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Step 1: Choose your reading from the choices below:

1st Quarter Options
--> The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
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ONLINE:  http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/whiteth-onceandfutureking/whiteth-onceandfutureking-00-h.html#chap0101​

2nd Quarter Options
--> As You Like It by Shakespeare
--> Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
--> A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
ALL 3 ONLINE: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
--> Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
ONLINE: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/779/779-h/779-h.htm
--> A book of the Old Testament (King James Version) that is structured in a narrative format
ONLINE: https://www.biblica.com/bible/
--> Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

3rd Quarter Options
--> Any novel by Jane Austen except Pride and Prejudice
--> Any novel by Charles Dickens except Great Expectations
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Any work by Oscar Wilde except The Importance of Being Earnest
--> Any novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
--> Any novel by H.G. Wells
--> Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
--> Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
--> Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
--> Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
--> The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
--> King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
--> Dracula by Bram Stoker
--> Any novel by Rudyard Kipling
--> Any novel by Virginia Woolf
--> Any novel by Agatha Christie except Murder on the Orient Express or Death on the Nile
--> Any major work by C.S. Lewis except the Narnia series
--> Any major work by James Joyce
--> Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
--> Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
--> The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
--> Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

MANY OF THESE TITLES AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.gutenberg.org/

4th Quarter Options
--> A novel set in and/or written by an author from a former British colony/Commonwealth nation (not the United States)

https://thecommonwealth.org/regions/pan-commonwealth
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Step 2: Maintain a Double-Entry, Reader-Response journal as you read the novel [typed or handwritten is acceptable]:

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 The purpose of the RR Journal is to get you to think critically as you make your way through the text.  The left side will always involve a quotation and page citation.  Entries on the right side may include, but are not limited to:

1) Media Comparisons -- What are similarities/differences between aspects of the novel and other media?
2) Personal Connections — How can you relate to the characters and their experiences?
3) General Reactions—Describe things that stand out along the way and your reaction to them?  
4) Making Sense -- How do you understand things as they stand?  Do you have any predictions?
5) Diction and Vocabulary -- What do particular words mean in context?  Why are some words better choices than others?

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Suggestions:
--> THIS IS NOT A BOOK SUMMARY! Instead, your responses are meant to be creative and “outside of the box” without wasting space telling me what your novel was about.

--> Response type, frequency, and length will vary.  Respond when you feel it is appropriate to do so, but shoot for variety,

--> Your responses must be thorough. They also need to represent chronological progression through the book and a consistent attempt to both understand and “talk back” to the story. 

--> Consider keeping a note in your phone with your citations and responses as you read.  At the conclusion of the novel, typing them will be a breeze!

Step 3: Complete one of the following options from the file below [each option can earn up to an A]:

--> 1 A Project
--> 2 B Projects
--> 4 C Projects
--> 1 B and 2 C Projects
alternative_book_reports__1_.pdf
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