ST. JEAN DE BREBEUF

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

CULMINATING ACTIVITY

ENGLISH 3U1 APPROVED READING LIST

TASK: Read one of the following works and complete the research on your given topic. Following your research, write a five paragraph expository essay of approximately 800 words using the five paragraph format. F ALC Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little Women. Bantam Classic ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1983. Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England. F ANA Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless me, Ultima. New York : Warner Books, 1994. Six-year-old Antonio embarks upon a spiritual journey under the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that leads him to question his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture. F ANG Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings. New York : Bantam Books, 1993, c1969. Autobiography covering the childhood of a woman who has been a professional dancer, actress, poet, journalist, and television producer.

F ATW Atwood, Margaret, 1939-. Life Before Man. Toronto: McClelland and StewartBantam, 1980. Three people, imprisoned behind walls of their own construction, are forced to make choices abut their lives.

F AUS Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Emma. Toronto : Bantam Books, 1981. "A Bantam Classic.".

F AUS Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and Prejudice. New York : penguin Books, 2005, c1813. F BRA Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. Fahrenheit 451. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996. A bookburning official in a future fascist state finds out that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed. F BRO Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights. Toronto : Bantam, c1981. Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.

F BUN Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. New York : New American Library, 1964. A Signet classic. F CAL Callaghan, Morley, 1903-1990. Such is My Beloved. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1989. A Depression-era tale of an idealistic, naive young priest who undertakes the salvation of a pair of prostitutes as his personal project. F CAM Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. The Outsider. Toronto : Penguin Books, c2000. Meursault leads the life of a bachelor in Algiers until he becomes involved in an act of violence that threatens to forever alienate him from the rest of society. He begins to question the moral values that he has so far taken for granted, and comes face-to-face with a new world that is both bleak and absurd. F CAM Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. The Stranger. New York : Vintage International, 1989. Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder. F CAP Capote, Truman, 1924-. In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences. New York : Vintage International, 1994. Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and of their murderers. F CON Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Lord Jim. New York : Bantam Books, 1981. A man who has been branded a coward earns the respect of the Malay people.

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The Last of the Mohicans. New F COO York: Modern Library, 2001. Hawkeye, a young frontier scout, and Chingachgook, a Mohican Indian, form an unlikely friendship as they attempt to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile country during the French and Indian War.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. A Christmas Carol. New York: Tom Doherty F DIC Associates, 2011. A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. F DIC Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great Expectations. New York : New American Library, 1980. A Signet Classic. Summary: An unknown person has provided money for the education of a poor English boy, in eighteenth- century England.

F DIC Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. A Tale of Two Cities. Toronto : Bantam Books, c1989. Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves. F DIC Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times. [New York: Penguin], 1981. The nineteenth-century tale of redemption in a northen English town beset by industrialism.

F DUM Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. The Count of Monte Cristo. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. After escaping from the island where he has been in prison, Dantes plots his revenge on the people responsible for his imprisonment.

F DUM Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. The Three Musketeers. Bantam Classic reissue. New York: Bantam Dell, 2004, c1984. During the reign of France's King Louis XIII, d'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.

F FRA Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. The Diary of a Young Girl. Bantam ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1993, c1952. A thirteen-year-old Dutch- Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

F FIN Findley, Timothy, 1930-. . Toronto : Penguin Books, 1996, c1986. When young Canadian Robert Ross enlists as an officer and is sent into the hell and terror of 1915 Ypres, he is unprepared for the horrors of war. But in the midst of the death and violence, his own compassion finds voice and he makes a decision that will leave its mark on him for the rest of his life. F FIT Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Tender is the Night. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995. The tragic and haunting story of Dick Diver, a young psychiatrist whose career is thwarted and his genius numbed through marriage to the exquisite and wealthy Nicole Warren. F FIT Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby. Toronto: Penguin, c1950. The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

F GRI Griffin, John Howard, 1920-. Black Like Me. 35th anniversary ed. Toronto : Penguin Books Canada, 1999. A Signet book.

F GUT Guterson, David. Snow falling on cedars. New York : Vintage Books, 1995. When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.

