World Studies Final Project
• Tells the stories of 7 Arab
and Muslim Americans
who live in Brooklyn
during and after 9/11
• http://moustafabayoumi.com/
• A personal account by
the CIA’s key field
commander on the hunt
for Bin Laden and AlQaeda
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/jawbreaker/cia
• One man’s mission to
promote peace on
school at a time.
http://www.threecupsoftea.com/
• a memoir of the
author’s experience of
who returned to Iran
during the revolution
(1978-1981) and lived
and taught in the
Islamic Republic of Iran
until her departure in
1997.
• Memoir of growing up
during the Iranian
Revolution of 1979
• Ishmael Beah’s story of
being a boy-soldier in
Seirra Leone at the age
of 13.
•
http://www.alongwaygone.com/
• The astounding story of
one girl’s journey from
war victim to UNICEF
Special Representative
• Journalist Greg
Campbell leads the
reader down the
international diamond
trail of brutality, horror,
and profit - providing an
on-the-ground and inthe-mines story of
global consequence
• Describes Gourevitch's
travels in Rwanda after
the conflict, in which he
interviews survivors and
gathers information.
• Gourevitch retells
survivors' stories, and
reflects on the meaning
of the genocide.
• You are a prisoner in a
concentration camp. A
dying Nazi soldier asks
for your forgiveness.
What would you do?
• The Zookeeper's Wife is
about one of the most
successful hideouts of
World War II. It's a tale
of people, animals,
transcendence, and
subversive acts of
compassion.
• What if Germany and
Japan won WWII?
• Set in January 1946:
London is emerging
from the shadow of the
Second World War.
Stephen Ambrose
• This 1955 volume is one of the
most remarkable survival stories
ever written. Jan Baalsrud was
the only survivor of a Norwegian
commando team ambushed by
the Nazis during World War II.
Wounded and with the Germans
in pursuit, Baalsrud escaped and
miraculously fought his way
through the Norwegian tundra to
a distant village, where he was
saved by locals who helped spirit
him to Sweden. Baalsrud suffered
frostbite and snowblindness,
came through an avalanche, and
lived to tell the tale.
• Catfish and Mandala is
the story of an American
odyssey—a solo bicycle
voyage around the Pacific
Rim to Vietnam—made
by a young VietnameseAmerican man in pursuit
of both his adopted
homeland and his
forsaken fatherland.
• The harrowing true tale
of escaped Soviet
prisoners desperate
march out of Siberia,
through China, the Gobi
Desert, Tibet, and over
the Himalayas to British
India.
• true story of a gifted
man who is in love with
the world and has set
out to do all he can to
cure it.
• A provocative and
eloquent analysis of
September 11 and it's
aftermath.
Chanda’s mother is not
herself, her younger
sister is acting out, and
her best friend needs
help. A powerful story
set amid the African
HIV/AIDS pandemic.
• Africa
• Aids/stigma
Racial and religious
discrimination in this
thriller about a Muslim
boy's life, which is turned
on its head when his
father is accused of
collaborating with Islamic
terrorists in a plot to
contaminate the water
supplies in New York City
and Toronto
•
Now abridged for young people,
Flags of Our Fathers is the
unforgettable chronicle of perhaps
the most famous moment in
American military history: the raising
of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is
the true story behind the immortal
photograph that has come to
symbolize the courage and
indomitable will of America.
In February 1945, American Marines
plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima–and
into history. The son of one of the
flag raisers has written a powerful
account of six very different men who
came together in the heroic battle for
the Pacific’s most crucial island.
• When thirty-eight jetliners
bound for the United States
were forced to land in
Gander, Newfoundland, on
September 11, 2001, due to
the closing of United States
airspace, the citizens of this
small community were
called upon to come to the
aid of more than six
thousand displaced
travelers.
• Through over 100 pages of
black and white photographs
(and 16 pages of full colour),
this memorial volume
documents the heroism of
New York's Finest and Bravest
in the hours and days
following the disaster. With a
Foreword in tribute to the
search and rescue teams —
and their fallen comrades —
by Commissioner Kerik, and
filled with the inspirational
words of national and spiritual
leaders,
• After witnessing the
slaughter of his family,
an Armenian teen
struggles to survive the
Turkish genocide of
1915.
• Under Taliban rule,
Parvana disguises
herself as a boy to
ensure the survival of
her family.
• Young girl chronicles
her involvement in
China's Cultural
Revolution.
• A survivor of Pol Pot's
brutal regime speaks
out.
• During World
War II, Navajos
use their unique
language to fight
the enemy.
• War through the eyes of
G.I.s
• Last Day in Vietnam is
Eisner's memoir of
stories about soldiers
who are engaged not
only in the daily
hostilities of war but
also in larger, more
personal combat
• From the centuries-old
enmities of Northern
Ireland, to the
Holocaust and World
War II, to the IsraelPalestine conflict, young
people share their
innermost secrets of
growing up.
• The war is almost over
and Hitler near defeat
when they fly their last
mission -- a mission
destined for disaster. Shot
down far behind enemy
lines, Jack is taken
prisoner and sent to a
German POW camp,
where his experiences are
more terrifying than
anything he'd ever
imagined.
• An oral history unlike
any other, BLOODS
features twenty black
men who tell the story
of how members of
their race were sent off
in disproportionate
numbers and the
special test of
patriotism they faced.
• Sacco spent five months
in Bosnia in 1996,
immersing himself in
the human side of life
during wartime,
researching stories that
are rarely found in
conventional news
coverage, emerging
with this astonishing
first-person account.
• John Dante is seventeen
when the Japanese bomb
Pearl Harbor, and he wants
to fight for his country. But
then he falls head over
heels for Ginny Burton, who
is against all war, and his
beliefs are suddenly
questioned. Rather than be
judged a traitor or a
coward, though, John
enlists--a decision that
changes his life forever.
Joker One
• Story of a group of
Marines fighting the
war on terror
• New York Times
Bestseller
FINAL EXAM
Part 1
• 10 minute Power Point
on what you learned
from the book
Part 2 – 3 page paper
• Why did you choose
this book?
• How does it tie into
world studies class?
• Summation
• What did you learn?
Book critique.
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• If you are in a rut –
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through boring parts
• Mark in the book
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