Reading Assignment

BOOK ASSIGNMENT

Choose and read one of the books listed or one of your own choice (it must be approved by Mrs. Hayashi).

Journal as you go - As you're reading the book, keep two-sided entries in your journal. The left side should have quotes from the book and page numbers. The right side should have your questions, thoughts, observations, revelations, etc.

In addition, complete any two of the assignments below:

1. Discuss in depth the relevance of the title.
2. Write a letter to the author.
3. Use two other sources to research and write a report on an issue from the book.
4. Write and produce a one minute radio or television PSA on this issue
5. Q & A - Pretend you're interviewing a person from the book. Write your interview in question and answer format.
6. Compare and contrast the book with another you have read on a similar topic.
7. Discuss cause and effect relationships you found in the book.
8. Write an editorial based on a controversial issue in the book.
9. Create a glossary of unfamiliar words and phrases.
10. Choose your favorite passage from the book. Copy it down and discuss what you found appealing about it.
11. Top 10 List - list ten things you learned from this book.
12. You're the reporter. Write a front page news story or create a tv or radio report live from the scene.

Your work will be posted on the walls outside the classroom.

Social Justice (General)

• Beyond cynicism: towards ethics in leadership
• Moral courage
• Why social justice matters

The Law and Aboriginal Rights

• Raven's children: aboriginal youth health in BC
• Imaginary Indian: the image of the Indian in Canadian culture
• Where the pavement ends
• A Long and terrible shadow: White values and native rights in the Americas since 1492
• The Unjust Society
• The Marshall decision and native rights
• Justice for Canada's Aboriginal peoples
• Indians of North America - Tsawout Band - Land claims
• This land is our land: the Mohawk revolt at Oka
• Nisga'a: People of the mighty river
• Nisga'a Final Agreement
• Inuit and their land
• Blood of the land: The Government and corporate war against First Nations
• What's the deal with treaties?
• People of the pines: The Warriors and the legacy of Oka
• Enough is enough: aboriginal women speak out
• Treaty talks in British Columbia
• Native people's access to justice
• Aboriginal issues today: a legal and business guide
• Legacy: Indian Treaty Relationships
• Native law
• Spirit dance at Meziadin: Joseph Gosnell and the Nisga'a Treaty
• Death feast in Dimlahamid

Racism

• Voyage of the Komagata Maru
• Racism
• Racism
• Racism in Canada
• Racial profiling in Canada
• Neo-Nazis: A growing threat
• Better day coming: Blacks and equality, 1890-2000
• Civil rights: the struggle for black equality
• Redress: inside the Japanese Canadians call for justice
• End of apartheid in South Africa
• Colour-coded : a legal history of racism in Canada, 1900-1950
• Forces which shaped them
• Black like me

Poverty

• In the realm of hungry ghosts
• Street stories: 100 years of homelessness in Vancouver
• Street people speak
• Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor 
• War at home: an intimate portrait of Canada's poor
• On the streets
• Hope in the shadows
• Race against time
• The Blue sweater
• The end of poverty
• Dying for a home
• Pay the rent or feed the kids
• All our sisters
• No-nonsense guide to world poverty
• The Life you can save
• Out of poverty: and into something more comfortable
• The Place I call home: voices and faces of homeless teens
• Homelessness
• Cesar Chavez: labor leader
• Motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey
• Angela's ashes: a memoir of a childhood

LGBTQ Issues

• Sexual spectrum: exploring human diversity
• Free your mind
• Two teenagers in 20
• In your face
• Revolutionary voices
• Gender outlaw: on men, women, and the rest of us
• Now that I'm out, what do I do?
• Outing yourself
• Becoming two-spirit
• Hear me out
• GLBTQ*
• Is it a choice?
• Civil wars: the battle for gay marriage
• Just a Mom
• Love makes a family
• 50 ways to support lesbian and gay equality
• She's not there: a life in two genders

Women and Gender Issues

• Stolen innocence
• Under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith
• Gender outlaw: on men, women, and the rest of us
• My gender workbook
• Women in the Arab world
• I am woman
• Suffragettes and votes for women
• Complete idiot's guide to women's history
• Women in the world of India
• The Montreal massacre
• On the streets
• Enough is enough: aboriginal women speak out
• All our sisters
• Unruly women: the politics of confinement and resistance
• My forbidden face: growing up under the Taliban
• As nature made him
• Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Canadian women's issues: Volume 1 - Strong voices

