Novel+Studies

Novel Studies: The Perks of Being a Wallflower include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="novel study" limit="100" **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 2006. ISBN: 1-596431032 2006. ISBN 1-40120314-0 ISBN: 1-89493790-2 2007. ISBN: 1-401211115-8 **Senior Novels**
 * Throwaway daughter** by //Ting-Xing Ye//
 * Tom Finder** by //Martine Leavitt//
 * Theories of relativity** by //Barbara Haworth-Attard//
 * The lottery** by //Beth Goobie//
 * Another kind of cowboy** by //Susan Juby//
 * The Droughtlanders** by //Carrie Mac//
 * The song of Kahunsha** by //Anosh Irani//
 * The blue helmet** by //William Bell//
 * Wild orchid** by //Beverley Brenna//
 * Kat's fall** by //Shelley Hrdlitschka//
 * Truth and Lies** by //Tamara Williams//
 * __Monster__** by Walter Dean Myers
 * More than you can chew** by //Marnelle Tokio//
 * Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen** by Glen Huser (Groundwood Books)
 * 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
 * Graphic Novels**
 * Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood** by Marjane Satrapi
 * Black Panther** by Reginald Hudlin. New York: Marvel. 2006. ISBN 0-78512048-3
 * Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda** by J.P. Stassen. New York/London: First Second.
 * 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).
 * Ava** by Margureite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie. Vancouver: Raincoas Books. 2007.
 * The Plain Janes** by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg. New York: DC Comics/MINX.
 * Maus:** A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman


 * A Lesson Before Dying** by Ernest Gaines
 * Song of Solomon** by Toni Morrison
 * The Bluest Eye**, by Toni Morrison
 * A Mercy**, by Toni Morrison
 * The Color Purple** by Alice Walker
 * 1000 Splendid Suns** by Khaled Hosseini
 * The Kite Runner** by Khaled Hosseini
 * Obasan** by Joy Kogawa
 * In Search of April Raintree** by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
 * The Life of Pi** by Yann Martel
 * I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,** by Maya Angelou
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime** by Mark Haddon
 * A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier**, by Ishmael Beah
 * Things Fall Apart**, by Chinua Achebe
 * Three Day Road** by Joseph Boyden
 * Born With A Tooth** (Short Stories) by Joseph Boyden
 * Blindness** by Jose Saramago
 * Brown Girl in the Ring** by Nalo Hopkinson
 * Skin Folk** by Nalo Hopkinson
 * The Bite of the Mango** by Mariatu Kumara and Susan McLellan
 * Night** by Elie Wiesel

Please also consider: Plays, and other texts which you may consider teaching. All texts must be approved by the Course Director.**
 * The Road** by Cormac McCarthy