10 th World Literature Parallel Reading Assessment 2013-2014 Below is a list of world literature texts. This semester, you will read a book approved by both the teacher and your parents or guardians, publish a book review, and give an oral presentation to the class persuading them to read the book. Next semester, you will read a different approved book and complete the assignment again. You must obtain your copy of your novel by Friday, October 18 th , 2013. Book Review Due Date: Monday December 2 nd , 2013. Presentation Due Date: Tuesday, December 10 th – Friday, December 13 th , 2013.

Here are some suggestions for your parallel reading assignment: 1. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah 2. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 3. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston 4. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden 5. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan 6. House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 7. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 8. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas 9. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni 10. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 12. The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged) by Alexandre Dumas 13. Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Halloway 14. Acceleration by Graham McNamee 15. Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz by Mona Ruiz You may also choose your own novel if it is written by American author on an international subject or an international author with teacher and parent approval. Some of the novels on this list, and in the world, have more mature themes than others, so parent approval for all choices is mandatory. Assignment: 1. Write a book review. (100-250 words) a. State the author’s purpose including the theme. b. Evaluate the book for interest, accuracy, objectivity, importance, thoroughness, and usefulness to its intended audience. c. Summarize briefly the book’s content. 2. Oral presentation persuading others in the class to buy the book (2.5 – 5 minutes) a. Incorporate some form of media: audio or visual or both. b. Hook your audience in a creative manner. You could use a quote, question, statistic, fact, music, visual, or something really out of the box. c. Introduce the book. Show it to your audience. Be sure to give the title and author. d. Provide some background information about the author. This should only be a brief portion of your presentation. Be sure to tell your audience what source you have used for this information. (No Wikipedia or Google!) e. Briefly summarize the book. You should spend about thirty seconds on this portion, but do not tell us the ending. f. Read a brief excerpt from the book. The passage you select should be a significant passage that describes a main character in some way, represents an important point in the plot, or reflects the author’s style. g. Review the book. This is the important part of your talk. You might comment on the book’s theme, problem, conflict, character development, or believability. Your opinion counts. What did you like? What might other readers like? Relate your talk to the visual material included in your presentation. Make a recommendation to other students. “Sell” this book to those you believe would enjoy it. h. If the book has been made into a movie and you have seen it, you might also want to compare and contrast the book and the film. If you wish, you can submit a link to a YouTube video prior to the day of presentation. You may play up to 30 seconds of the video clip. Bonus Points: 1. Take a picture of yourself reading your book in an unusual place. Your picture must be school appropriate and printed out. 2. Submit your book review to Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Provide a screenshot of your submission or submit your review under supervision of the teacher during a lab day.

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Student Name:

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Book title: ______Author:

______I, ______(print) parent name, give my child permission to read the book listed above for their fall 10th World Literature Parallel Reading

Assignment.

Signed: ______Date:

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Parallel Reading Checklist: Name______

To be completed by each deadline. Each step may be turned in early. The deadline for each step is final, no partial credit per step. 10 points per step.

Task Details Teacher Initial to Final Deadline to show completion earn points for each step 1. I have my book □Title: Friday 10/18

2. One Pager #1 My Reading Rate: Friday 10/18

3. One Pager #2 Friday 10/25 I have read 1/3 of my book Friday 4. One Pager #3 11/1 I have read 1/2 of my book Friday 5. One Pager #4 11/8 I have finished reading my book. Friday 6. One Pager #5 11/15

7. One Pager #6 Friday 11/22

8. I have prewritten my book □Plot Summary Monday review □Author’s Purpose 11/18 Evaluate: □interest □accuracy □objectivity □importance □thoroughness □usefulness

9. I have drafted my book □Hand written, or typed Monday 11/18 review and emailed it to myself 10. I have revised and edited □I looked over it. Tuesday my book review □Who else looked over it? 11/19 ______11. I have typed my book □Types and saved as 2nd Tuesday review draft and emailed it to 11/19 myself 12. I have prewritten my Friday presentation 11/22 13. I have checked to make □Times New Roman Monday sure my abstract is in MLA □12 point font 12/2 format □Double space □1 in margins □MLA heading on first page 14. I have “uploaded” my □3 step: saw the Monday abstract to turnitin.com congratulations screen 12/2 15. I have checked my □My score is ______. Monday originality score. □I don’t have any 12/2 paragraphs highlighted. □My score is under 20% 16. If my originality score is □I have made sure that my Monday above 20% I have revised and words are my own. 12/2 edited to make sure I haven’t □I have “uploaded” my plagiarized. submission again. □My originality score is______. 17. My Presentation is All I have to do is practice Friday complete 12/6

18. Presentation Day My Day to Present is: Tues 12/10 Tues 12/10 Wed 12/11 Wed 12/11 Thurs 12/12 Thurs 12/12 Friday 12/13 Friday 12/13 Book Review Rubric 100 points

Exceeds—You have Meets—You have Needs Improvement Not Evident— completely adequately —You have not You have either explained this part explained this part adequately explained not included this of the book, using of the book, using this part of the book, part of the book, evidence from the evidence from the or you have not used or you have not text. text. evidence from the even approached text. adequate coverage of the topic. 100-250 words 200-250 words 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points 0 points State the author’s 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points purpose including 0 points theme. Evaluate the book for 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points interest 0 points Evaluate the book for 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points accuracy 0 points Evaluate the book for 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points objectivity 0 points Evaluate the book for 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points importance 0 points Evaluate the book for 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points thoroughness 0 points Evaluate the book for 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points usefulness 0 points Summarize the 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points book’s content. 0 points Oral Presentation Rubric

Exceeds—You have Meets—You have Needs Improvement Not Evident— completely adequately —You have not You have either explained this part explained this part adequately explained not included this of the book, using of the book, using this part of the book, part of the book, evidence from the evidence from the or you have not used or you have not text. text. evidence from the even approached text. adequate coverage of the topic. Incorporate some 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points form of media: 0 points Audio/visual Hook your audience 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points in an creative manner 0 points Introduce the book 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points 0 points Provide author 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points background 0 points Source for author 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points background 0 points Summarize the book 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points (Don’t give away the 0 points ending!) Read a brief , 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points significant passage 0 points from the book that describes a main character, represents an important plot point, or reflects the author’s style Review the book 20 points 18 points 17 points 10 points 0 points Movie comparison 10 points 8 points 7 points 5 points 0 points Bonus Points

Take a picture with +5 +0 +0 +0 your book Submit your book +5 +0 +0 +0 review to Amazon or Barns & Noble