Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry and 3 other books

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:

Read the required 4 books, and write on the theme of "discoveries."  What discoveries do the characters or writers make?  What discoveries do you make?

All essays must meet the following length requirements:

2 pages, typed double-spaced

All essays are due the second week of school.

Discoveries

My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Sula, Toni Morrison
An Island Like You, Judith Ortiz Cofer
Jesse, Gary Soto
House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittmann, Ernest Gaines
Dawn, Octavia Butler
Yoruba Girl Dancing, Simi Bedford
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Anne Frank Remembered, Miep Gies
Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
My Perfect Life, Lynda Barry
Lyddie, Catherine Paterson
Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
The Alienist, Caleb Carr
The Cage, Ruth Sender
Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Almost a Woman, Esmerelda Santiago
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Soul Kiss, Shay Youngblood
Profiles in Courage, John Kennedy
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Great Expections, Charles Dickens
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Shade's Children, Garth Nix
Cleopatra: Daughter of the Nile, Kristiana Gregory
Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi, John Moyne
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
Slaughterhouse V or the Children's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut