https:\/\/ramapo.instructure.com\/enroll\/4N8D4H<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n8) Please submit your essay as a Word (.doc or .docx) or PDF file.<\/p>\n
Good luck!<\/p>\n
ESSAY QUESTIONS<\/p>\n
We selected this novel because of its great writing and story, and also because it addresses many questions and issues that can be read, analyzed, and discussed through many disciplinary lenses. Fundamentally, Parable of the Sower<\/em> is a story about the need for adaptation, growth and learning in a difficult and challenging world. And that those who not only survive but create the future can only achieve such change through deep study, rigorous practice and application, and the building of community around that study, practice, and application.<\/p>\nHere are some suggested prompts for your essay. Please feel free to take any approach and write about other ideas if you wish, as long as you use concrete examples from the novel and bring your ideas together in a compelling and convincing way. Remember to limit your essay to 1000 words<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n- Earthseed has \u201cGod is change\u201d as its central idea. What do you think of this idea of God and the reasons Lauren has for thinking of it this way?<\/li>\n
- What elements of the world of the novel reflect things in your own experience of the world, and how does that affect your experience of reading it?<\/li>\n
- Lauren has a characteristic called \u201chyperempathy.\u201d How does that affect your view of her and what it might say about her experience of the world?<\/li>\n
- The novel expresses many perspectives on the roles of communities. What do you think is the value of community, and what aspects of the novel might support that idea?<\/li>\n
- What aspects of the situation in the novel (social, political, cultural, economic, environmental, etc.) do you see reflected in our current situation in the world?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>Past Essay Winners<\/div>\n
Past essay winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Class of 2029: Isabella Marler, Syeira Palmer, Isabella Rivero<\/li>\n
- Class of 2028: Olivia Ha, Masayasu Nitta, Tori Sturdivant-Miller<\/li>\n
- Class of 2027: Demiana Ghattas, Sarah Glisson, Ryan Grompone<\/li>\n
- Class of 2026: Marina Gannon, Stefanie Viera, and Emma Wunder<\/li>\n
- Class of 2025: Aafnan Alam, Anne-Marie Daly, and Giovanna LaMonica<\/li>\n
- Class of 2024: Danielle Bongiovanni, Bobby Ciarletta, and Solie Kang<\/li>\n
- Class of 2023: Danielle di Pentima, Caitlin Kovacs, and Matthew Wikfors<\/li>\n
- Class of 2022: Gabriela Buniowska, Khalisah Hameed, and Taisei Miles<\/li>\n
- Class of 2021: Ashley Francis, Jessica Ryan, and Lauren Storch<\/li>\n
- Class of 2020: Natalie Dahl, Gunnar Hopson, and Rachel Loia<\/li>\n
- Class of 2019: Jose Carrillo, Amie Wuchter, and Scott Yunker, Jr.<\/li>\n
- Class of 2018: John Distefano, Victoria Tommasulo, and Matthew Earl<\/li>\n
- Class of 2017: Nathaniel Birrer, Emily Aurora Boyle, and Josephine Han<\/li>\n
- Class of 2016: Steven Bunin, Jennifer Paldino, and Max Zerbian<\/li>\n
- Class of 2015: Melanie Ciandella, Thomas Colella, and Jonathan Mangel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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Suggest a Book for the Next Summer Read<\/h3>\n
If you’ve read a book that you believe is a “must-read” for new students, please click on the button below and let us know! We’re always open to good suggestions.<\/p>\n
Summer Read Suggestion Form<\/a><\/p>\n<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>Previous Summer Reads<\/div>\n
\n- Fall 2026: The Parable of the Sower<\/em> by Octavia Butler<\/li>\n
- Fall 2025: Fire Exit<\/em> by Morgan Talty<\/li>\n
- Fall 2024: The Personal Librarian<\/em> by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray<\/li>\n
- Fall 2023: Tastes Like War: A Memoir<\/em> by Grace M. Cho<\/li>\n
- Fall 2022:\u00a0Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI<\/em> by David Grann<\/li>\n
- Fall 2021: Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge<\/em> by Erica Armstrong Dunbar<\/li>\n
- Fall 2020: Exit West<\/em> by Mohsin Hamid<\/li>\n
- Fall 2019: The Rent Collector<\/em> by Camron Wright<\/li>\n
- Fall 2018: The Leavers: A Novel<\/em> by Lisa Ko<\/li>\n
- Fall 2017: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed<\/em> by Jon Ronson<\/li>\n
- Fall 2016: Citizen: An American Lyric<\/em> by Claudia Rankine<\/li>\n
- Fall 2015: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free<\/em> by H\u00e9ctor Tobar<\/li>\n
- Fall 2014: Enrique’s Journey:<\/em> The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey To Reunite with his Mother b<\/em>y Sonia Nazario<\/li>\n
- Fall 2013: Digital Vertigo: How Today\u2019s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us<\/em> by Andrew Keen<\/li>\n
- Fall 2012: American Nerd: The Story of My People<\/em> by Benjamin Nugent<\/li>\n
- Fall 2011: Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong<\/em>
\nby James Loewen<\/li>\n- Fall 2010: Mountains Beyond Mountains<\/em> by Tracy Kidder<\/li>\n
- Fall 2009: The Last Lecture<\/em> by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow<\/li>\n
- Fall 2008: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science<\/em> by Natalie Angier<\/li>\n
- Fall 2007: A Long Way Gone<\/em> by Ishmael Beah<\/li>\n
- Fall 2006: Fast Food Nation<\/em> by Eric Schlosser<\/li>\n
- Fall 2005: Reading Lolita in Teheran<\/em> by Azar Nafisi<\/li>\n
- Fall 2004: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<\/em> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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