New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your MindRichard RestakNightElie WieselFarewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II InternmentJeanne Wakatsuki HoustonMore SuggestionsA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingThe Glass Castle by Jeanette WallsGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared DiamondNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick DouglassThe Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard PrestonAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon KrakauerThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal by Jared DiamondAn American Childhood by Annie DillardThe Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam KeanDreams From My Father by Barack ObamaThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael PollanThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionYour Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil ShubinEating Animals by Jonathan Safron FoerThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen KingGulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary RoachThe Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBrideThe Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard DawkinsWhen I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda SantiagoWhat If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall MunroeZami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre LordeThe Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard DawkinsZeitoun by Dave EggersA Briefer History of Time by Stephen HawkingLost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. KimThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertI Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouOn Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins & Sandra BlakesleeMaus I & II by Art SpiegelmanOn the Origin of the Species by Charles DarwinThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettMy War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby BuzzellUnnatural Selection by Mara HvistendahlA Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill BrysonRegenesis by George ChurchWasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya HornbacherBlood Work by Holly TuckerSmashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren ZailckasMastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria KonnikovaThe Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas CarrThe Story of the Human Body by Daniel E. LiebermanA Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. PinkIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteSalt: A World History by Mark KurlanskyBury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee BrownThe Devil and the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Eric LarsonThe World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas FriedmanThe Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream by Steve Fainaru & Ray SanchezThe Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy FerrisA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe World Without Us by Alan WeismanFriday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream by H.G. BissingerThe Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto UrreaA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura HillenbrandUnder the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon KrakauerKaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark MathabaneIf I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien*Please be aware that some of these book choices may include graphic language or adult subject matter. You are expected to use your discretion when deciding what is appropriate for you to read. 5761990-19844200NAMEPERIODQUARTER 3 READING PROJECT – BOOK PROPOSAL FORMBOOK A – NONFICTION/MEMOIRTitleAuthorYear PublishedNumber of PagesPlease explain in complete sentences why you want to read this book:BOOK B – YOUR CHOICETitleAuthorYear PublishedNumber of PagesPlease explain in complete sentences why you want to read this book:57594506051500NAMEPERIODQUARTER 3 READING PROJECT – BOOK PROPOSAL FORMBOOK A – NONFICTION/MEMOIRTitleAuthorYear PublishedNumber of PagesPlease explain in complete sentences why you want to read this book:BOOK B – YOUR CHOICETitleAuthorYear PublishedNumber of PagesPlease explain in complete sentences why you want to read this book: ................
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