BNW Assignment Over Vacation

1. Read through chapter 6 (stop at chapter 7).
2. Dialectical Journals: For each of the following prompts, find three to five passages to support your ideas.

• Explain and analyze the significance of consumerism in this culture. Cite any contemporary parallels in our society.

• Explain how morality and values are instilled and controlled in this population. Cite any contemporary parallels in our society.

Possibilities for Blog Reading

INDEPENDENT READING

·     THE COMPOUND-S.A. BODEN

Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they’ve become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. No amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, only his father and mother, doing the same thing day after day after day. As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary—and their sanity—Eli can’t help but wonder if he’d rather take his chances outside. Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. But are they safe—really?

·     THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX-MARY E. PEARSON

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

·     DOUBLE HELIX-NANCY WERLIN

Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

·     HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY-SUZANNE COLLINS

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

·     THE DEAD AND GONE-SUSAN BETH PFEFFER

After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

·     UNWIND-NEAL SHUSTERMAN

Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.

·     THE ROAD-CORMAC MCCARTHY

Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.

·     ACROSS THE UNIVERSE-BETH REVIS

Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet three hundred years in the future, is unplugged fifty years too early and finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.

·     GENESIS ALPHA-RUNE MICHAELS

When thirteen-year-old josh's beloved older brother, max, is arrested for murder, the victim's sister leads josh to evidence of max's guilt--and her own--hidden in their favorite online role-playing game and josh, who was conceived to save max's life years earlier, must consider whether he shares that guilt.

·     LEVIATHAN-SCOTT WESTERFIELD

In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

·     DECLARATION-GEMMA O’MALLEY

In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "surplus" training to become a house servant, has her world view challenged when she meets peter and discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

·     ASHES, ASHES-JO TREGGIARI

In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.

·     CANDOR-PAM BACHORZ

For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.

·     CARBON DIARIES, 2017-SACI LLOYD

In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

·     THE CELL-STEPHEN KING

Maine artist Clayton Riddell, elated after closing the deal for his first comic book, comes down to earth quickly when a brain-zapping energy burst--the pulse--strikes, reducing cell phone users to zombie-like creatures, and leaving Clayton desperate to find a way home from Boston to see if his wife and son have survived.

·     CHERRY HEAVEN-L.J. ALDINGTON

Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be.

·     UGLIES-SCOTT WESTERFIELD

Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

·     SO YESTERDAY-SCOTT WESTERFIELD

Hunter Braque, a New York city teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool, " combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

·     THE GAME-MON HUGHES

It’s the future, and most jobs are done by machines. Now that school is over, Lisse and her friends are consigned to a bleak neighborhood for the permanently unemployed. Then they receive an invitation to the Game—which transports them to a paradise. Is it a dream, or a computer simulation? Each time they play the Game, the new world seems more and more real.

·     GIRL PARTS-JOHN M. CUSICK

The lives of Charlie, wealthy and popular but still lonely, and Charlie, a soulful outsider, intersect when Rose, the female Companion bot Charlie's parents buy to treat his dissociative disorder, forms a bond with David.

·     HOST-STEPHANIE MEYER

Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and wanderer can coexist.

·     HOUSE OF THE SCORPION-NANCY FARMER

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of el Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

·     INFERIOR-PEADER O’GUILIN

In a brutal world where hunting and cannibalism are necessary for survival, something is going terribly wrong as even the globes on the roof of the world are fighting, but one young man, influenced by a beautiful and mysterious stranger, begins to envision new possibilities.

·     MONSTER OF MEN-PATRICK NESS

As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.

·     NEVER LET ME GO-KAZUO ISHIGURO

Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again.

·     POD-STEPHEN WALLENFELS

As alien spacecraft fill the sky and zap up any human being who dares to go outside, fifteen-year-old Josh and twelve-year-old Megs, living in different cities, describe what could be their last days on Earth.

·     PREY-MICHAEL CRICHTON

A cloud of Nanoparticles programmed as a predator and capable of self-reproduction escapes from a Nevada laboratory and makes the human population its target.

·     SHIP BREAKER-PAOLO BACIGALUPI

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

·     SKINNED-ROBIN WASSERMAN

Lia Kahn's family pays for the most advanced medical technology to save her when her body is devastated in a horrible accident, but when the operations are complete, Lia remains alive but her body does not.

·     SUPERNATURALIST-EOIN COLFER

In futuristic satellite city, fourteen-year-old Cosmo hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue parasites that are invisible to most humans.

·     THINNER THAN THOU-KIT REED

Rev. Earl's luxury spa, Sylphania, is the rage for those with severe eating disorders until Jeremy Devlin enters and discovers the dark secrets at the core of earl's empire.

·     WEBMAGE-KELLY MCCOULLOUGH

The fates of ancient Greece have gone digital in the twenty-first century, ruling human destiny through a server known as the fate core, but when Atropos decides to code a spell to eliminate free will, her modern-day nephew Ravirn, a hacker-Extraordinaire, pulls out all his tricks to stop her.

·     LITTLE BROTHER-COREY DOCTOROW

Interrogated for days by the department of homeland security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.