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Book Reflection Paper due 3/14 at 9:00 p. submitted
From the reading list, you will choose a book about someone or some group whose background and life are significantly different from yours. It is expected that you will choose a book you have not already read. Your reflection will address the following:
- Introduction
- Describe and discuss the major themes in the book in relation to the writer/characters’ life experiences, formative influences, and their development of social identity. What were critical social, cultural, or political events that shaped the lives of the writer/character? What coping mechanisms were employed?
- What are the major differences between your life/worldview and that of the writer/character in the book?
- What insights or observations did you derive that will influence your motivation toward social action on behalf of an oppressed group?
- Conclusion
Page Length 3-4 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 point font, with proper citations (APA or MLA)
The assignment will be graded according to the following criteria:
- Identification of major themes, formative influences, and development of social identity (20%)
- Discussion of coping mechanisms (20%)
- Discussion of differences between your life and that of the writer (20%)
- Reflection on your own insights/observations (20%)
- Evidence of critical thinking (10%)
- Organization, grammar, formal writing, citations (10%)
Book Reflection Options
- Beah, Ishmael A Long Way Gone
- Bono, Chaz Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be
- Boo, Katherine Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Brown, Cupcake A Piece of Cake
- Bragg, Rick Over But the Shoutin’
- Chai, May-lee Hapa Girl: A Memoir
- Delman, Carmit Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures-A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl
- DeParle, Jason American Dream
- Dunn, Stormie Silenced No More: The Courage of a Solider – Life After Military Sexual Trauma
- Erlbaum, Janice Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
- Fadiman, Anne The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- Fowler, Connie May When Katie Wakes: A Memoir
- Grande, Reyna The Distance Between Us
- Hall, Shyima Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
- Halo, Thea Not Even My Name: A True Story
- Henry, Neil Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family
- Hijuelos, Oscar Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir
- hooks, bell Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
- Jones, Edward P. The Known World
- Kim, Eunsun & Falletti, Sebastien A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
- Kotlowitz, Alex There Are No Children Here
- Lim, Shirley Geok-lin Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of the Homelands
- Moody, Ann Coming of Age in Mississippi
- Moore, Wes The Other Wes Moore
- Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
- Nguyen, Kien The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
- O’Brien, John At Home in the Heart of Appalachia
- Otsuka, Julie When the Emperor Was Divine
- Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Wahls, Zach My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
- Walker, Rebecca Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
- Williams, Gregory Howard Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
- Yousafzai, Malala I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban
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