Distribution of calendar, Semester Exam Vocabulary List, and 3rd Six Weeks Independent Reading Selections.
Choose one of the following three books to read for the 3rd six weeks. Selections are first come, first serve. You may begin reading as soon as you get the book. Your semester exam will include questions about the book.
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
–Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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“In
the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies
fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far
more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories.
There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those
Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled
beauty were also the casualties of war. The Killer Angels is
unique, sweeping, unforgettable—a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for
America's destiny.” -Goodreads
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan – New York Times Bestseller
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(Class set check out only)
“Winnie
and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now,
because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. Winnie angrily determines that she must be the
one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth
even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small
island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World
War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming
to America in 1949.” –Amazon
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns –New York Times Bestseller
(Library check out only)
(Library check out only)
“On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.” –Goodreads
