Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Quarter Reading Assignment #1, Due: 10/12/17 (100 Points)

All of the studies suggest that frequent readers tend to write, read, speak, and understand language on a level that infrequent readers struggle to reach.  For this reason, you are required to read a European classic that is at least 250 pages in length.

To get credit for your pages, you must create a poster for your classic which includes the following components:
                                1) Your name
                                2)  Name of book and author
                                3) An author bio (brief)
                                4)  A plot summary (bullet points are acceptable)
                                5)  Description of the cultural importance of the book
                                                -Why is it a classic?
                                                -How did it influence European culture?
                                                -How did it influence other works of literature?
                                                -Why is it still relevant today?
                                6)  A description of the major characters in the work
                                7) A listing (and description) of key themes
                                8) Two quotes (your favorite)
                                9) Three images

Senior Reading List (By Genre)

Adventure/Historical Fiction
The Three Musketeers, Dumas
The Count of Monte Christo, Dumas
Les Miserables, Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo
War and Peace, Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Don Quixote, Cervantes
A Passage to India, Forester
Treasure Island, Stevenson
Science Fiction/Dystopian
Brave New World, Huxley
War of the Worlds, Wells
The Invisible Man, Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau, Wells
1984, Orwell
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
Greek and Roman/Mythology/Epics
Medea, Euripides
The Trojan Women, Euripides
Bacchae, Euripides
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
The Eumenides, Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Sophocles
Antigone, Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonnus, Sophocles
The Aenied, Virgil
The Iliad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
Medieval Literature
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Beowulf
Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur), Sir Thomas Mallory
The Song of Roland
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
The Decameron, Boccaccio
War (Non-Fiction, Memoir, Fiction)
The Forgotten Soldier, Sajer
Storm of Steel, Junger
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Sassoon
Empire of the Sun, Ballard
Homage to Catalonia, Orwell
Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Tolkien
The Hobbit, Tolkien
The Silmarillion, Tolkien
Literary Fiction
Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
 The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf
Oliver Twist, Dickens
A Christmas Carol, Dickens
David Copperfield, Dickens
Hard Times, Dickens
Great Expectations, Dickens
Fathers and Sons, Turgenev
Renaissance Literature
The Prince, Machiavelli
Paradise Lost, Milton
The Faerie Queen, Spenser
Hamlet, Shakespeare
The Tempest, Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare
Measure for Measure, Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare
Love's Labour Lost, Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
As You Like It, Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare
King John, Shakespeare
Richard II, Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I, Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part II, Shakespeare
Henry V, Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part I, Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part II, Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part III, Shakespeare
Richard III, Shakespeare
Henry VIII, Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare
Coriolanus, Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare
Timon of Athens, Shakespeare
King Lear, Shakespeare
Othello, Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare
Cymbeline, Shakespeare
Romance
Pride and Prejudice, Austen
Mansfield Park, Austen
Emma, Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Austen
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Satire/Comedy
The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
Candide, Voltaire
Horror/Gothic
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
Faust, Goethe
Frankenstein, Shelley
Dracula, Stoker
The Phantom of the Opera, Leroux
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
Non-Fiction/Memoir
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn
The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
Twentieth-Century Literature/Contemporary
The Stranger, Camus
The Bell Jar, Plath
The Plague, Camus
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot
The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde (1895)
Pygmalion, Shaw
The Trial, Kafka
The Waste Land, Eliot
Ulysses, Joyce
The Lord of the Flies, Golding

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Bio Presentation, Due: 8/28/2017 (50 Points)

Craft a presentation using either Powerpoint or Google Docs which contains the following information:

Slide One: Name and Class Level
Slide Two:  Short Bio--Write a paragraph about your family, where you were born, background, etc.
Slide Three:  List Your Hobbies, Sports, Favorite Activities
Slide Four: List Your Favorite Movies
Slide Five: List Your Favorite Music
Slide Six: List Your Favorite Books/Authors
Slide Seven: Bucket List --Identify SIX things that you would like to accomplish before you die
Slide Eight: Life After High School --Identify, using specifics[1], what you would like to do after high school

Your presentation should include three pictures[2] that represent who you are. 




[1] Specifics help me help you with scholarships, college applications, etc. 
[2] Classroom appropriate