Required summer reading:
| Paulo Coelho |
The Alchemist |
And at least ONE selection from the following:
| Margaret Atwood |
The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Chris Cleave |
Little Bee |
| Gustave Flaubert |
Madame Bovary |
| Laura Esquivel |
Like Water for Chocolate |
| Hermann Hesse |
Siddhartha |
| Khaled Hosseini |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Remains of the Day |
| Barbara Kingsolver |
The Poisonwood Bible |
| Kamala Markandaya |
Nectar in a Sieve |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Azar Nafisi |
Reading Lolita in Tehran |
You should complete at least three reading journal entries for The Alchemist AND for your selection from the list above. THESE JOURNALS WILL BE DUE THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS in preparation for a test on the common readings and a paper you will write on your selected reading.
Each reading journal entry should be labeled with the author and title of the work and the chapters covered in that entry. Please arrange each entry creating two columns as follows:
Author Title Chapters X-XX
1. Summary
(a paragraph or two)
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Your thoughts or reaction
(a paragraph or two)
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2. Two significant quotes
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Explanations of the quotes
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3. At least three new words
or words in a new context |
Definitions or explanations
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