Great American Reads

This webquest is meant to guide an independent reading (mostly outside of class) assignment.  The goals are:

1. To give the student choice in what to read and to introduce them to the vast treasures available to them in books.
2. To help them see reading as an enjoyable and communal activity
3. To help them to talk about what they read with others
4. To help parents/adults become involved in their children's learning
5. To help make possible a wide range of reading choices--subjects, genres, themes
   
6. To help make them life-long readers
   

Standards

Note on range and content of student reading from Anchor Standards for reading:

To become college and career ready, students must grapple with works of exceptional craft and thought whose range extends across genres, cultures, and centuries. Such works offer profound insights into the human condition and serve as models for students� own thinking and writing. Along with high-quality contemporary works, these texts should be chosen from among seminal U.S. documents, the classics of American literature, and the timeless dramas of Shakespeare. Through wide and deep reading of literature and literary nonfiction of steadily increasing sophistication, students gain a reservoir of literary and cultural knowledge, references, and images; the ability to evaluate intricate arguments; and the capacity to surmount the challenges posed by complex texts.