What would Middle Schoolers read in English class if free to choose? Harry Potter? Video game instructions? Comic books?
At Acton Academy, Eagles can choose which Deep Books to read, as long as studio-mates agree the book is “life changing: or “world changing.”
Here’s this year’s list. (Many Eagles are out on apprenticeships, so only sixteen out of thirty five are represented .)
- 1984 (2)
- A Life Decoded (Craig Venter)
- Fahrenheit 451 (2)
- Flowers for Algernon
- A Brief History of Time
- A Sand County Almanac,
- Animal Farm (6)
- Animal Liberation
- Brave New World (3)
- Catch-22
- Death of a Salesman
- Democracy in America
- Extra Lives
- Heart of Darkness
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (2)
- Lord of the Flies.
- Madame Bovary
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- The Once and Future King.
- One World Schoolhouse
- Reality is Broken
- Redesigning humans
- Silent Spring
- Sophie’s World
- Steal Like an Artist
- The Art of War
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
- The General Theory of Money, Interest, and Employment
- The Giver
- The Iliad
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Jungle
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
- The Prince (2)
- The Rule of Law,
- The Screwtape Letters,
- To Kill A Mockingbird (4)
- To Sell is Human
- With the Old Breed.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance