MID 20 TH CENTURY (1940 -1970) English & U.S. History Paper 11 th Grade 2011.
English & U.S. History Paper 11 th Grade 2011 LATE 20 TH CENTURY & MOST MODERNISM (1970 – 2000)
-
Upload
garey-reeves -
Category
Documents
-
view
213 -
download
0
Transcript of English & U.S. History Paper 11 th Grade 2011 LATE 20 TH CENTURY & MOST MODERNISM (1970 – 2000)
“Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial
development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur
Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis,
M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power-taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the
highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the
natural habitat.”
•Historical Connections: Environmental movement
EDWARD ABBEYTHE MONKEY WRENCH GANG
“An account of the author's existence, observations and
reflections, as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah.”
•Historical Connections: Environmental movement,
National Parks development
EDWARD ABBEYDESERT SOLITAIRE: A SEASON IN THE WILDERNESS
“In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo
landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars,
he returned home-- physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever
gone.”
•Historical Connections: Vietnam War
PHILIP CAPUTOA RUMOR OF WAR
“The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of
Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes
heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in
Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become.”
•Historical Connections: Hispanic experience in America
SANDRA CISNEROSTHE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET
“This collection contains Bob Dylan's lyrics, from his first
album, Bob Dylan, to 2001's "Love and Theft.””
Historical Connections: Social issues
BOB DYLANLYRICS: 1962-2001
“Multigenerational saga of two extended families who live on
and around a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota.”
•Historical Connections: Contemporary Native American
experience
LOUISE ERDRICHLOVE MEDICINE
“As her husband's health deteriorates, Enid faces the disappointments in her life including her three grown
children.”
•Historical Connections: Changing American dream, 1990s, Disintegration of the
family
JONATHAN FRANZENTHE CORRECTIONS
“This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave
and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's.”
•Historical Connections: African American experience
ERNEST GAINESTHE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN
“A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach
visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.”
•Historical Connections: Povery among African Americans
ERNEST GAINESA LESSON BEFORE DYING
“This novel, about an 11-year-old-girl who, after the death of
her mother, summons the strength to escape from her
abusive father.”
•Historical Connections: Foster care & adoption issues in
America
KAYE GIBBONSELLEN FOSTER
“At a moonlit Indian ruin-where "thieves of time" ravage sacred
ground in the name of profit-a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-
altering discovery. At an ancient burial site, amid stolen goods and
desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places. And as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge
into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted
killer.”
•Historical Connections: Contemporary Native Americans
TONY HILLERMANA THIEF OF TIME
“A terrifying and unforgettable story of what happens in
Meany's life as a result of hitting a foul ball that kills his best
friend's mother.” 1950s into Vietnam era.”
•Historical Connections 1950s into 1960s America
JOHN IRVINGA PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
“Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time
drunk, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his
past and present.”
•Historical Connections: Great Depression
WILLIAM KENNEDYIRONWEED
“In "The Secret Life of Bees," she explores a young girl's
search for the truth about her mother; her courage to tear
down racial barriers; and her joy as she claims her place within a
community of women.”
•Historical Connections: Civil Rights South
SUE MONK KIDDTHE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
“A fiercely honest autobiography of growing up
Chinese-American in California chronicles Kingston's struggle to
balance the “ghosts'' of her Chinese tradition with her new
American values.”
•Historical Connections: Asian American experience
MAXINE HONG KINGSTONTHE WOMAN WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF A GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTS
“In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.”
•Historical Connections: Mental illness in America, 1990s
WALLY LAMBSHE’S COME UNDONE
“A cattle drive from Texas to Montana captures the history of the American West in truly epic
fashion. The author takes almost every hoary tradition of the
nineteenth-century western--i.e., the good-hearted scarlet lady, friendly and unfriendly Indians, strong-backed frontier folk--and
gives each one new life and vitality.”
•Historical Connections: Western life
LARRY MCMURTRYLONESOME DOVE
“The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can
devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that
she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that
her world will be different.”
•Historical Connections: Struggle of African American women
TONI MORRISONTHE BLUEST EYE
“ It chronicles the communal strength of seven diverse black
women who live in decaying rented houses on a walled-off
street of an urban neighborhood.”
•Historical Connections: Struggle of African American women
GLORIA NAYLORTHE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE
“It all began when Kelly Kelleher was introduced to The Senator, a man she had wanted to meet since selecting him as the topic
of her senior honors thesis. Charmed and infatuated, Kelly
eagerly accepts his invitation to leave the island party where they've met and ride back to Boothbay Harbor together on
the late night ferry.”
•Historical Connections: Violence in American life
JOYCE CAROL OATESBLACK WATER
“A series of stories about the Vietnam experience, based on
the author's recollections. O'Brien begins by sharing the talismans and treasures his select small band of young soldiers carry into battle.”
•Historical Connections: Vietnam War
TIM O’BRIENTHE THINGS THEY CARRIED
“Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and
moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He
is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters
from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the
peace that was taken from him.”
•Historical Connections: Post World War II veterans, Native
American experience
LESLIE MARMON SILKOCEREMONY
“In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum,
and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.
Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When
her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way
in which it has come true.”
•Historical Connections: Asian immigration, Asian American
women experiences
AMY TANTHE JOY LUCK CLUB
“Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20
years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being
abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of
her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her
abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from
her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of
love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.”
•Historical Connections: Racism
ALICE WALKERTHE COLOR PURPLE
TOM WOLFETHE RIGHT STUFF
“Wolfe's 1979 volume chronicled the handful of
adrenaline-junkie military test pilots who became the Mercury
astronauts. Their story is juxtaposed against that of
Chuck Yeager, the ace of aces pilot who broke the sound
barrier but couldn't apply to the space program because he
lacked a college degree. Wolfe also provides insight into the political motivations for the
space race and the paranoia of the Cold War.”
•Historical Connections: New Journalism, Space race, Cold
War
“In this unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, we meet the
young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and
ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother,
Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. Between themselves they
develop an almost telepathic trust that sees them through their wanderings
from Florida to a small town in Washington State. Fighting for identity
and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, Toby's growing up is at once poignant and
comical. His various schemes--running away to Alaska, forging cheeks, and
stealing cars--lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of
possibility.”
•Historical Connections: 1950s American life
TOBIAS WOLFFTHIS BOY’S LIFE: A MEMOIR