In the meantime, be sure to finish reading your novel.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO READ YOUR DRAFT OF THE COMPOSITION THAT IS DUE MONDAY, BRING IT TO ME BY 9 A.M. TOMORROW SO THAT I CAN GET IT BACK TO YOU BY PERIOD 4. YOU MAY ALSO EMAIL IT TO ME AT sstenson@sd63.bc.ca
Thanks.
Next week:
Mon, Tues, Wed, we are in the computer lab to provide you the time you need to do a fantastic job on your two projects for the USSR texts. Good luck.
All projects are due Monday, Oct 7. Do not arrive Oct. 7 without the work. Plan ahead. If you cannot meet this deadline, please speak to me now.
Get started on the projects this weekend as they require a lot of planning and thought.
Thursday (next week): We start the new texts for USSR. You can look up each one on the internet to read a synopsis or to see how other readers have rated the book. They are all fantastic so pick one you know you would like to read.
Text
Choices
- DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage (Beirut-Canadian)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (American)
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (African-American history)
- Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (China in the 60s)
- Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong (Modern China)
- Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai (Sri Lanka)
- The Outliers by Malcom Gladwell (American-Canadian)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Germany during WWII)
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (America)
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Japan)
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (Canadian First Nations)
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (Pakistan)
