English 92 Parallel Reading Project
Due on or Before May 1, 2009
Choose a novel, play, or nonfiction work from the following list and ask one of your parents or another adult to read that work with you. You will take an essay test of the work on May 1 and give a presentation of the work on May 4.The lexile scores (reading difficulty) are listed by the works that have scores available. Your lexile score(reading ability) from eighth grade is listed before your CRT score. If you attended a Georgia public school last year, I can look up your lexile score if you do not have it.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Haddon);novel; strong language; the narrator is boy with Asperger syndrome, who is a mathematical savant, has a photographic memory, and is extremely observant and objectively reports what the other characters say (profane language) and do.
Our Town(Wilder); play; won he Pulitzer Prize in 1938; reveals the lives of characters in a small town.
The Lord of the Flies( Golding);lexile 770; allegorical novel of boys stranded on an island; violent plot.
Cyrano de Bergerac ( Rostand); play; based on a historical Frenchman with a large nose.
The Color of Water ( McBride); Lexile 1240; nonfiction; a Black man’s story of his white mother.
The Scarlet Pimpernel( Orczy); adventure novel set during the French Revolution; precursor of spy fiction and superhero genre.
Never Cry Wolf (Mowat); 1330 lexile; nonfiction (but later discovered to be more fiction than research); humorous story of a man who researches wolves in Canada.
Lost Horizon ( Hilton); 1060 lexile; fantasy novel about a group of travelers who find a utopian society in the Himalayan Mountains.
Jane Eyre (Bronte); 840 lexile; classic romance novel; on e of the most famous British novels of all time.
A Separate Peace (Knowles); 1110 lexile; a novel about the friendship of two boys in a boarding school during World War II.
Ella Minnow Pea (Dunn); a satirical epistolary novel about censorship and totalitarianism.
You will complete the following assignments on the work before May 1:
1. Do bookcards. You may write these on index cards or a sheet of paper ( in ink or typed) and turn these in up until May 1. You may not turn in the bookcards after May 1. Book cards include title, author's name and background, genre, setting, characters, themes, explanation unique literary devices (satire, epistle, etc), plot summary, annotated bibliography of at least three sources, significant quote, and personal reaction.
2. Create a 50 item test, with answer key on the work. You must include matching, multiple choice, and true-false questions, but you may have other sections as well. This must be turned in by May 1.
3. You must create an evaluation form of at least 20 questions on the work to be filled out by the adult who read the novel and turn this form in by May 1.
4. You must give a two to four minute presentation on your work, with at least one visual. You will present May 4.
5. You will take an essay test on your novel May 1.
6. You will write an in-class essay on this work May 7 and 8.
