DUAL ENROLLMENT ENC 1101
SUMMER READING - 2013
Please read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and one from the list below.
You may substitute The Glass Castle with The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr.
Copies of the Glass Castle are available in Media.
Your second book must come from this list:
You can get copies from the public library, Goodwill Book Stores, Amazon.com or local
bookstores such as Barnes and Noble, BooksaMillion, and BookStore1 on Main Street.
We have a number of free books available in the media center - come soon before they are
packed. BE SURE TO READ REVIEWS ONLINE AT AMAZON AND GOODREADS.
Unbroken – Hillebrand
Angela’s Ashes – McCourt
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
Nickel and Dimed – Ehrenreich
Friday Night Lights - Bissinger
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Diaz
The Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver
Slaughter House 5 - Vonnegut
Invisible Man - Ellison
Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Beloved - Morrison
Catch-22 – Heller
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Don Quixote - Cervantes
Beloved - Morrison
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
All The King’s Men – Warren
Native Son – Wright
The Color of Water – McBride
Zeitoun – Eggars
What is the What – Eggars
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
Omnivores Dilemma – Pollan
Fast Food Nation – Schlosser
Lies my History Teacher Told Me - Loewen
I Captured the Castle – Smith
Watch any of these films – check for suitability: A Civil Action, Food Inc, The Corporation,
Eric Brockovich, The Great Debaters, Gattaca, If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, No
End in Sight, Resolved, Waiting for Superman, Chasing Ice, Detropia, God Grew Tired of Us,
My Flesh and Blood, Winters Bone, Black Gold, King Korn, A Class Divided, The Cove, Bully
See reverse side for reading response instructions.
Dialectical Reader-Response Journal
As you read, keep a reading log in which you discuss the ideas in the selected work. In this
way you will begin to connect these ideas to your own experience. As you reflect and
question, listen carefully to your thoughts and attempt to describe the effect the book is
having on you. Write honestly, respond deeply, admit confusion, expand on author’s ideas,
and attempt to discover your own. Do this for BOTH books.
Directions
1. Divide your paper into two columns.
2. In the left-hand column, write the chapter number(s) or the page number(s) covered and
a summary of the action or ideas expressed.
3. In the right-hand column, write your personal response to what you have read (at least
5 entries). Think out loud on your paper. Many of your comments in the right-hand
column may be sentences or phrases, but some of them should be paragraphs
demonstrating your thoughtful consideration of the work. You may find it helpful to use
any of the following sentence openers as a way of beginning your personal responses in the
right hand column:
at…
Find 2 critical reviews of your books. Make sure the critics are authoritative ie New York
Times, Wall Street Journal critics, not unprofessional bloggers.
Questions: email – hellen.harvey@sarasotacountyschools.net