F HED Hedges, Peter. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Toronto: Pocket Books, 1999. Gilbert Grape has never led an easy life, and taking care of his overweight mother, boy-crazy sister, and mentally handicapped younger brother has nearly driven Gilbert over the edge, but then a mysterious girl arrives in town and teaches him to see his life and his family in a different way.

F HEL Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York : A.A. Knopf, [1995]. Captain Yossarian, a paranoid bomber pilot stationed in the Italian theater during World War II, faces a "catch-22" in this comic novel when he wants to fly fewer combat missions. F HEM Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. The story of Robert Jordan, an American fighting during the Spanish Civil War with the anti-fascist guerillas in the mountains of

Spain.

F HEM Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2003. F HEM Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The Sun Also Rises. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, [1995?], c1926. A group of American and British expatriates living in Paris go on an excursion to Pamplona, Spain. F HEM Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. To Have and Have Not. 1st Scribner classic/Collier ed. New York : Collier Books, 1987. A Scribner classic.

F HIL Hill, Lawrence, 1957-. The Book of Negroes. New York : HarperCollins, c2007. Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle - a string of slaves - Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes". This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own. F HUG Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Les Miserables. London : Penguin, 1982, c1976. A novel of French life, especially of the poor and criminal classes, in the early 19th century.

F HUG Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Toronto : Bantam Books, 1981. F HUN Hunter, Evan, 1926-. The Blackboard Jungle. Toronto : Pocket Books, 2004. Presents the 1954 novel in which Richard Dadier, a first-year English teacher at New York City high school, quickly loses his idealism under the tensions that tear his classroom apart due to rival students Gregory W. Miller and Artie West.

F HUX Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave New World Revisited. New York : Perennial Library, 1989. The author discusses some of the concerns addressed in his novel "Brave New World," covering such issues as brainwashing, overpopulation, and the use of propaganda in democratic societies. F KER Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the Road. Toronto : Penguin Books, 1998. Follows Sal Paradise as he traverses the American continent in search of new people, ideas, and adventures.

F KES Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Toronto : Penguin Books Canada, 1995. Cowed by sadistic Nurse Ratched, the inmates of a mental hospital are galvanized by a new patient, the free-spirited McMurphy, who enters a pitched battle of wills with the nurse.

F KEY Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. 1st Harvest ed. Orlando : Harcourt, 2004. Mentally retarded Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius, but only temporarily.

F KIP Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Kim. Bantam Classic ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1983. Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, grows up in British India and becomes involved in the British Secret Service. F KNO Knowles, John, 1926-. A Separate Peace. New York : Bantam Books, c1959. Conflicts and attitudes within a New England prep school in 1942, as a group of boys, facing service induction, are involved in personal tragedy.

F LER Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927. The Phantom of the Opera. New York: Harper Perennial, 1987. A viscount seeks to unravel the mystery of the Paris Opera House and rescue the woman he loves from the threat of the phantom of the opera. F LAU Laurence, Margaret, 1926-1987. A Jest of God. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1988. Rachel, thirty-four-years-old and not yet married, teaches school and orders her life around an invalid mother. There is one chance left for Rachel to find love in the arms of a man who wants to become her lover.

F LAU Laurence, Margaret, 1926-1987. . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. Morag Gunn spends her entire life trying to escape her roots and adoptive parents in the small Canadian town of Manawaka, becoming trapped in a demeaning marriage, and then unwed parenthood, only to find herself back where she started, and dealing with a daughter who is, in turn, rejecting her. F LAU Laurence, Margaret, 1926-1987. The Stone Angel. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley, in a final struggle for independence, escapes from her nursing home and tries to come to terms with her tumultuous past. F LAW Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-. Inherit the Wind. New York : Ballantine Books, 2003, c1951. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's 1951 play based on the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925, which opened the debate over the teaching of creationism and evolution.

F MAL Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, c1952. Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.

F MEL Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. New York: Dodd Mead, 1942. A young

seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.

