Nonfiction Outside Reading Project

1. Nonfiction Outside Reading Project This assignment has several parts: • Students will select a nonfiction book to read from a list provided by the teacher. • The book selection must be approved by his or her parent • as well as the teacher. • The students will read the book within a two week period. • While reading the book, the student will complete a form designed to assist them in their analysis of the book. • This form is an expanded version of the form we have been using in class. • It is important to work on the form the entire time they are reading the book rather than waiting until the end. • Once the student has read the book and completed the analysis, they will respond to the book with a research paper. They will have approximately a week and a half to complete the paper. • It will be at least three pages long, • using at least three outside sources for information, • prepared in MLA format, • and in which the student will take a position on an issue raised in the book that he or she read.

2. Memoirs, Biographies, Autobiographies, and other narrative non-fiction • Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson • I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson • In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson • Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson • The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer • The Color of Water by James McBride • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls • Half-Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls • Alive by Piers Paul Read • Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green by Johnny Rico • We Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. Norman • Seal Team Six by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin • American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle

3. Memoirs, Biographies, Autobiographies, and other narrative non-fiction • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot • Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts • Life Freaks Me Out: And Then I Deal with It by K.L. Hong • tuesdays with Morrieby Mitch Albom • 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston • Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals • Med Head: My Knock-down, Drag-out, Drugged-up Battle with My Brain by James Patterson • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich • Catch Me If You Canby Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding • Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff • The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon • Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson • Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan • Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan • Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent