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 * __ APES “Your Choice” Reading Assignment: __**

Choose a book carefully. Read a page or two of your prospective book first, to see if you want to commit to it. Any book on the APES suggested reading list is automatically approved (providing no one else in the class is doing that book). If you want to read a book that is not on the list, you must have your selection approved by Mr. Frazier by sending an e-mail to robert.frazier@d300.org, with the title and author of the book you would like to read. // Before you begin, make sure that you know the difference between a novel and non-fiction. // ** How to write your Reading Journal //(and get a good grade):// ** There are three parts of the journal; you’ll keep the first two going as you read along in your book. The last part you will write after you have finished. As you read the book, write about //each// chapter or section, as follows:
 * In APES, you are required to read two environmental science books of your choice, one in each semester. ** Your reading journal for the first book is due on the second class after Thanksgiving vacation. The second book is due on the second class after Spring break.
 * Part 1 ** : **Reading Notes**
 * At the top of the first page of your journal, write your name and period, and then the title and author. (Do not use a separate page for this).
 * The reading notes can be hand written **//if//** your notes are legible, or typed
 * Date each journal entry as you read.
 * Make rough, quick notes as you read:
 * Write important facts
 * If you quote or refer to a passage, you must note the page # in parenthesis (#).
 * Write the words you don’t know. Look them up and write down definitions.
 * Write questions that come up for you as you read.
 * Write your comments or personal reactions as you read
 * Part 2: ** **Summary Section:** Referring to your rough reading notes, summarize the important content of //each// chapter or section and your reaction to it. This must be typed and well written. Use the new words that you noted in Part 1. At the top of the first page of your summary section, type your name and period, and then the title, author, //total number of pages of the book, the name of the publisher and the date of publication.// The **Summary Section** will have **two parts** for //each// section or chapter of the book.
 * ** Content Summary ** . For each chapter or section, refer to your reading notes, to summarize the content of the book. Be informative. If you quote or refer to a passage, note the page # in parenthesis (#).
 * ** Personal reactions. ** For each chapter or section, refer to your rough reading notes, and summarize your personal response. Include several thoughtful questions you formulated as a result of your reading.
 * Part 3: Overall Commentary ** : After you have finished the book, comment on the book as a whole, answering the following questions, and providing any additional thoughtful comments.
 * What did you specifically like about the book?
 * Constructively criticize the aspects of the book you don’t like.
 * What information or section affected you the most? Why?
 * Would you recommend this book to other APES students?


 * Desert Solitaire || Abbey, Edward ||
 * The Monkey Wrench Gang || Abbey, Edward ||
 * An Inconvenient Truth || Al Gore ||
 * A Sand County Almanac || Aldo Leopold ||
 * Endurance: Shackelton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition || Alexander, Caroline ||
 * A Fine Piece of Water || Anderson, Tom ||
 * Pilgrim at Tinker Creek || Ann Dillard ||
 * The Dinosaur Heresies || Bakker, Robert ||
 * Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life || Barbara Kingsolver ||
 * Of Wolves and Men || Barry Lopez ||
 * Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle || Bonnann and Kellert ||
 * Our Natural History - The Lessons of Lewis & Clark || Botkin, Daniel ||
 * Four Corners || Brown, Kenneth ||
 * Plan B 2.0:Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble || Brown, Lester ||
 * Field Guide to nature observation and Tracking || Brown, Tom ||
 * Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage || Heather Roberts ||
 * Endurance: Shackelton's legendary Antarctic Expedition || Caroline Alexander ||
 * Silent Spring || Carson, Rachel ||
 * A Green History of the World || Clive Pointing ||
 * How Many People Can the Earth Support? || Cohen, Joel E. ||
 * Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic || Cone, Marla ||
 * Changes in the Land || Cronon, William ||
 * The Song of the Dodo || David Quammen ||
 * Against the Tide - Battle for America's Beaches || Dean, Cornelia ||
 * Deep Ecology || Devall, Bill ||
 * Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed || Diamond, Jared ||
 * Guns, Germs and Steel || Diamond, Jared ||
 * Pilgrim at Tinker Creek || Dillard, Annie ||
 * Desert Solitaire || Edward Abbey ||
 * The Solace of Open Spaces || Ehrlich, Gretel ||
 * The Stork and the Plow || Ehrlich, Paul ||
 * The Population Explosion || Ehrlich, Paul & Anne ||
 * Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis || Eldridge, niles ||
 * [|__Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change__] || [|__Elizabeth Kolbert__] ||
 * Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash || [|__Elizabeth Royte__] ||
 * The Pleasure of Finding Things Out || Feynman, Richard ||
 * Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman? || Feynman, Richard ||
 * The Coming Plague || Garrett, Laurie ||
 * Earth in the Balance || Gore, Al ||
 * Atmosphere, Climate and Change || Graedel, Thomas & Crutzen, Paul ||
 * The Warning: The Accident at Three Mile Island || Gray, Mike & Rosen, Ira ||
 * Digging Dinosaurs || Horner, John ||
 * Turning the Tide || Horton, Tom ||
 * Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment || Houghton, J.T. et al. ||
 * Something New Under the Sun, || J. R. McNeill. ||
 * Collapse || Jared Diamond ||
 * Guns, Germs, and Steel || Jared Diamond ||
 * Savages || Joe Kane ||
 * Encounters with the Archdruid || John McPhee ||
 * Into the Wild || Jon Krakauer ||
 * A Civil Action || Jonathan Harr ||
 * The Perfect Storm || Junger, Sebastian ||
 * Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish || Knecht, G. Bruce ||
 * Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster || Krakauer, Jon ||
 * Cod || Kurlansky, Mark ||
 * Issac's Storm || Larson, Eric ||
 * The Sixth Extinction || Leakey, Richard ||
 * Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble || Lester Brown ||
 * Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, || Lester Brown. ||
 * Green Delusions || Lewis, Martin ||
 * Biogeochemistry of a Forest Ecosystem || Likens, Gene ||
 * Of Wolves and Men || Lopez, Barry ||
 * The Last Child in the Woods || Louv, Richard ||
 * Cadillac Desert || Marc Reisner ||
 * Tales of the Shaman's Apprentice || Mark Plotkin ||
 * The Cowboy Way || McCumber, David ||
 * The End of Nature || McKibben, Bill ||
 * Eaarth || McKibben, Bill ||
 * The Control of nature || McPhee, John ||
 * Basin & Range || McPhee, John ||
 * Encounters with the Archdruid || McPhee, John ||
 * The Limits to Growth, 2nd Edition || Meadows, Donella ||
 * The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals || Michael Pollan ||
 * Three Cups of Tea || Mortensen, Greg ||
 * Waterheads 3 - 10 Cases of Environmental Ethics || Nelson, Lisa & Dillingham, Catherine ||
 * The night of the grizzlies || Olsen, Jack ||
 * Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity || Ophuls, William ||
 * Meltdown || Patrick J. Michaels ||
 * Wolves of Isle Royale || Peterson, Rolk ||
 * Tracking the Vanishing Frogs || Phillips, Kathryn ||
 * Tales of the Shaman's Apprentice || Plotkins, Mark ||
 * A Green History of the World || Pointing, Clive ||
 * Last Oasis - Facing Water Scarcity || Postel, Sandra ||
 * Rivers of Life || Postel, Sandra & Richter, Brian ||
 * Prisoner's Dilemma || Poundstone, William ||
 * The Song of the Dodo || Quammen, David ||
 * Ishmael || Quinn, Daniel ||
 * Silent Spring || Rachel Carson ||
 * Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck || Raup, David ||
 * Replenish the Earth || Regebstein, Lewis ||
 * Cadillac Desert || Reisner, Marc ||
 * The Burning Season || Revkin, Andrew ||
 * Energy: From nature to Man || Reynolds, Wiliam ||
 * The Sixth Extinction || Richard Leakey ||
 * Last Refuge: Environmental Showdown in the American West || Robbins, Jim ||
 * The Cold and the Dark: The World After nuclear War || [|__Sagan, Carl, Erlich, Paul et.al.__] ||
 * Eco-Warriors || Scarce, Rick ||
 * A Fierce Green Fire || Shabecoff, Philip ||
 * Why People Believe Weird Things || Shermer, Michael ||
 * Whole World Disciline || Stewart Brand ||
 * The Meadowlands || Sullivan, Robert ||
 * Becoming Human || Tattersal, Ian ||
 * Walden || Thoreau, Henry ||
 * Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking || Tom Brown ||
 * Earth Under Siege || Turco, Richard ||
 * Our Ecological Footprint || Wackernagel and Rees ||
 * Unbowed: A Memoir || [|__Wangari Maathai__] ||
 * The World Without Us || Weisman, Alan ||
 * Degrees of Disaster: Prince William Sound || Wheelwright, Jeff ||
 * The Sand Dollar and the Slide Rule || Willis, Delta ||
 * On Human nature || Wilson, E. O. ||
 * Sociobiology || Wilson, E. O. ||
 * The Diversity of Life || Wilson, E. O. ||
 * The naturalist || Wilson, E. O. ||
 * Our Common Future || World Commission on Environment and Development ||
 * Three Scientists and Their Gods || Wright, Robert ||