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.

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

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