Declaring Your Choice


Your first step will be to decide on a literary non-fiction book to read.  There are lots of great options out there.  Here are your requirements:
  •  Must be a true story about a person’s life or experiences
  • Must be at least 200 pages long and not a graphic novel
  • Must be something you have not read before
  •  Must be at your reading level (preferably 8th grade reading level and up).  You can look up a book’s reading level by searching the title and “reading level.”  The Scholastic website is a good source for reading level information: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/
  • Must be school appropriate and parent-approved

There’s a list of best memoirs on the GoodReads website that has excellent suggestions (click on this link).

Here are a few that are recommended and would meet the requirements:


  • Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  • The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

You are more than welcome to buy a book to read for this unit.  But I highly encourage you to go to your local library and check out a book for this project.  There is an entire section of Biographies and Memoirs - and you may be surprised who you find! 

 

Once you've decided what book you'd like to read, click to the next page and create a reading schedule.  Then submit the name of your book and your reading schedule for assignment 7.11.