APUSH NOVEL PROJECT
SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
1) Issac’s Storm
2) A Line in the Sand
3) Love and Hate at Jamestown
4) The Killer Angels
5) To the Last Man
6) Gods and Generals
7) 1776
8) The American Sphinx
9) Patriarch
10) The Conquerors
11) Flags of Our Fathers
12) Flyboys
13) Gettysburg
14) When Character was King
15) Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
16) Nothing Like it in the World
17) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
18) Truman
19) Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege
20) Alexander Hamilton
21) Murdering McKinley
22) We Were Soldiers Once
23) Founding Brothers
24) Elements of Confederate Defeat
25) Attack and Die
Erik Larsson
James Olson
David Price
Michael Shara
Michael Shara
Michael Shara
David McCullough
Joseph Ellis
Richard Norton Smith
Michael Beschloss
James Bradley
James Bradley
Newt Gingrich
Peggy Noonan
David von Drehle
David McCullough
Dee Brown
David McCullough
Kent Anderson Leslie
Ron Chernow
Eric Rauchway
Harold Moore
Joseph Ellis
Beringer
McWhitney
ASSIGNMENT:
300 points
100 points
100 points
Write a 6-8 page synopsis of the book. Identify and analyze
the following:
1) Author’s point of view/bias
2) Author’s thesis
3) Main ideas that support author’s thesis
4) Complete summary AND analysis of the book
Create audio-visual relating to your book i.e. model, mural, etc
Oral presentation
*** Students who donate their books to the social studies dept. will receive a 100
point bonus!
DUE DATE: MARCH 11th & MARCH 12th