Hello All, I have become involved in the 10th grade language arts classrooms at the High School of the Future, and have challenged them all to read books from the College Board's "Top 100 Great Books" list. Despite the beautiful facilities, the students there still struggle with basic literacy. Amazingly, they have responded and have selected titles that they would like to read! Now I need to find about 100 books, to strike while the iron is hot... Could you all search your bookshelves and donate books to the cause? Below is a list of titles, but I am finding that even books such as Goosebumps and Bruce Coville are generating interest. While pushing them to reach higher, I am also concerned to "meet them where they are at". It matters that I can tell them to just take the books with them, so the more I have the better that works.... I will be working on this project until the end of the school year, and perhaps into the next. So I don't believe I could receive too many books!! Just contact me by phone or e-mail and I will come pick the books up from you.
Thanks to my altruistic, idealistic, education-focused community!! Sincerely, Patty Bulack, Arts Program Coordinator, West Park Cultural Center, at High School of the Future [email protected] 215 906-0243 *Numbers indicate number of copies needed of each title. Those without a number have already been found, but duplicates would be ok for future use.* *Selections from College Board’s Top 100 Great Books, and student selected African American Literature*: The Color Purple, Alice Walker - 9 Push, Sapphire (the movie Precious is based on this) – 3 Beloved, Toni Morrison - Heaven; The First Part Last, both by Angela Johnson – 1 Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston - Losing Absalom – The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison – A Lesson Before Dying - *Selections from College Board’s Top 100 Great Books, and other suggestions* : Kite Runner , Khaled Hosseini - 1 Romeo and Juliet , William Shakespeare (Preferred version: No Fear Shakespeare) - 4 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Lord of the Flies, William Golding - A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O’Connor - 2 Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse - 1 Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - 2 A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens - 1 Catch 22, Joseph Heller - 1 Beowulf - 2 The Fabric of the Cosmos - 48 Laws of Power - 2 A Death In The Family, James Agee - 2 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - A Brother’s Journey: Surviving Childhood of Abuse, Richard B. Pelzer - 1 Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison - 1 The Stranger, Albert Camus - 1 The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas –3 As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner - 2 Goosebumps - Selected Tales, Edgar Allan Poe - 1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain – Selected Poems, Emily Dickinson - Heat, Mike Lupica - 3 Macbeth , William Shakespeare (preferred version: No Fear Shakespeare) - 1 The Stranger , Albert Camus - 1 Holes, Louis Sacher - 1 Eclipse (Stephanie Myers) - 1 Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli - 1
