Monthly Outside Reading

Students will be required to read one "MOR" major literary work of AP-level merit during six grading periods:

1) Sept. 2) Oct. 3) Nov. 4) Dec/Jan. 5) Feb/Mar. 6)April

This 30-point requirement will be assessed through the student’s choice of a dialectical journal, an artistic response, an Accelerated Reader test, or a book club meeting.
Dialectical journals: 15 significant quotes, 5 related to a worldview analysis
Art: high quality, features text from the work, explores worldview on some level, explain worldview aspects in writing or in person, turn in work mounted and ready for display/hanging
Test: brief 6-point worldview analysis with conclusion/label identified on the back of test print-out
Book Club: 3 or more students read the same book and meet for one hour or longer to discuss worldview analysis and "VISIBLE" / turn in meeting minutes for credit

Students must select two books from each worldview category during the year. Other books are possible – select from a published list of frequently cited A.P. novels/plays and confer with me about worldview category. Here is a good, core list from which you may wish to make most of your selections:

Judeo-Christian
Macbeth
Great Expectations
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Lord of the Flies
Anna Karenina
Murder in the Cathedral

Humanist/Cosmic Humanist
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Things Fall Apart
The Joy Luck Club
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Wuthering Heights
Bless Me, Ultima

Postmodern
Waiting for Godot
Life of Pi
The Stranger
Anouilh’s Antigone
Breakfast of Champions
The Things They Carried
Catch-22