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=Independent Reading Requirements and Research Tools=

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= Books = GUYS Read (Recommendations for great books) Teens Read Too (More Book Recommendations) [|American Literature] (Read it online!) GoodReads (Join this community of readers, and keep your own reading bookshhelf, rate books, talk about books, write reviews.) Great Books: 101 titles recommended by College Board (creators of the SAT and AP exams) **Blogs** The Learning Network (from //The New York Times//--invites students to write and discuss articles/issues in the //Times//) Teen Fiction Cafe (several young adult authors contribute to this blog) Teen Reads (they have a recommended reading list--over 300 books) New York Times Student Opinion: Students 13 and older are invited to comment on questions about issues in the news. INKrethink (Peek inside the heads of nonfiction writers.) **Literary Writings** Official Blog of Read Magazine (submit your own writing and get writing pointers) Cicada (read and submit poetry) = Newspapers & Magazines & News Sources = The New Yorker L.A. Times [|New York Times] [|Time Magazine] (check out their Top 100 People) [|Newsweek] The New Yorker [|College Times] CNN Student News [|Washington Post] [|The Progressive] [|US News & World Report]

Boys Life (Boy Scouts of America) National Wildlife Sports Illustrated Seventeen =**Opinions, Editorials, Debates** = Opposing Views ProCon.org //The New York Times// Learning Network The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition Current Events blog of Weekly Reader [|The Economist]

= Interesting Sites = ACT Question of the Day =**Great Visuals** = National Geographic Lens: //The New York Times// photo blog Life L.A. Times Photography //The Wall Street Journal// Photo Blog =**Essays & Speeches** = =**Short Stories** = **Classics & Other Good Reads (available free online)** **Books We'll Read Together This Year** The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald //The Crucible// by Arthur Miller //Night// by Elie Wiesel The Awakening by Kate Chopin (AP English only)
 * //Letters from Birmingham Jail// (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
 * //How It Feels to Be Colored Me// (Zora Neale Hurston)
 * //The Gettysburg Address// (Abraham Lincoln)
 * //The Declaration of Independence// (Thomas Jefferson)
 * //Shooting an Elephant// (George Orwell)
 * //The Allegory of the Cave// (Plato)
 * //A Modest Proposal// (Jonathan Swift)
 * A list of tons of stories
 * //The Fall of the House of Usher//
 * //The Lottery//
 * //The Open Window//
 * //The Birthmark//
 * //The Black Cat//
 * //The £1,000,000 Bank Note//
 * //The Devil and Tom Walker//
 * //The Minister's Black Veil//
 * //The Story of an Hour//
 * The Birthmark
 * The Story of an Hour
 * //Daisy Miller//
 * //The Scarlet Letter//
 * //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//
 * //Walden Pond//
 * //Ethan Frome//
 * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 * //A Room with a View//
 * //Alice in Wonderland//
 * //Animal Farm//
 * The Catcher and the Rye
 * //Of Mice and Men//
 * //My Antonia//
 * //Brave New World//
 * Journey to the Centre of the Earth
 * Around the World in Eighty Days
 * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * //Frankenstein//
 * Dracula
 * //Gulliver's Travels//
 * //Jane Eyre//
 * Emma
 * //Madame Bovary//
 * Heart of Darkness
 * //O Pioneers!//
 * //The Age of Innocence//
 * //The Count of Monte Cristo//
 * //The Metamorphosis//
 * //The Picture of Dorian Gray//
 * The Secret Garden
 * //The Time Machine//
 * //The Prince//
 * //Wuthering Heights//
 * //The Prince//
 * //King Lear//
 * //Taming of the Shrew//
 * //Merchant of Venice//
 * Shanghai Girls
 * The Federalist Papers
 * The Importance of Being Earnest