Suggested+Novels+for+Assignment

EN 3041/3051 **NOVEL STUDY ASSIGNMENT: Suggested Texts** For this assignment you will be required to individually select a novel. A list of suggestions follow, or you may consider another text with approval. You must examine the novel and prepare **a short (10 minute max)** presentation on how this text might be used in a class which you are teaching. In your talk consider the textual perspective, social perspective, cultural perspective, and topical perspective. You must also outline TWO instructional activities which could be used for teaching the same novel and post those to the course Wiki. Please see assignment instructions/ rubric for specific details. **Young Adult Titles** Hrdlitscka, Shelley. **__Dancing Naked__**. Stratton, Allan. **__Chanda’s Secret__**__.__ Don Aker. **__The First Stone__** Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ronsdale  **Graphic Novels ** 2006. ISBN: 1-596431032  **The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam ** by Ann Marie Fleming. New York: Penguin (Riverhead Books). 2007 ISBN: 1-59448264-9  **Autobiography of My Dead Brother ** by Walter Dean Myers.  **Pride of Baghdad ** by Brian K. Vaughan. New York: DC Comics (Vertigo). 2006. ISBN 1-40120314-0 ISBN: 1-89493790-2  **The Plain Janes **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg. New York: DC Comics/MINX. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">2007. ISBN: 1-401211115-8 <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Maus: **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Senior Novels ** <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Bluest Eye **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">, by Toni Morrison <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A Mercy **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">, by Toni Morrison <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Color Purple **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Alice Walker <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1000 Splendid Suns **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Khaled Hosseini <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Kite Runner **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Khaled Hosseini <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Obasan **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Joy Kogawa <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Life of Pi **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Yann Martel <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Maya Angelou <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">by Mark Haddon <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">, by Ishmael Beah <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Things Fall Apart **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">, by Chinua Achebe <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Born With A Tooth **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> (Short Stories) by Joseph Boyden <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Blindness **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Jose Saramago <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Throwaway daughter **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Ting-Xing Ye//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Tom Finder **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Martine Leavitt//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Theories of relativity **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Barbara Haworth-Attard//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">The lottery **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Beth Goobie//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Another kind of cowboy **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Susan Juby//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">The Droughtlanders **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Carrie Mac//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">The song of Kahunsha **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Anosh Irani//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">The blue helmet **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //William Bell//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Wild orchid **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Beverley Brenna//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Kat's fall **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Shelley Hrdlitschka//
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Truth and Lies **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Tamara Williams//
 * __Monster__** by Walter Dean Myers
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">More than you can chew **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Marnelle Tokio//
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> by Glen Huser (Groundwood Books)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Darkwing **by Kenneth Oppel
 * The Girls They Left Behind** by Bernice Thurman Hunter
 * Red Goodwin** by John Wilson
 * Stones** by William Bell
 * Bifocal** by Deborah Ellis and Eric Walters
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Marjane Satrapi
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Black Panther **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Reginald Hudlin. New York: Marvel. 2006. ISBN 0-78512048-3
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by J.P. Stassen. New York/London: First Second.
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Ava **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Margureite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie. Vancouver: Raincoas Books. 2007.
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A Lesson Before Dying **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">by Ernest Gaines
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Song of Solomon **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">by Toni Morrison
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In Search of April Raintree **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Three Day Road **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Joseph Boyden
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Brown Girl in the Ring **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">by Nalo Hopkinson
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skin Folk **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Nalo Hopkinson
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Bite of the Mango **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">by Mariatu Kumara and Susan McLellan
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Night **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> by Elie Wiesel
 * The Road** by Cormac McCarthy
 * Please also consider: Plays, and other texts which you may consider teaching. All texts must be approved by the Course Director.**