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Independent Reading Project

Double Entry Journal

The following are tasks to complete about your chosen novel that make up your Independent Reading Project. Make sure you have finished your novel before completing the tasks.

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The entire project is due:

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Task 1 (15 pts): Create a timeline of events from this novel. For each event, explain the significance of that event to the novel’s plot.

 

*Note: The challenge in this task will be to elaborate enough to fully explain each event’s significance while still staying concise.

 

Task 2 (30): Write at least three journal entries from the point of view of one character (or different character for each entry) about the events in the novel. Each entry must be at least two paragraphs in length.

 

Task 3 (20 pts): Choose four quotes from this novel and complete a DEJ analysis of each.

 

Task 4 (30 pts): Write five higher-level thinking questions about the events

from this novel. Include the answers to each question (answers must be at least 3-5

sentences long).

 

Task 5 (40 pts): Create two original essay prompts about your novel that a

teacher could potentially use. Write an essay in response to one of these prompts.

 

Task 6 (15 pts): Create a cover page for your project, and organize your materials in a presentable manner.

 

Total Points – 150

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*Count only days you will actually read…be realistic. Also, give yourself time between finishing and the due date.

 

Reading Pacing Guide

 

Pages in your book:

 

Days* from now until due:  ÷

 

                                                 =                              (pages to read per day)

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Extra Credit Opportunities:

 

  1. Turn in your project early

  2. Read more than one novel;

      Submissions for 2nd novels need only tasks 1, 3, 5, and 6

Independent Reading Project (Fiction)

Independent Reading Project (Non-Fiction)

The following are tasks to complete about your chosen novel that make up your Independent Reading Project. Make sure you have finished your novel before completing the tasks.

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Task 1 (10 pts): Either name or rename two chapters from the book. For each new chapter title, you must write a paragraph justification of why your new title is more appropriate based on your understanding of the text. *If you feel satisfied with the chapter titles, you can keep the names, and explain why two of these titles are appropriate.

 

Task 2 (25 pts): Find five of the most interesting and/or useful pieces of information or statements embedded in the work. Copy these statements down and explain how they contribute to the author’s overall purpose. Make sure that you cite the page numbers.

 

Task 3 (25 pts): Write five higher-level thinking questions about the text or the content/subject it explores. These questions should be “exploratory” in nature, and could be used for a Socratic Seminar. Include the answers to each question (must be at least 3 - 5 sentences long).

 

Task 4 (60 pts): Develop an original critical/analytical response to either the author, the work, or some of the content associated with the work. In doing this, you can compose an Op – Ed to a magazine, write a letter to the writer or publishing company (has to be a rhetorical masterpiece), complete original scholarly analysis, or if you are particularly inspired, you can write an original piece of creative nonfiction that deals with either the author, or the content of their work. *needs to be at least one page double spaced, and ready for publication.

 

*Must complete a self-reflection in which you discuss your intentionality, your process, your motivation for stylistic or rhetorical choices, and what you learned while completing this specific activity. This should be at least a half a page double- spaced.

 

Task 5 (30) : Create a cover page for your project, and organize your materials in a presentable, logical, and creative manner.

 

Total Points – 150

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*Count only days you will actually read…be realistic. Also, give yourself time between finishing and the due date.

 

 

Reading Pacing Guide

 

Pages in your book:

 

Days* from now until due: ÷

 

                                                =                                    (pages to read per day)

 

Extra Credit Opportunities:

 

  1. Turn in your project early

  2. Complete a project for more than one book

The 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century

The Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House, published its selections in July 1998.

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  1. Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)

  2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

  3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916)

  4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1958)

  5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)

  6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929)

  7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)

  8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941)

  9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1913)

  10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)

  11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947)

  12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler (1903)

  13. 1984, George Orwell (1949)

  14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves (1934)

  15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927)

  16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1925)

  17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940)

  18. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

  19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)

  20. Native Son, Richard Wright (1940)

  21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959)

  22. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934)

  23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos (1937—trilogy completed)

  24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919)

  25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster (1924)

  26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (1902)

  27. The Ambassadors, Henry James (1903)

  28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

  29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1935)

  30. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford (1915)

  31. Animal Farm, George Orwell (1946)

  32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James (1904)

  33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1900)

  34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (1934)

  35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930)

  36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946)

  37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (1927)

  38. Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910)

  39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (1953)

  40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene (1948)

  41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding (1954)

  42. Deliverance, James Dickey (1969)

  43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell (1975—series completed)

  44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (1928)

  45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)

  46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907)

  47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad(1904)

  48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (1915)

  49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1921)

  50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (1934)

  51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948)

  52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)

  53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

  54. Light in August, William Faulkner (1932)

  55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)

  56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (1930)

  57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford (1950)

  58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)

  59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911)

  60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961)

  61. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927)

  62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones (1951)

  63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever (1957)

  64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)

  65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)

  66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (1915)

  67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1902)

  68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920)

  69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)

  70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (1960—series completed)

  71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1929)

  72. A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (1961)

  73. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939)

  74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929)

  75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh (1938)

  76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)

  77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1939)

  78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901)

  79. A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908)

  80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945)

  81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (1953)

  82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (1971)

  83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979)

  84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)

  85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900)

  86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1975)

  87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett (1908)

  88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)

  89. Loving, Henry Green (1945)

  90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (1981)

  91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell (1933)

  92. Ironweed, William Kennedy (1983)

  93. The Magus, John Fowles (1966)

  94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)

  95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954)

  96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979)

  97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (1949)

  98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934)

  99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy (1955)

  100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington (1918)


Read more: The 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0776722.html#ixzz2iNT8PC6x

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