Genocide

• Fear in Chile: lives under Pinochet
• From peacekeeping to peacemaking: Canada's response to the Yugoslav Crisis
• The Lion, the fox & the eagle
• We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
• Zlata's diary
• Night
• Surviving Hitler: a boy in the Nazi death camps
• Rescuers: portraits of moral courage in the Holocaust
• Iron furnace: a Holocaust survivor's story
• Man's search for meaning
• Breakup of Yugoslavia
• Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the story of Canada's secret war
• Me against my brother: at war in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda
• Devil came on horseback: bearing witness to the genocide in Darfur
• Not on our watch: The Mission to end genocide in Darfur and beyond
• Unscathed: escape from Sierra Leone
• Life after violence: a people's story of Burundi
• Shake hands with the devil

Globalization

• Bitter chocolate
• Greed Inc. : why corporations rule our world and how we let it happen
• Globalization: the human consequences
• Blockbusters and trade wars : popular culture in a globalized world
• Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
• Disposable people: new slavery in the global economy
• What would Gandhi do?
• Capitalism in crisis: globalization and world politics today
• Reefer madness: sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market
• Modern slavery and the global economy
• Fences and windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate
• George Soros on globalization
• No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies
• Global showdown: how the new activists are fighting global corporate rule

Africa

• Cry the beloved country
• The end of apartheid in South Africa
• Wildlife poaching
• Power of one
• Crossing the line
• John Newton and the slave trade
• Eating apes
• Race against time: Searching for hope in AIDS ravaged Africa
• White necklace
• Tandia
• The betrayal of Africa
• My Maasai life
• Black death: AIDS in Africa
• Poisonwood Bible
• Bloodsong and other stories of South Africa
• Rivers of blood, rivers of gold: Europe's conquest of indigenous peoples
• 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
• Me against my brother
• Dead aid
• Blue Sweater
• The invisible cure
• Chanda's secrets
• Taking away the distance

Other Social Justice Topics

• 67 ways to save the animals (animal rights)
• Ethics into action : Henry Spira and the animal rights movement (animal rights)
• When elephants fight (child soldiers)
• A real nice but (people with disabilities)
• Ending slavery (slavery)
• Understanding global slavery: a reader (slavery)
• Bitter chocolate (slavery)
• Disposable people: new slavery in the global economy (slavery)
• Keepers of the flame (Amnesty International)
• Hope & despair: my struggle to free my husband, Maher Arar (human rights)
• Future: tense : the coming world order (human rights)
• Reefer madness: sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market
• Child labor today (child labour)
• Modern slavery and the global economy
• Listen to us: the world's working children (child labour)
• Animal underworld: inside America's black market for rare and exotic species
• Eating apes
• Dead aid (international aid)
• Race against time: searching for hope in AIDS-ravaged Africa (international aid)
• Small, good thing: stories of children with HIV and those who care for them
• The Invisible cure: Why we are losing the fight against AIDS in Africa
• 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
• Our stories, our songs (AIDS)
• Until you are dead: Steven Truscott's long ride into history (Capital punishment)
• Capital punishment
• Within these walls (capital punishment)
• Non-nonsense guide to fair trade
• Brewing justice: fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival
• The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi
• Eyes which have seen too much: refugee children in Azerbaijan
• Long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier

How to Take Action

• Free the children
• The world needs your kids
• The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference
• 500 ways to change the world
• Be the difference: a beginner's guide to changing the world
• The Troublemaker's teaparty: A Manual for effective citizen action
• 50 ways to support lesbian and gay equality
• What Would Gandhi Do?
• Ethical shopping: Where to shop, what to buy and what to do to make a difference
• Notes from Canada's young activists
• Another day in paradise
• Everyday activist
• Raise your voice, lend a hand, change the world
• It's our world, too!
• Global showdown: how the new activists are fighting global corporate rule
• Cesar Chavez: labor leader
• Terry Fox: His story
• Gandhi: the young protester who founded a nation
• Rick Hansen: man in motion
• Me to we: turning self-help on it's head
• At the border called hope: where refugees are neighbours
• Three cups of tea
• How to live your dream of volunteering overseas