［家长必看］5-8年级必读书单

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［5-8年级必读书单］

1. Hatchet – Gary Paulsen

Genre – adventure/ fiction

Synopsis – In this novel, thirteen-year-old Brian is flying on a bush plane when the pilot suddenly has a heart attack and dies. Brian manages to keep the plane level until it crashes into a lake. Brian survives the crash, but that is just the beginning. Brian must find a way to survive the wilds of the Canadian forest if he ever hopes to be rescued. Hatchet is an adventure story that will take its character from a common city boy to a survivalist in a manner of days.

2. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

Genre – adventure/ fiction

Synopsis – The novel revolves around the youthful adventures of the story’s school boy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife.

3. A Long Walk to Water – Park, Linda Sue

Genre – historical fiction/ true story

Synopsis: A Long Walk toWater, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy inSudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, becomes one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay.

4. A Wrinkle in Time – L’Engle, Madeline

Genre – science fiction/ fantasy

Synopsis: Meg and Charles Wallace and Calvin O’Keefe search for Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while trying to solve the tesseract (wrinkle in time)problem. The story combines theology , fantasy, and science in a story of time and space travel and the power of good over evil. The value of a close, loving family is emphasized.

5. Baseball in April – Soto, Gary

Genre – autobiography/ memoir

Synopsis—Eleven short stories portray the lives of Mexican American children in everyday situations – solving problems, dealing with friendships and disappointments, and being part of a family.

6. Children of the Dust Bowl – Stanley, Jerry

Genre – narrative non-fiction

Synopsis – The plight of Depression migrant workers, the prejudice against these new comers, their forced existence in the federal labor camp at Arvin,California, and the remarkable school superintendent who provided opportunities for the children and changed their lives. Primary source photographs document this uplifting story of an otherwise bleak chapter in California’s history.

7. Crash– Spinelli, Jerry

Genre – fiction

Synopsis – Crash is an arrogant, athletic seventh grader with a jock mentality and a knack for putdowns. Things change when Crash’s grandfather comes to live with his family and suffers a severe stroke.

8. Feathers – Woodson, Jacqueline

Genre – historical fiction

Synopsis – Set in 1971, this story centers on Frannie, who is in sixth grade in a mostly black classroom. It is told from Frannie’s viewpoint and filled with memorable characters:Frannie’s teacher introduces her students to Emily Dickinson and her poem,“Hope is the Thing with Feathers.” An excellent choice for starting a discussion about disabilities, religion, appearances, and bullying.

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1. ToKill a Mockingbird－HarperLee

Genre—coming-of-age story

Synopsis:In To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses memorable characters to explore civil rights and racism in the segregated Southern United States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of Scout Finch, you learn about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of rape; and about Boo Radley,a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed.

2. Of Mice and Men—John Steinbeck

Genre—fiction, tragedy

Synopsis: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a parable about what it means to be human. Steinbeck's story of George and Lennie's ambition of owning their own ranch, and the obstacles that stand in the way of that ambition, reveal the nature of dreams, dignity,loneliness, and sacrifice. Ultimately, Lennie, the mentally handicapped giant who makes George's dream of owning his own ranch worthwhile, ironically becomes the greatest obstacle to achieving that dream.


3. Night—Elie Wiesel

Genre—literary memoir,World War II, autobiography

Synopsis: François Mauriac, Nobel-prize winning French novelist and biographer of General Charles de Gaulle, encouraged Wiesel to speak for the survivors of the Holocaust. Mauriac advised Wiesel on the publication of Night, a humanistic documentary. The most personal branch of literature, autobiography consists of diaries, journals, letters, and memoirs. As narratives, autobiographies introduce the reader to intimate thoughts and responses of a single point of view at a precise moment in time.

4. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Genre—fiction

Synopsis: The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the maturation of Amir, a male from Afghanistan who needs to find his way in the world as he realizes that his own belief system is not that of his dominant culture. Set in Afghanistan and the United States, The Kite Runner is a bildungsroman that illustrates the similarities as well as the differences between the two countries and the two vastly different cultures. It is the story of both fathers and sons and friends and brothers, and it is a novel about right and wrong and the nature of evil. Published in 2003 to great critical and popular acclaim, The Kite Runner is considered a contemporary classic.

5. The Things They Carried—Tim O’Brien

Genre—war memoir,autobiography

Synopsis: The Things They Carried is a powerful meditation on the experiences of foot soldiers in Vietnam and after the war.

6. The Great Gatsby—F.Scott Fitzgerald

Genre—Jazz Age novel

Synopsis: F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel of triumph and tragedy, noted for the remarkable way Fitzgerald captured a cross-section of American society.

7. Death of aSalesman—Arthur Miller

Genre—tragedy

Synopsis: Arthur Miller's play Death of aSalesman addresses loss of identity and a man's inability to accept change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, confrontations,and arguments, all of which make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman's life.

8. MacBeth—WilliamShakespeare

Genre—tragedy, play

Synopsis: Macbeth is a play of contradiction and ambition. Macbeth is a tragedy of William Shakespeare. It takes place in medieval Scotland and retraces in a very fictionalized way the reign of Macbeth, taking a close inspiration from the narrative that Raphael Holinshed in his Chronicles,published in 1587.

9. Into the Wild—Jon Krakauer

Genre—Biography, true travel story

Synopsis: Into the Wild was published to great success,spending more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list.The book was also made into a movie in 2007. One of the questions Krakauer tried to answer in his research was what exactly had killed Chris McCandless.

10. 1984—GeorgeOrwell

Genre—science fiction

Synopsis: In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place where theParty scrutinizes human actions with ever-watchful Big Brother. Defying a ban on individuality, Winston dares to express his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with Julia. These criminal deeds bring Winston into the eye of the opposition, who then must reform the nonconformist.

11. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer—James L. Swanson

Genre—nonfiction

Synopsis: Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests ofVirginia.

12. The Outsiders—S.E.Hinton

Genre—young adult fiction

Synopsis: The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider.

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美国历史重要节点

1492-1845 ［Columbian Exchange］

• 始于哥伦布登上新大陆
  
  
• 白种人与native Americans进行文化，语言，习俗等交换交流
  
  
• 同时给native Americans 带来了传染病，导致土著人大量死亡

1607 ［Jamestown Colony]

• 位于Virginia州
  
  
• 英国在美国的第一个殖民地
  
  
• 种植烟草出口英国
  

1763-1783 [The American Revolution]

• 起初殖民地美国只是表示反抗英国高额征税
  
  
• 著名以少胜多战争
  
  
• 民族英雄华盛顿将军深得人心
  
  
• 取胜三个原因：华盛顿将军鼓舞士气／法国的经济支持／美国民兵为个人自由而战
  

1783-1792［Constitutional Convention］

• 史称为美国“立宪阶段”
  
  
• 开国先贤在费城集会确立了独立宣言，宪法，权利法案
  

1787-1800［The Federalists]

• 确立联邦政府，在开国文献中明确联邦和各州政府的权责
  
  
• 届时总统为George Washington和John Adams
  

1787-1882 [Early American Immigration]

• 从殖民时期到1882年，美国移民无任何限制
  
  
• 间或出现地方保护主义（如：担心德国移民会削弱英语使用和政府统治；大量爱尔兰移民会混淆英国纯正Anglo-Saxon血统；中国去美国西部修铁路劳工血统与文化与当地白人格格不入。
  
  
• 大部分移民来自于德国，爱尔兰和中国
  

1791-1806 [Louisiana Purchase]

• 加倍了美国领土面积
  
  
• 时任总统Jefferson
  
  
• 法国人至今的痛
  

1812-1815 [War of 1812]

• 美国对英国宣战（因为英国肆意搜查美国商船）
  
  
• 美国国歌“星条旗永不落”产生
  
  
• 产生日后最伟大美国总统之一Theodore Roosevelt
  

1819-1848 [Mexican-American War]

• 美国历史上第一个有争议的战争（之后有越战，伊拉克战争等），是美国西部大开发争夺德州领土和资源的重要一步棋
  
  
• 美国鼓动一支墨西哥军队反政府起义
  
  
• 美国战胜后签订割地条约，墨西哥把德州拱手让人
  

1835-1982 [Women’s Movements]

• 宪法第19条修正案赋予女性选举权
  
  
• 二战后女性运动再次兴起，虽未通过平权法案，但女性就业和教育等权利受到保护
  

1846-1855 [California Gold Rush]

• 使美国人对一夜暴富充满渴望
  
  
• 奠定了［美国梦］基础
  

1860-1865 [The Civil War]

• 是美国史上最血腥，死亡人数最多战争
  
  
• 至今唯一完全在美国领土作战的战争
  
  
• 真正原因并非是消除南方奴隶制度，而是消除各州间进出口税差异
  

1862-1916 [The West ]

• 联邦政府出台系列政策帮助人们西迁

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美国历史重要节点

1869-2009 [Labor Unions]

• 大部分美国人对工会态度又爱又恨
  
  
• 至今工会在汽车业，教育，印刷媒体及政治届仍很普遍
  

1893-1913 [The Spanish-American War]

• 届时美国经济发展缓慢，所以军工复合体势力提出一定要有战争（美国历来在战争中获利）
  
  
• 战场在古巴
  
  
• 古巴西班牙先开战，美国后加入，战争持续4个月
  

1914-1919 [World War I]

• 美国体现了军事，财务及工业实力，奠定了世界领跑者地位。威尔逊总统宣战
  
  
• Burberry开始为英国士兵制作防雨的trench coat
  
  
• 战后战败国奥斯曼帝国被分裂为巴勒斯坦和伊拉克
  

1929-1941 [The Great Depression]

• 自由市场与联邦政府都无法调节经济
  
  
• Franklin Roosevelt临危受命
  
  
• ［罗斯福新政］旨在通过联邦政府干预市场发展，就业情况来扭转经济。该政策被指有共产主义色彩。该政策一致未被美国三权联邦政府正式通过
  

1939-1945 [World War II]

• 纳粹对犹太人种族迫害
  
  
• 美国对日本使用核武器
  
  
• 正式确立美国在世界事务中领头地位，所以美国人称之“the good war”
  
  
• 军工厂推动美国战时经济，摆脱大萧条
  
  
• 总统罗斯福坚信美国总能发战争财，且美国民众气愤于德国核潜艇大战
  

1944-1989 [Cold War]

• 美国与苏联在贸易竞争，军备竞赛，核武器研发，外太空探险等方面近50年
  
  
• 美苏各自支持不同国家开战
  
  
• 冷战原因主要是美苏两国意识形态截然不同；另外二战后美国内部共产党躁动起来要颠覆美国民主，所以美国必须通过冷战来压制
  

1950-1953 [The Korean War]

• 战争始于红色北朝鲜攻打反共南韩，美国支持南韩
  
  
• 该战争被美国人成为“the forgotten war”
  

1954-1978 [Civil Rights Movement]

• 始于著名的Rosa Parks拒绝在公交车上给白人让座
  
  
• 通过了民权法案Civil Rights Act，废除种族隔离制度，要求不同种族有获得同样的就业机会
  
  
• 通过选举权法案
  

1960-1975 [The Vietnam War]

• 在美国号称“the longest war”（持续15年），最后以美国撤兵告终，越南南方归顺于北方
  
  
• 5任美国总统无法结束该战争
  
  
• 是美国历史上最耻辱的惨败
  

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好资源，谢了。