"Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" Robert Oppenheimer
Book Assignment: Due Date: May 19, 2023
Your book assignment counts towards your last 9 weeks average. It counts the same as 2 test grades.
You may choose from the following books.
For an A, you must choose two books and complete the assignments.
For a B, you must choose one books and complete the assignments.
For extra credit, you may chose an additional book. This will replace your lowest test grade.
In order to receive full credit, all work must be fully completed, top quality and score at the appropriate grade level on the rubric.
Choosing two books does not automatically guarantee an A for instance.
At least one book must be non-fiction.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Dee Brown
A Night to Remember: Walter Lord
Trail of Tears: John Ehle (Available at the public library and our media center as an e-book
Empire of the Summer Moon: S.C. Gwynne
Crazy Horse and Custer: Stephen Ambrose
The Blood of Heroes
Choose one from the fiction list to complete the A requirements. The links direct you to e-books on the Project Gutenberg site. The school has multiple copies of the first title.
Gods and Generals: Jeff Shaara
Killer Angels: Michael Shaara
The Last of the Mohicans : James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage : Stephen Crane
The Call of the Wild/White Fang: Jack London
Moby Dick: Herman Melville
East of Eden: John Steinbeck
For the A or B: Take a written test on the book and complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book in a series of slides.
For a B: Take a written test on the book, complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book with citations (1st book) and create a 5 minute presentation on the second book itself with citations as well as a story map of 10 squares highlighting the major points of the book (on paper).
For an A: Take a written test on the book, complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book with citations (1st book) and create a 5 minute presentation on the second book itself with citations as well as a story map of 10 squares highlighting the major points of the book (on paper). For the third book, create a product (not a prezi or ppt) and a historical analysis of the fictional book in a power point in a series of slides.
Your book assignment counts towards your last 9 weeks average. It counts the same as 2 test grades.
You may choose from the following books.
For an A, you must choose two books and complete the assignments.
For a B, you must choose one books and complete the assignments.
For extra credit, you may chose an additional book. This will replace your lowest test grade.
In order to receive full credit, all work must be fully completed, top quality and score at the appropriate grade level on the rubric.
Choosing two books does not automatically guarantee an A for instance.
At least one book must be non-fiction.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Dee Brown
A Night to Remember: Walter Lord
Trail of Tears: John Ehle (Available at the public library and our media center as an e-book
Empire of the Summer Moon: S.C. Gwynne
Crazy Horse and Custer: Stephen Ambrose
The Blood of Heroes
Choose one from the fiction list to complete the A requirements. The links direct you to e-books on the Project Gutenberg site. The school has multiple copies of the first title.
Gods and Generals: Jeff Shaara
Killer Angels: Michael Shaara
The Last of the Mohicans : James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage : Stephen Crane
The Call of the Wild/White Fang: Jack London
Moby Dick: Herman Melville
East of Eden: John Steinbeck
For the A or B: Take a written test on the book and complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book in a series of slides.
For a B: Take a written test on the book, complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book with citations (1st book) and create a 5 minute presentation on the second book itself with citations as well as a story map of 10 squares highlighting the major points of the book (on paper).
For an A: Take a written test on the book, complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book with citations (1st book) and create a 5 minute presentation on the second book itself with citations as well as a story map of 10 squares highlighting the major points of the book (on paper). For the third book, create a product (not a prezi or ppt) and a historical analysis of the fictional book in a power point in a series of slides.
Book Assignment: Due Date: May 21, 2023
Your book assignment counts towards your last 9 weeks average. It counts the same as 2 test grades.
For an A, you must choose three books and complete the assignments.
For a B, you must choose two books and complete the assignments.
For a C, you are required to do one book and complete the assignment.
For extra credit, you may chose an additional book. This will replace your lowest test grade.
In order to receive full credit, all work must be fully completed and top quality.
Your books must be from the nonfiction selections listed below.
Watch the clip(s) associated with your books. Consider the viewpoints or important aspects each brings out and analyze/expound upon those as you read your books. Clips are below.
In Harms Way: Doug Stanton
I Am A Soldier Too: Jessica Lynch/Rick Bragg (Class set here at NWHS)
All But My Life: Gerda Weissman Klein
Until We Meet Again: Michael Korenblit
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer: Irene Gut Opdyke (e-book available in our media center)
No Ordinary Time: Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Bedford Boys: Alex Kershaw (e-book availabale in our media center)
Sergeant Rex: Mike Dowling
Perfect Horse: Elizabeth Letts
Dead Wake: Erik Larson
Blood Feud: Lisa Alther
Monuments Men: Robert Edsel
101 Minutes: Jim Dwyer
Last Days of the Romanovs
Dead Mountain: Donnie Eichar
Hiroshima: John Hersey
JFK Has Been Shot or Trauma Room One: Charles Crenshaw
The Last Battle: Stephen Harding
They Called Us Enemy: George Takei
March: John Lewis
The Boys in the Boat: Daniel Brown
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh: Candace Fleming
The Nazi Officer's Wife: Edith Hahn Beer
Chosen For Destruction: Morris Glass
The White Rose: Sophie Scholl
Trapp Family Singers: Maria Von Trapp
War As I Knew It: George Patton
The Few: Alex Kershaw
Guns of August: Barbara Tuchman
Garden of Beasts: Erik Larson
Dead Wake: Erik Larson
Boys of the Battleship North Carolina: Cindy Horrell Ramsey
Patton: Martin Blumenson
No Better Friend: Robert Weintraub
Escape From Sobibor: Richard Rashke
Day of Infamy: Walter Lord
The links direct you to e-books on the Project Gutenberg site. The school has multiple copies of the first two titles.
Lost Horizon: James Hilton
1984: George Orwell
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
Catch 22: Joseph Heller
A Brave New World Aldous Huxley
All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
Inherit the Wind: Jerome Lawrence
To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee
For the A or B: Take a written test on the book and complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book in a series of slides.
For a B: Take a written test on the book, complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book with citations (1st book) and create a 5 minute presentation on the second book itself with citations as well as a story map of 10 squares highlighting the major points of the book (on paper).
For an A: Take a written test on the book, complete a power point illustrating the historical context of the book with citations (1st book) and create a 5 minute presentation on the second book itself with citations as well as a story map of 10 squares highlighting the major points of the book (on paper). For the third book, create a product (not a prezi or ppt) and a historical analysis of the fictional book in a power point in a series of slides. .
Choose an additional book for extra credit from either list.
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