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4th Quarter Book List AP World History

When the atomic All Quiet on the Brutally vivid, Solzhenitsyn's first Dawn , the second is a bomb was dropped on Western Front is a book, this economical, book in Elie Wiesel's nove by Pearl S. Buck , few could novel by Erich Maria Adam relentless novel is one masterful Night published in 1931 and have anticipated its Remarque, a German Bagdasarian's of the most forceful trilogy, which begins awarded the Pulitzer potential for veteran of World War artistic indictments of with the unforgettable Prize for the Novel in devastation. Pulitzer I. The book describes Forgotten Fire political oppression in memoir Night and 1932. The bestselling prize-winning author the German soldiers' the Stalin-era Soviet concludes with the novel in the United recorded extreme physical and is based on the acclaimed novel Day States in both 1931 Union. The simply the stories of mental stress during (previously titled The and 1932, it was an experiences of told story of a typical, Hiroshima residents the war, and the Accident ), is a influential factor in shortly after the detachment from his great-uncle grueling day of the haunting meditation Buck winning the titular character's life explosion and, in civilian life felt by during the on guilt, moral Nobel Prize for 1946, Hiroshima was many of these soldiers in a labor camp in ambiguity, and the Literature in 1938. It is published, giving the upon returning home Armenian Siberia, is a modern justification man the first book in a world first-hand from the front. classic of Russian makes for the act of trilogy that includes accounts from people Holocaust. The literature and quickly murder. Elisha, a Sons (1932) and A who had survived it. cemented young Holocaust House Divided The novel was first absolutely The words of Miss Solzhenitsyn's survivor now living as (1935).The novel of published in Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs. relentless series a terrorist in British- family life in a November and international Nakamara, Father controlled Palestine, Chinese village before December 1928 in the of vile events is reputation upon Kleinsorg, Dr. Sasaki, awaits dawn, when he the 1949 Revolution German newspaper publication in 1962. It and the Reverend almost has been ordered to was a best-seller in Vossische Zeitung and is painfully apparent Tanimoto gave a face kill a captive English both 1931 and 1932 in book form in late unbearable, but that Solzhenitsyn to the statistics that officer. Caught and has been a steady January 1929. The himself spent time in saturated the media between the manifold favorite ever since. In book and its sequel, the quiet the gulags--he was and solicited an horrors of the past and 2004, the book was Back , were imprisoned for nearly overwhelming public elegance of the troubling returned to the best among the books response. Whether a decade as dilemmas of the seller list when chosen banned and burned in Bagdasarian's you believe the bomb punishment for present, Elisha by the television host Nazi Germany. It sold made the difference in writing makes making derogatory wrestles with guilt, for 2.5 million copies in the war or that it statements about ghosts, and ultimately Oprah's Book Club. twenty-five languages this a novel of should never have Stalin in a letter to a God as he awaits the The novel helped in its first eighteen been dropped, truth and friend . appointed hour for his prepare Americans of "Hiroshima" is a must months in print . act of assassination. the 1930s to consider read for all of us who beauty. Chinese as allies in the live in the shadow of coming war with armed conflict. Japan.

ASSIGNMENT: BOOK JOURNAL 6. What was one of your favorite lines (sentences, quotes, etc.) in what you read today? Copy it down and tell why you liked it. (It can be more than a sentence if you like, but not too long—you still need to write 100 words of your own.) After EVERY 40 pages in your book, choose ONE of the following Explain how the author creates suspense in this book. questions and write a response of at least 100 words. Use examples 7. How did what you read today make you feel? What emotions did the reading evoke? Why? and explanations to support your thinking. Don’t forget to mention 8. What do you think about a particular character’s actions? Was he/she right or the title author of your book. YOU MUST DO THIS FOR EVERY 40 wrong to do what they did? PAGES, minimum of five (5) entries. 9. Do you think you would read another book by this author? Why or Why not? 10. What other character(s) besides the main character is/are really important to the story? How and Why? 1. How is a character in your book similar to a character in another book , 11. Make up a motto that one of the characters seems to live by. How and why story, or movie? does this fit this character? 2. What does this book remind you of in your own life? Why? 12. If you could change one thing in this book, what would it be? Why would 3. What does this book make you wonder about? Why? you change it? 4. What just happened in your book , and what do you think will happen 13. What has surprised you in this book? Why? Explain. next? Why? 14. What in the book upsets you or bothers you? Why? 5. What character do you like most in this book and/or what character do 15.What is the author’s main message in this section of the book? Explain. you like least? Why? 16. COME UP WITH YOUR OWN PROMPT ABOUT YOUR SECTION…