CDECE 61
Extra Credit Assignment: Book Report
Directions: In essay format, please respond to the following 5 questions about a book that relates to the content we have discussed in class this term. I must pre-approve the book. Some titles to consider are listed here, by subject. You may also propose your own. Grading: Two points will be given for each complete, thoughtful, and well-written response (10 pts. total).
1. What is the book about? Write a brief synopsis, in your own words.
2. What are the primary themes of the book (its underlying message or big idea)?
3. How do the book’s key messages relate to our class discussions and the course content?
4. What are the major challenges faced by the author or the book’s character(s)?
5. Write a one-sentence review of this book for your classmates.
CULTURE
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Cuba 15, by Nancy Osa
The Distance between Us, Reyna Grande
Forgotten Country, by Catherine Chung
Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American, by Peter Jamero
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, by Richard Rodriguez
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, by Diane Guerrero
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Mexican Whiteboy, by Matt De La Pena
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Sister of my Heart, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman
The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
DISABILITY
The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir, by Pearl S. Buck
Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption, by Brandi Rarus
My Journey with Jake: A Memoir of Parenting and Disability, by Miriam Edelson
Poster Child: A Memoir, by Emily Rapp
Raising Blaze: Bringing up an Extraordinary Son in an Ordinary World, by Debra Ginsberg
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, by Rachel Adams
Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, by Ralph James Savarese
The Skies I’m Under: The Rain and Shine of Parenting a Child with Complex Disabilities, by Rachel Wright
The Still Point of the Turning World: A Memoir, by Emily Rapp
ECONOMIC CLASS
Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America, by C. Nicole Mason
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
FAMILY STRUCTURE
Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, by asha bandele
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year, by Anne Lamott
Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World, by Susan Silverman
My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family, by Zach Wahls
GENDER
Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir, by Liz Prince
RACE
The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, by Eric Liu
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial identity, by Sil Lai Abrams
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
, James McBride
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow
Half + Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural, by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, by Jeff Hobbs
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, by Tim Wise
SEXUAL IDENTITY
Boy Erased, by Garrard Conley
In the Darkroom, by Susan Faludi
Trans: A Memoir, by Juliet Jacques
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