Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America by Francis Bok and Edward Tivnan
Take notes on each chapter, keep track of the characters and significant events that occur in this reading.  Notes will be collected by Social Studies teachers during the first week of school from first and second semester students.
Test to be given during the first week of school to both first and second semester students.

Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America by Francis Bok and Edward Tivnan and
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David O. Relin
For Escape from Slavery, take notes on each chapter, keep track of the characters and significant events that occur in this reading.  Notes will be collected by Social Studies teachers during the first week of school from first and second semester students.
For Three Cups of Tea, take notes on each chapter; keep track of the characters and significant events that occur and cultural norms of the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.  The notes you have taken will be collected by a Social Studies teacher during the first week of school from first and second semester students.  This is a graded assignment.

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Read the book. There will be a test during the first week of school for both first and second semester students.  In addition to the test, while you read you are to take notes and complete the guided read attached here.  Notes and the guided read will be collected and graded within the first week of school.

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Read the book and take hand-written notes on each chapter, major players, events, issues, etc.  There will be a test on the second day of class.

Early U.S. History

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Read the book. There will be a test during the first week of school for both first and second semester students.  In addition to the test, while you read you are to take notes and complete the guided read attached here.  Notes and the guided read will be collected and graded within the first week of school.  

The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
Read the book.  Make sure to read the introduction and pay special attention to the introduction.  There will be a test during the first week of school for both first and second semester students.  In addition to the test, find a current event article from a newspaper or magazine that illustrates an example of a totalitarian government and type a two paragraph reaction report.  Click here for detailed instructions when completing this assignment.

The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
Read the book.  Make sure to read the introduction and pay special attention to the introduction.  There will be a test during the first week of school for both first and second semester students.  In addition to the test, find a current event article from a newspaper or magazine that illustrates an example of a totalitarian government and type a two paragraph reaction report.  Click here for detailed instructions when completing this assignment.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Find three articles from the newspaper or news magazine that have problems similar to those faced by the Joad family in the 1930s, type a three paragraph essay on each comparing/contrasting the issue. In addition, a test will be given during the first week of class.