Rules, you can read as many books as you want, but they do not count as Homework. If you do not complete a minimum of three homework assignments, the extra credit will only count for a maximum of 5pts. If you don’t find a book in this, list that you like you have the option of finding an English book on your own. The title and Author of this book must be presented to me before the assignment for approval.
You will be graded on if you have answered all the questions in complete sentences, if you prove that you understand the content of the book.
Some of these books can be found in the children’s section of the Zalau Library and yes, I have seen them. You can find free E-books at these sites
http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/
http://search-pdf-books.com/
What you need to do: For each book, the student must read and then write a minimum of a one page, answering these questions. At the top of the page you must give this information, in the format listed bellow
Author Last name First name. Title, where it was published, who published it. Year of publication.
Johnson, K.V. Nightwalker.
http:www.ebooks.com
If you used an e-book you must also list the web site bellow.
You can use this web page for other examples
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/sample.shtml
Questions for all books
How many pages are in the book?
What is the message of the book?
Who are the main Characters?
Describe the Main Characters
Who are the minor Characters?
Describe the minor Characters
Where does the story takes place?
What is the story about?
Did you find the book easy, hard or right for you?
Did you like or dislike the book and why
Classics each worth 20pts
You can read any book by these Authors
Peter Pan
By JM Berry
By Lewis Carroll
By Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Time Machine
By HG Wells
Around the World in Eighty Days
By Jules Vern
Frankenstein
By Mary Shelly
Dracula
By Bram Stoker
Books by Allexandre Dumas you can read any book by this Author
The three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Crisco
To Kill a Mocking Bird
By Harper Lee
By Frances Hodgeson Burnett
The Little Princess
The
The Never Ending Story
By Roswitha Quadflieg
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
True Stories
I know why the Cage Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou 20pt
A Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr 20pts
General Fiction
Like the Classics you can read any book by these Authors
Louis Sachar: 10pt
Sideways Stories from
Andrew Clements: 10pts
Extra Credit
Things Not Seen
Things That Are
Gary Paulsen: 15pts
Hatchet
Brian's Return
Christopher Paul Curtis: 15pts
Bud, Not Buddy
Elijah Of Buxton
Lois Lowry:
Books listed are worth 15pts all others by this Author are worth 10pts
The Giver
Messenger
Gathering Blue
Gossamer
Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
Crow Call
A Summer to Die
The Silent Boy
Ann M. Martin, 10pt
Baby sitters club series
Baby sitter little sister’s series
Bruce Coville 10pt
My Teacher’s series and other books not mentioned 10pt
Unicorn Chronicles, 15pts
Shakespeare books, 15pts
Roald Dahl 15pt
The BFG
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Emily's Runaway Imagination
Judy Blume 15pts
Super Fudge
Double Fudge
Dear America Series and My Name is America Series-Multiple Authors 20pts each
Examples if Authors in these two series, you can read any of the books in these two collections
Kristiana Gregory
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
Seeds of Hope
The
The Winter of Red Snow
Kathryn Lasky
Christmas After All
Journey to the
A Time for Courage
Golden Country
The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
Ellen Emerson White
Voyage on the Great Titanic
The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty
Where have all the flowers gone
William Durbin
The Journal of Otto Peltonen
The Journal Of Sean Sullivan, A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
The Journal of C. J. Jackson,
R.L Stine 10pt
Goosebumps books
Fear Street Books
Mary Pope Osborne 10pts
Magic Tree House Mysteries
Gertrude
Boxcar Children Mysteries
Laura Ingles Wilder 15pts
Little House on the Prairie books
L.M Montgomery 15pts
Ann of Green Gables
Ann of Avonlea
Gloria Whelan 15
Homeless Bird
Listening for Lions
Chu Ju’s House
Stephanie Meyer 20pt
Twilight books
JK Rowling 20pts
Harry Potter Books
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