Conversations in 20th Century Literature

2010-2011

High School Report on the Book 4th-8th

Party & Lesson June 7, 2010 Party & Lesson

1908 (published), The Man Who 1883 "The 21 Balloons" by

Was Thursday: A Nightmare, G. August 30, 2010 William Pene du Bois, 192
K. Chesterton, 192 pages pages

1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott

1895 (setting), The Time
Fitzgerald, 180 pages October 4, 2010
Machine, H.G. Wells, 72 pages

1933-35 (setting), To Kill A Late 1890s (setting), The Call

Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 288 November 1, 2010 of the Wild, Jack London, 262
pages pages

1930s (setting), The Invisible 1910, The Ransom of Red

December 6, 2010
Man, Ralph Ellison, 137 pages Chief”, by O. Henry

1937, The Cost of Discipleship, January 10, 2011 DragonSpell, by Donita K.

Deitrich Bonhoeffer, 380 pages Note: 2nd Monday Paul, 256 pages

1929 (setting), Swallows and

1937, The Hobbit, J.R.R.
February 7, 2011 Amazons, Arthur Ransome,
Tolkein, 304 pages
350 pages
1942, Screwtape Letters, C.S. 1933, "The Red Pony" is John
March 7, 2011
Lewis, 175 pages Steinbeck, 132 pages
1940s, WWII, Escape from
1946, Animal Farm, George
April 4, 2011 Warsaw, by Ian Serraillier, 218
Orwell, 144 pages
pages

1940s, Have Space Suit—Will

1952, The Old Man in the Sea,
May 2, 2011 Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein,
Earnest Hemmingway, 128 pages
256 pages

1953, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray 1960, A Cricket in Times

Bradbury, 192 pages June 6, 2011 Square: George Selden, 150
pages

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