Book List for a 10th grade Unit: Man vs. Nature / Man vs. Self The class unit novels include: Lord of the Flies By William Golding
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Man vs. Nature / Man vs. Self The class unit novels include: 1. Lord of the Flies By William Golding Shipwrecked English schoolboys set up their own civilization but savagery finally emerges. This book offers great discussions about peer pressure, survival, society, character development, and how choices and decisions affect each person. Word Count: 59,900 Reading Level: 5 Interest Level: 9+ Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5 / points: 9.0 / quiz: 744 / grade: Upper Grades Lexile: 770 2. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors By Piers Paul Read This is the story of the unimaginable mental, physical, and moral struggle by airplane crash survivors to stay alive during a ten-week ordeal in the Cordillera De Los Andes of South America in 1972. Forty 40 team members, staff, family, and friends of a Uruguayan rugby team along with 5 crew members en route to Chile, smashes into a mountain in Argentina killing dozens aboard, however nearly two-dozen manage to survive the impact. On a patched up radio receiver they find out that the search for the plane has been called off, so the crash victims are forced to rely on their own initiative to endure the harsh conditions at such a high altitude. Several more die of injuries suffered in the crash, inadequate medical supplies, a subsequent avalanche, and prolonged exposure before sixteen fortunate individuals are rescued. This story gives students a look into the issues of survival against nature and in dealing with the human condition when put under severe stress and crisis.
Additional Books and Materials: Easier reading options:
By Tim Bowler (2008) 
Fifteen-year-old Dusty gets a mysterious call from a boy who says he is going to kill himself, and while he claims to have called her randomly, he seems to know everything about her. He seems to be not of this world and stays very hidden because there are many people who want to see him dead. She is determined to save him. This book would appeal as an easy read while being an intense thriller. Tim Bowler is an award winning author and does not disappoint. Word Count: 86,026 Reading Level: 3.8 Interest Level: 9-12 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.8 / points: 12.0 / quiz: 122285 / grade: Upper Grades Reading Counts!: reading level:2.7 / points:21.0 Lexile: 520L 3. Hunger Games (2008) By Suzanne Collins 
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition that pits young people against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's is challenged, when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Kids are forced to fight each other to the death in a show of the survival of the fittest. This book offers a good read to medium readers and reflects the issues of survival, and the tyranny of society and the need for rules to govern civil behaviors. Word Count: 99,750 Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: 7-12 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.3 / points: 15.0 / quiz: 123740 / grade: Middle Grades Reading Counts!: reading level:4.7 / points:23.0 Lexile: 810L 4. Shattering Glass By Gail Giles (2002) 
5. Wringer
6. The Brimstone Journals By Ron Koertge 
This book offers students a different look at the issues of pressures facing teens in society. The poems are accessible and relatable and could serve as examples for a poetry assessment within this unit. This story is told in short interconnected poems from students at a fictional high school nicknamed Brimstone that reveals the violence existing and growing in their lives. These journal entries will sound familiar and terrifying to the students with themes involving all the usual cliques, plus eating disorders, angry young men set on killing, sexual orientation confusion, race and class. These are easy reading poems with intriguing issues. Word Count: 8,491 Reading Level: 4.2 Interest Level: 7-12 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.2 / points: 1.0 / quiz: 46124 / grade: Upper Grades Reading Counts!: reading level:5.5 / points:5.0 Lexile: 610L More Difficult Books: 1.Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson 
This book is a classic but many students of this age may not be familiar with it. It would be popular with the recent Pirate movies buffs and follows the theme of survival, adventure, challenge as an innkeeper’s son is led on the search for a pirate’s treasure amidst challenge and opposition. It is rates are a higher lexile score and could provide more challenge and interest for advanced readers. Publisher: Aladdin Copyright: 2000 Pages: xiii, 339 p. Available: Available ISBN: 0-689-83212-5 ISBN 13: 978-0-689-83212-3 Dewey: F LCCN: 99068357 Dimensions: 20 cm. Language: english Word Count: 66,950 Reading Level: 8.3 Interest Level: 5-9 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 8.3 / points: 12.0 / quiz: 522 / grade: Middle Grades Reading Counts!: reading level:7 / points:17.0 Lexile: 1100L 2. Whale Talk By Chris Crutcher (2001) 
TJ is an intellectually and athletically gifted, multiracial, adopted teenager, who shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. This book continues in the unit theme of loss of innocence, good vs. evil and abuse of power. This book would be good for an advanced reader. Word Count: 63,247 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: 7-12 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 6.1 / points: 10.0 / quiz: 49654 / grade: Upper Grades Reading Counts!: reading level:7.2 / points:16.0 Lexile: 1000L
Audio/Video Options:
Aron Ralston – Peter Jennings and his crew return with the author to the scene of his crisis while Aron remembers and narrates where he was trapped and what personal struggles he faced and the choices he made to survive.
3.  Touching the Void -Video (2004)
In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend as these climbers are roped together in a dangerous climb where they each face death and make grave decisions regarding each other’s survival. 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding: a review of the novel. (1978)
Works Cited Bowler, Tim. Frozen Fire. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. Print Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Books, 2008. Print Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War. New York: Random House, 1978 Print. Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk. New York: Harper Books, 2001. Print. Giles, Gail. Shattering Glass.Brookfield, Connecticut: Roaring Brook Press, 2002. Print Golding, William. Lord of the Flies: A Review. Connecticut: Current Affairs Film, 1978 Jordan, Jennifer. Savage Summit. New York: Harper Books, 2005. Print Kemper, Dean et al. Write Source. Willmington, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007. Print. Koertge, Ron. The Brinstone Journals. New York: Candlewick Press, 2001. Print. Lansing, Alfred. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Carrol and Graf, 2002. Print Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Print Ralston, Aron. Between a Rock and Hard Place. New York: Atria Books, 2004. Print Read, Paul Reirs. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. New York: Avon Books, 1974. Print. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. New York: Penguin Books. 1968. Print. Zinsser, William. On Writing Well. New York: Harper Books, 2001. Print
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