Different voices, different lives, different stories

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SUMMER READING

• Different voices, different lives, different
  stories

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• Many writers express emotional journeys through
  writing about their own lives, while others
  invent original characters or imagine another
  world.

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CHOOSE YOUR EXPERIENCE

• THE TEXTS
• Animal Dreams
• The Beet Queen
• The Color Purple
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• (B and A1 students only!)
• Love Medicine
• The Memoirs of a Survivor
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• West with the Night
• Woman Hollering Creek And Other Short Stories
• Jane Eyre
• Wide Sargasso Sea

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ALONG THE WAY

• THE WORK TO DO
• READ THE ENTIRE BOOK
• RESPOND TO AT LEAST 5 QUESTIONS IN THE ONLINE
  DISCUSSION FORUM www.summerbooks6to.proboards80.c
  om
• FIRST WEEK BACK, EXPECT A FURTHER ASSIGNMENT FOR
  THE TEXT

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Animal Dreams

• By Barbara Kingsolver
• Family and romantic relationships
• Environmental issues
• Native American and Latino cultures
• Choices
• Poetic and moving language
• Highly personal style

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The Beet Queen

• By Louise Erdrich
• Siblings abandoned by their parents
• Multiple narrators tell the story
• Pre-WWII German-American community in North Dakota

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The Color Purple

• By Alice Walker
• Set in the rural South of the United States
• Follows the life of an African-American woman in
  the 1930s
• Told through diary entries and letters
• Social prejudice and bigotry

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

• By Maya Angelou
• Autobiography of the authors early life
• A modern classic
• Childhood and adolescence of a young
  African-American girl
• Isolation and loneliness
• Racism and sexism
• ENGLISH B AND A1 STUDENTS ONLY!!!!

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Love Medicine

• By Louise Erdrich
• Multigenerational story following two families
• Set on a Native American reservation
• Despair caused by poverty and alcoholism
• Narration lets you get inside the heads of the
  characters

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The Memoirs of a Survivor

• By Doris Lessing
• A failing society
• The breakdown of families
• Renewed hope and heightened responsibility
• Part science fiction, part realism and an
  attempt at autobiography

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To Kill a Mockingbird

• By Harper Lee
• Inspired by the authors hometown and childhood
• Set in the South during the Great Depression
• Narrated by a young girl
• Warm and humorous, yet serious topics
• Racial injustice
• Loss of innocence

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West with the Night

• By Beryl Markham
• Memoir
• Inspired by adventures of her life growing up and
  living in Africa
• Highly descriptive language
• Exciting action scenes

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Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories

• By Sandra Cisneros
• Vivid depiction of Mexican-American culture in
  Texas
• Brief vignettes show hopes and dreams of the
  characters
• Strong family ties and loyalty

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Jane Eyre

• By Charlotte Bronte
• Victorian classic about the life of an English
  woman
• Partly autobiographical
• Lots of drama including fires, storms and
  attempted murder
• Strong social criticisms and themes of morality,
  social class and gender

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Wide Sargasso Sea

• By Jean Rhys
• Tells the untold story of a mysterious mad woman
  from Brontes Jane Eyre
• Set in the Caribbean
• Told by multiple voices
• Follows the main female character in a critique
  of patriarchal, oppressive societies

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• Refer to the Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
  policies in the Student Manual (link on School's
  web page atwww.fcaq.k12.ec)Plagiarism 
  includes any attempt to take credit for another
  persons work. This includes quoting directly from
  a book or web site, without crediting the source.
  Sources should always be referenced, a link to
  the website added, or quotation marks placed
  around the material.