English 2 PAP Do Now: Tuesday, April 14
1. Find your JC study guide and Act I scene ii
excerpt (with Cassius and Brutus speaking).
2. Get out one sheet of notebook paper and set
it up like the paper below.
English 2 PAP
Sixth Six Weeks
Literature Circles
Nonfiction Focus
Essential Questions
• What makes someone a survivor?
• What are the varied ways that people deal
with adversity?
• How can perspective affect our “fate”?
• How can dignity be restored once it is lost?
• How is reading a nonfiction text similar to or
different from reading fiction texts?
Information about “Literature Circles”
• Thursday, April 23 will be your first group meeting day
with others who selected that title.
• During your first meeting, you will discuss a reading
schedule and expectations for group members.
• Groups will be limited to three to five members to keep
everyone accountable.
• We will have multiple groups using the same book.
• Your first reading segment and reader response journal
must be complete by Thursday, April 30.
• You will meet with lit circles every Thursday until May
21 to complete tasks and discuss assigned topics.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Summary from BarnesandNoble.com:
The first book by the beloved author of the new novel The Silver Star, the
extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment
Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers that has been on
the New York Times bestseller list for more than six years.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a
revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.
When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s
imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly.
But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free
spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of
raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and
protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents
followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense
love of a peculiar but loyal family.
Nominated for the 2006 Books for a Better Life Award
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School library $5/$11
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Nook/Kindle $10
Content Disclaimers:
Profanity: The father uses profane language (every word you can
imagine).
Mature Themes: Parent neglect, alcoholism, mental illness,
homelessness
Sexuality:
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The father visits a prostitute and brings his son with him.
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The main character is touched inappropriately on a couple of
occasions as a child.
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An adult character acts inappropriately while trying to touch
Jeannette.
Violence:
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Several physical confrontations among children, including one
with a BB gun and one with a pistol.
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Arguments between parents are extremely intense.
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A friend of Jeannette’s becomes pregnant and stabs her
mother’s boyfriend to death.
Same Kind of Different as Me
by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
Summary from BarnesandNoble.com:
A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.
An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.
A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.
A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.
It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana. . . and an East Texas
honky-tonk . . .and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood
hacienda . . . an upscale New York gallery . . . a downtown dumpster. . . a Texas
ranch.
Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, it also shines with an unexpected,
life-changing love.
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HPB North Oaks (2) $7.49-7.99
HPB Pearland (1) $5.99
HPB Rice Village (2) $3.87-4.99
Mardel.com $7.99 +ship (or free store pick up)
Barnes & Noble Pasadena $12.26
Amazon.com $11.98 + ship
Kindle/Nook $8.89-10
Content Disclaimers
This book was published by a Christian company and is
written from a Christian perspective. However, the book’s
purpose is to show how Christianity and belief in divine
intervention impacted the lives of two men and the woman
who helped bridge their friendship, not to convert people to
Christianity.
Profanity: the “N word” is used three times by the main
African-American character in describing his background
Mature Themes: homelessness, race relations, alcohol use,
cancer, death
Sexuality: brief mention of an extramarital affair that ended
and its impact on a marriage
Violence: none
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience & Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
Summary from BarnesandNoble.com:
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific
Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and
blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant,
the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft. So began one of the most
extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and
incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running,
discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when
war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to
his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.
Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a
foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater.
His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his
will. Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.
•Book Trailer
Movie released 2014
HalfPriceBooks Clear Lake (1) $13.49
HPB North Oaks (2) $7.99-13.49
HPB Pearland (2) $10.79-13.49
Barnes & Noble Pasadena $9.87 ($4 shipping)
Amazon.com $5-7.20 + ship
Nook/Kindle $5-10
Content Disclaimers:
Profanity – the “F word” is used once, and other lighter swear
words are used infrequently.
Mature Themes – Eugenics (briefly), physical and mental
torture/dehumanization, military life, PTSD
Sexuality:
• Military barracks are nicknamed the “pornographic palace”
because of the pin-up pictures that decorate the walls
• Louis sees women walking in the POW camp and briefly
thinks about how they are forced to be slaves
• A prison guard, Watanabe, is described as a “sexual sadist”
who enjoys beating prisoners
Violence:
• Childhood skirmishes
• Military deaths are discussed
• Some disturbing specifics about POW treatment when
Louis is in captivity