12th Honors - Summer Reading Choices   Browse the websites to select the two books that interest you most.  Each link provides a set of discussion questions that should guide your reading.  Document quotes and personal reactions in your dialectical journals as you read your selections. These dialectical journals (see the first link below) will be turned in the first week of school.  Additionally, you will participate in reading group discussions of the books you read. Advisory to students and parents: in an attempt to prepare these talented young people for their senior year and for college, we have chosen contemporary ADULT titles because they are more challenging while at the same time entertaining.  With that priority, we must advise you that as in most contemporary literature, some of these books have mature content.   Please research your choices carefully.   Dialectical Journal Use the format shown in the link below to respond to your book in a dialectical journal of at least 20 documented entries taken from throughout the entire book.   http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tdia.htm   Atwood - Alias Grace Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_A/alias_grace1.asp Atwood - Handmaid's Tale Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/handmaidstale_bgc.html Austen - Persuasion http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/persuasion1.asp Bradley - Mists of Avalon Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/mists_avalon1.asp Carson - Gifted Hands http://academic.pgcc.edu/bookbridge/ghquest.htm http://www.dom.com/about/education/strong/pdf/teachguide_carson_activities.pdf Coelho - The Fifth Mountain http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=1858&isbn13=9780060930134&displayType=readingGuide Coelho - Zahir Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=1858&isbn13=9780060825218&displayType=readingGuide Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/year_of_magical_thinking1.asp  Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides2/crime_and_punishment.asp Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/446-F05/sq-tess.htm     Garcia - Dreaming in Cuban  Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/rc/library/display.pperl?isbn=9780345381439&view=rg Gladwell - Blink http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=1521 http://www.litlovers.com/guide_blink.html Gladwell - The Tipping Point http://www.litlovers.com/guide_tipping_point.html Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.state.lib.de.us/Center_For_The_Book/DE_Reads/Discussion_Questions/Snow_Falling_on_Cedars.shtml http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/ http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/snow_falling_on_cedars.asp Hesse - Siddhartha http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/siddhartha.html Hosseini - Thousand Splendid Suns http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/thousand_splendid_suns.html http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/thousand_suns_q.htm http://www.mahalo.com/A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/prayer_for_owen_meany.asp http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/rc/library/display.pperl?isbn=9780345417978&view=rg Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_Y/year_living_biblically1.asp Johnson - The Ghost Map http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/ghost_map.html Kidd - Secret Life of Bees http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/secret_life_of_bees1.asp Kingsolver - The Bean Trees http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/bean_trees.asp http://www.ket.org/bookclub/books/2001_may/questions.htm Kingsolver - Pigs in Heaven (sequel to The Bean Trees) http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_P/pigs_in_heaven1.asp Lahiri - The Namesake Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/lahiri_namesake.shtml http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/namesake1.asp Larsen - Devil in the White City Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/devil_white_city1.asp McBride - The Color of Water http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/color_of_water.html   McCarthy - Cities of the Plain http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_C/cities_of_the_plain1.asp Mcewan - Saturday Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/saturday/mcewan_saturday_rgg.php Morrison - Beloved Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.litlovers.com/guide_beloved.html Oates - We Were the Mulvaneys http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/we_were_the_mulvaneys.html http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/works/novels/mulvaneys.html O'Brien - In the Lake of the Woods http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_L/lake_of_the_woods1.asp O'Brien - Going after Cacciato http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/goingaftercacciato_bgc.html Paton - Cry the Beloved Country http://www.litlovers.com/guide_cry_beloved_country.html Pausch - The Last Lecture http://www.thelastlecture.com/pdf/LastLecture_EdGuide.pdf http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/a-totally-unauthorized-reading-group-guide-to-%E2%80%98the-last-lecture%E2%80%99-by-randy-pausch/ Picoult - Harvesting the Heart http://www.jodipicoult.com/harvesting-the-heart.html Picoult - Change of Heart Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_C/change_of_heart1.asp Quindlen - One True Thing http://www.litlovers.com/guide_one_true_thing.html Schlosser - Fast Food Nation http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/fast_food_nation1.asp Tan - Hundred Secret Senses http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/APS/asianamerican/story2.html http://www.ywca.org/atf/cf/%7BAC4038C4-BCCA-4F24-B55C-F41063EDF6FE%7D/Discussion%20Points%20for%20The%20Hundred%20Secret%20Senses.doc Tyler - Back When We Were Grownups http://www.litlovers.com/guide_backwhenwe.html Tyler - Digging to America http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307263940&view=rg Walker - The Color Purple Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.litlovers.com/guide_colorpurple.html