summerreading-2009-gchs

 

10th Grade

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Read one of the four historical non-fiction books and answer the Reaction Guide which accompanies it.  Reaction Guides can be found here.

 

 

 Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who spent two years in hiding with her family and another during Nazi occupation of Holland, 1942-1944)

 

The Complete Maus (or Maus I and Maus II) by Art Spiegelman (Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel which tells true account of artist's father as a Jew in World War II Germany and later in Auschwitz)

 

My Forbidden Face by Latifa (true story of sixteen-year-old Latifa growing up under Taliban rule in war torn Afghanistan)

 

The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (the author recounts the story of the exile of her and her family in Siberia during WWII)

 

Honors 10 must also read Julius Caesar and Antigone.

 

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