F MIL Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. The Crucible: a play in four acts. New York : Penguin Books, 1976. F MIT Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond), 1914-1998. Who Has Seen the Wind. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2001. The adventures of a young boy growing up in a small town on the Saskatchewan prairie. F MOO Moore, Brian. The Luck of Ginger Coffey. Toronto : McClelland, c1960. The funny and tragic tale of an Irish immigrant to Montreal who, buoyed by unfailing optimism, confronts the ugly realities of life in the New World-- jobs are scarce, people often inhuman, and dreams of glory do not offer any lasting escape from the hard pinch of poverty. F PAS Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doctor Zhivago. New York : Pantheon Books, [1991], c1958,. Presents the classic story of Dr. Zhivago and Lara who fall in love in the midst of the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Scribner's, [c1948]. A F PAT Zulu country parson comes to Johannesburg to find that the environment has forced his sister to become a prostitute and his son a murderer.

F POT Potok, Chaim. The Chosen. New York : Ballantine Books, c1967. Two Jewish boys living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn struggle through the joys and problems of growing up.

F RAN Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 50th anniversary ed. New York: Signet, [1995?]. In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.

F REQ Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970. All Quiet on the Western Front. New

York: Fawcett Crest, 1987. Depicts the experiences of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of

World War I.

F SAL Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little Brown, 1991. An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.

F SHE Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein. Toronto : Scholastic, [197-?]. An Apple paperback. Summary: A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960. On the Beach. New York : Bantam Books, F SHU 1967. The last generation, innocent victims of an accidental nuclear war, live out their last days, make plans that will never be carried out, and hope for a miracle that will not come. As the deadly rain moves closer, the world as we know it moves toward the end.

F SIN Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. The Jungle. New York : Modern Library, 2006, c2002. A young Lithuanian immigrant, hoping to create a good life for himself and his family in the early 1900s, is discouraged by the shocking conditions he encounters as a worker in the Chicago stockyards. F SMI Smith, Betty, 1896-1972. A tree grows in Brooklyn. Current Perennial Classics ed. New York : Perennial Classics, 2005, c1943. Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century. F SOL Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Toronto : Bantam Books, 1990. Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.

F SPA Sparks, Christine. The Elephant Man. New York : Ballantine Books, c1980. A novel based on the life of a nineteenth-century Englishman called the elephant man who suffered from Neurofibromatosis, a rare disease. He was condemned to a miserable life in a workhouse until a kind doctor gave him his first real home. F STE Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. The Grapes of Wrath. Toronto : Penguin Books Canada, 2000. The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

F STE Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Of Mice and Men. Toronto : Penguin Books, 1993. Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two migrant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California. F STO Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York : New American Library, 1981. Rev. and updated bibliography: p. 495-496. A Signet classic ; CE 2302. F SWI Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's Travels. New ed. New York : Oxford University Press, c2005. "Gulliver's travels purports to be a travel book. It is a blend of fantasy and realism and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms"-- Provided by publisher.

F TAN Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York : Putnam's, c1989. In 1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember. F TAN Tan, Amy. The Kitchen god's Wife. New York : Ballantine, 1991. Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. F TWA Bogart, Shirley. The Prince and the Pauper. Edina, Minn. : Abdo Pub., 2002, c1990. An adaptation of Mark Twain's story in which young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, and learn something about each other's very different station in life.

F VON Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five. New York: Dell Pub., 1991, c1969. A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by is memeories of the firebomobing of Dreden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war. F WAL Walker, Alice, 1944-. The Color Purple. Toronto: Pocket Books, 1985. Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.". F WIL Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York : Bantam Books, 1982. The picture of Dorian Gray -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- An ideal husband -- The importance of being earnest -- The Ballad of Reading gaol. A collection of writings by Wilde including the story of a youth of exceptional beauty gets his wish to remain untouched by the passage of time when it is arranged that his portrait will age in his place.

F WIL Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. The Glass Menagerie. New York : New Directions, 1999, c1945. Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura. F WRI Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Black boy: (American hunger): a record of childhood and youth. New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. The autobiography of an African-American writer, recounting his early years and the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.