Of Mice and Men

Required Reading and Multiculturalism

· Debate It. Take a position for or against this statement. All students should be required to read “25 recommended works to be read by the 8th grade” listed in Table 5.1, Chapter 5, Provide the titles of at least three works you would include in this or another recommended list. Provide reasons and examples to support your response.

· From the e-Activity, review the impact of multiculturalism on schools in Western Europe. Provide a rationale for either expanding or rejecting multiculturalism in your local school district. Provide the Website(s) you referenced in your discussion, using APA format.

· Table 5.1 Twenty-five Recommended Works to be Read by Eighth Grade

1. Maya Angelou, The Graduation

2. Pearl Buck, The Good Earth

3. Truman Capote, Miriam

4. James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

5. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

6. William Faulkner, Brer Tiger and the Big Wind

7. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

8. William Golding, Lord of the Flies

9. John Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

10. Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait

11. Rudyard Kipling, Letting in the Jungle

12. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

13. Jack London, The Call of the Wild

14. Herman Melville, Billy Budd

15. George Orwell, Animal Farm

16. Tomas Rivera, Zoo Island

17. William Saroyan, The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

18. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

19. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

20. William Still, The Underground Railroad

21. Ivan Turgenev, The Watch

22. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

23. John Updike, The Alligators

24. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

25. Elie Wiesel, Night