Unit 5 Extra Credit Books Here are a few historical fiction books concerning this time period. If you choose to read one, write a summary of the book and turn it in with your Unit 5 ISN for extra credit. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West - "First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society." Any Western by Zane Grey, including Riders of the Purple Sage Answer as a Man by Taylor Caldwell, a story about Irish immigrants Gore Vidal's Empire Rags to Riches by Alice Vosper, concerning a poor girl whose life changes when her father strikes it rich in the 1880s As we study the time period known as the "Gilded Age", why not read something that the people of the late 1800s were reading? Here are some famous Gilded Age authors and titles of their works. While I have only read a few of these works, I know the story of many of them (you may as well). Alcott, Louisa May Little Women (1869) Henry, O The Gift Of The Magi (one of the best short stories ever) James, Henry The American (1877), The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Twain, Mark The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Tom Sawyer (1884), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1873) Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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