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Summer Independent Reading Project: Resources
The resources below are to help you with your summer independent reading project. However...THEY ARE NOT MEANT TO REPLACE THE READING!
ELA 11 STUDENTS:
Cohort 1 (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian)
The novel on Shmoop.com (Extensive resources and analysis of text):
http://www.shmoop.com/absolutely-true-diary-part-time-indian/
Interview with Sherman Alexie (Youtube):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9vRHYMiFM
Cohort 2 (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Short video summary of the novel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqkohqLvClI
Harper Lee mini-biography (text and video):
http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021#synopsis&
Article about the novel and its author, Harper Lee:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/harper-lees-novel-achievement-141052/
Audio report celebrating the 50th anniversary of the novel’s publication on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128340180
Video about the novel and its setting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpuMF0iMx4
Cohort 3 (Black Boy)
Black Boy on Shmoop.com (Extensive resources and analysis of text):
http://www.shmoop.com/black-boy/
Article which provides literary analysis of Black Boy:
NPR story on Richard Wright:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87984371
Numerous YouTube videos on Richard Wright/Black Boy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdM-fueKkY&list=PLB61C465401C4AF5C
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION STUDENTS:
Resources for Hunger of Memory:
New York Times article from 1982:
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/01/books/books-of-the-times-255556.html
Richard Rodriguez on the importance of books and learning (speech):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz2wLvK9p9Q
Richard Rodriguez speaks about his latest book about issues of ethnicity and class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPzFYfc5vE
Resources for The Demon-Haunted World:
Overview of Carl Sagan’s life and lasting impact:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140316-carl-sagan-science-galaxies-space/
Carl Sagan’s last interview before his death in 1996 (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8HEwO-2L4w
Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan’s wife and collaborator on Demon-Haunted World) and Seth Macfarlane (creator of Family Guy) discuss Cosmos (Sagan’s most well-known work):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaMaFBcaCA
Carl Sagan on Family Guy: