HN English 10 - Creation & Flood Story Review + Independent Reading Selection

You will have a double-weighted quiz on Tuesday on the four creation and flood stories we have read over the past week: the Genesis stories (creation & flood), the Popol Vuh, the Ovid packet, and the Rig Veda creation poem.  This weekend, since you have no formal homework, you should review characters, archetypes, and the answers to those focus questions for each story in order to prepare you for the quiz. 

On Tuesday, you also should have book in hand OR proof of book in hand for your independent reading assignment/project.  Students may choose between the following five novels:

1. The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
2. Crime & Punishement by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
3. The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged, but not adapted) by Alexandre Dumas*
4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe*

Starred novels are available in the school library library for checkout.  The other two should be available at local used bookstores, Amazon, or local libraries. 

Books need to be finished by Monday, April 16 (the Monday after Spring Break).  A project will be assigned next week to go along with the novel.  Other coursework will go on simultaneously, so plan ahead.