Suggested+Texts+Part+A

//For this assignment you will be required to individually select a novel//. A list of suggestions follow, or you may consider another text with approval. You must examine the novel and prepare **report and wiki posting which details** how this text might be used in a class which you are teaching. In your report consider the textual perspective, social perspective, cultural perspective, and topical perspective. You must also outline TWO instructional activities which could be used for teaching the same novel and post those to the course Wiki. Please see assignment instructions/ rubric for specific details. Hrdlitscka, Shelley. **__Dancing Naked__**. Stratton, Allan. **__Chanda’s Secret__**__.__ Don Aker. **__The First Stone__** **Throwaway daughter ** by //Ting-Xing Ye// **Tom Finder ** by //Martine Leavitt// **Theories of relativity ** by //Barbara Haworth-Attard// **The lottery ** by //Beth Goobie// **Another kind of cowboy ** by //Susan Juby// **The Droughtlanders ** by //Carrie Mac// **The song of Kahunsha ** by //Anosh Irani// **The blue helmet ** by //William Bell// **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Wild orchid **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Beverley Brenna// **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Kat's fall **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Shelley Hrdlitschka// **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Truth and Lies **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Tamara Williams// **__Monster__** by Walter Dean Myers **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">More than you can chew **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> by //Marnelle Tokio// **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Glen Huser (Groundwood Books) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Darkwing ** by Kenneth Oppel **The Girls They Left Behind** by Bernice Thurman Hunter **Bifocal** by Deborah Ellis and Eric Walters **The Absoloutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian** by Sherman Alexie **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Graphic Novels **
 * NOVEL STUDY ASSIGNMENT - Part A: Suggested Texts **
 * Young Adult Titles **
 * Red Goodwin** by John Wilson
 * Stones** by William Bell

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">by Marjane Satrapi

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Black Panther

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">by Reginald Hudlin. New York: Marvel. 2006. ISBN 0-78512048-3 **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by J.P. Stassen. New York/London: First Second. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2006. ISBN: 1-596431032 **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Ann Marie Fleming. New York: Penguin (Riverhead Books). 2007 ISBN: 1-59448264-9 **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Autobiography of My Dead Brother **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Walter Dean Myers. **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Pride of Baghdad **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Brian K. Vaughan. New York: DC Comics (Vertigo). <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2006. ISBN 1-40120314-0 **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Ava **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Margureite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie. Vancouver: Raincoas Books. 2007.  <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">ISBN: 1-89493790-2 **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Plain Janes **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg. New York: DC Comics/MINX. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2007. ISBN: 1-401211115-8 **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Maus: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">**Red: A Haida Manga** by Michael Nicoli Yahgulanaas **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Senior Novels ** **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">A Lesson Before Dying **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">by Ernest Gaines **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Song of Solomon **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">by Toni Morrison **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Bluest Eye **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">, by Toni Morrison **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">A Mercy **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">, by Toni Morrison **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Color Purple **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Alice Walker **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1000 Splendid Suns **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Khaled Hosseini **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Kite Runner **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Khaled Hosseini **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Obasan **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Joy Kogawa **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">In Search of April Raintree **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Life of Pi **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Yann Martel **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Maya Angelou **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">by Mark Haddon **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">, by Ishmael Beah **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Things Fall Apart **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">, by Chinua Achebe **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Three Day Road **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Joseph Boyden <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">**Through Black Spruce** by Joseph Boyden **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Blindness **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Jose Saramago **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Brown Girl in the Ring **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">by Nalo Hopkinson **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Skin Folk **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Nalo Hopkinson **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Bite of the Mango **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">by Mariatu Kumara and Susan McLellan **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Night **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> by Elie Wiesel **The Road** by Cormac McCarthy Nadine Gordimer - July's People Wole Soyinka - Death and the King's Horseman (play) Anita Rau Badami - The Hero's Walk (Indo-Canadian) Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines (Partition on India) Salman Rushdie - Shame Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (Booker Prize winner) VS Naipaul - In a Free State (short story) Jamaica Kincaid - Lucy (colonial education) **Please also consider: Plays, and other texts which you may consider teaching. All texts must be approved by the Course Director.