B. The "Other Book": One Additional Reading Project - and Written Thought Paper

• Choose 1 from the following five.  No other books are accepted:
  We will help you choose 1 book from the following 5. No other books are accepted:
  • Brooks, Geraldine: Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (Paperback, Viking, 2002) ISBN: 067091021X
  • Defoe, Daniel: A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback, 1722, Random House Reprint, 2001) ISBN: 0375757899
  • Danziger, Danny:  The Year 1000:  What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (Paperback, Back Bay Books, 2000) ) ISBN: 0316511579
  • Gies, Joseph and Frances Gies:  Life in a Medieval Citiy (Paperback, Perennial, 1981) ISBN: 0060908807
  • Pernoud, Regine:  Those Terrible Middle Ages:  Debunking the Myths (Paperback, Ignatius, 2000) ISBN: 089870811

"OTHER BOOK" RESPONSE

ALERT: In your two-page single-spaced analysis, you must address the followng questions carefully.

NAME OF STUDENT:

Name of Book or Source and Full Publishing Reference:  That means
Brown, John:  The Plague (Penguin Books, 1901)

I. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS HISTORICAL AREA AND THIS BOOK?

II. What 4 themes do you see coming out of the book? Either stated or surmissed by you. Identify them and expand on them with YOUR OWN THINKING.
III.  Now, pick any situation or condition that impacted you in the book, put yourself there and in it at that time, and explain how you would have felt, what you would have done.
IV.  Finally, what 4 major or important (to you) pictures, ideas, conclusions remain in your mind after reading it and thinking? You must generalize. Do not talk about how good or bad the book was.  Do not write a book review.