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Book Project

Book Project. The Project. With a group, read the chosen/assigned book and develop an understanding of it. You will have some time in class to read/work in your group to come up with a presentation.

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Book Project

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  1. Book Project

  2. The Project • With a group, read the chosen/assigned book and develop an understanding of it. • You will have some time in class to read/work in your group to come up with a presentation. • You will present your book as a group to the class the presentation can be a prezi or powerpoint. • This presentation will have to be at least 20 minutes long • All reading will be done individually and you will be turning in an essay. (more details to follow)

  3. Columbine • Author: Dave Cullen • Published: 2009 • Columbineis a comprehensive examination of the Columbine High School massacre, perpetrated by Eric Harris and Dylan Kleboldon April 20, 1999. The book covers two major storylines: the killers' evolution leading up to the attack, and the survivors' struggles with aftermath over the next decade. Chapters alternate between the two stories.

  4. Outliers • Author: Malcolm Gladwell • Published: 2008 • Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes.

  5. The Tipping Point • Authors: Malcolm Gladwell • Published: 2000 • Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states, "Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do."The examples of such changes in his book include the rise in popularity and sales of Hush Puppies shoes in the mid-1990s and the precipitous drop in the New York City crime rate after 1990.

  6. The Bluest Eye • Author: Toni Morrison • Published: 1970 • The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl, named Pecola, in Lorain, Ohio, against the backdrop of America's Midwest as well as in the years following the Great Depression. It is told from the perspective of Claudia MacTeer as a child and an adult, as well as from a third-person, omniscient viewpoint. The book, deals with racism, incest, and child molestation.

  7. The Book Thief • Author: Markus Zusak • Published: 2005 • The Book Thief is narrated by Death, the book is set in Nazi Germany (a period when the narrator notes he was extremely busy.) It describes a young girl's (named LieselMeminger) relationship with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa, and the other residents of their neighborhood, and a Jewish fist-fighter who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II.

  8. Today’s Assignment • On a slip of paper, rank your top three choices of books in order of preference. • Make sure that your name is on the slip and pass it up to be collected. • This is an individual, no talking required assignment.

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