Outside+Reading

Outside reading will enrich your novel study as you read beyond the curriculum.
 * Your task is to select books from our bookshelf, the library, or from your own home collection. Books may or may not be related directly to what we are reading in class.
 * You should show each outside reading book to me (I want to see what you are reading so that I we can discuss as you go, and I can suggest other works you may find interesting.)
 * Then read at your own speed. Each of us has our own reading speed, so I want you to find yours, and work to increase it.
 * You need to read at least one work during the trimester, but are encouraged to read as many works as you desire.
 * When you have completed a work, enter a synopsis of the story in our class //Book Review Journal.//
 * Then, decide upon an activity you would like to complete so that you may share your reading with the class. A collection of ideas and activities is assembled for you in the Multiple-Intelligence Activities pocket organizer in the classroom.
 * When you have completed your written project, just click the discussion tab above. Find the term for which you are entering your project, and follow the instructions you find there.
 * The following works are recommended for students who want to deepen their understanding of the themes we are studying in class:
 * //The Color of My Words//, by Lynn Joseph (//Jaguar//)
 * //A Single Sh//ard, by Linda Sue Park (//Walkabout//)
 * //Walk Two Moons//, by Sharon Creech (//Walkabout//)
 * //Empire of the Sun//, by J.G. Ballard (//Walkabout//)
 * //Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind//, by Suzanne Fisher Staples (//Out of the Dust//)
 * //The Music of Dolphins// or //Letter from Rifka//, by Karen Hesse (//Out of the Dust//)
 * //Farewell to Manzanar,// by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (//Number the Stars//)
 * //Zlata's Diary,// by Zlata Filipovik
 * //The Diary of Anne Frank//, by Anne Frank (//Number the Stars)//
 * //The Devil's Arithmetic//, by Jane Yolan (//Number the Stars//)
 * //A Girl Named Disaster//, by Nancy Farmer (//The Giver//)

For those of you wishing to read more of the classics, the following are recommended:


 * Journey to the Center of the Earth or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, or Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
 * Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, or White Fang, by Jack London
 * Kidnapped or Treasure Island, by Robert L. Stevenson
 * O Pioneers, by Willa Cather
 * Secret Garden, by Burnett
 * Swiss Family Robinson, by Wyss
 * Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Robert C. Doyle
 * A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, or Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
 * Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
 * House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
 * Life on the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
 * Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane