2008 Summer Orientation Common Reading
| Common Reading: Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez. In preparation for Orientation, we ask all students to read a common text. During Summer Orientation, you will discuss this book with other students in your Residential Learning Community. You should read the text and be prepared to discuss it when you arrive. This year’s text is Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez, an autobiographical account of an immigrant boy’s struggle with poverty and prejudice and of the path that brought him to Santa Clara University as a student. Professor Jiménez is the Fay Boyle Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures. In November 2002, he was honored as one of four U.S. Professors of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Breaking Through (Houghton Mifflin Co., ISBN: 0618342486, list price $6.95) is readily available in bookstores or may be ordered through www.barnesandnoble.com; shipping from the online bookstore is currently estimated within 24 hours. We encourage you to obtain your copy as soon as possible. If you have difficulty obtaining the text or have other questions about it, please contact the Office of New Student Programs at 408-551-1995. Previous book selections include the 2007 Selection: Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, the 2006 selection: Frank McCourt's Teacher Man , the 2005 selection: August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the 2004 selection: Tobias Wolff's Old School, the 2003 selection: Francisco Jimenez's Breaking Through, and the 2002 selection: Thomas Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree. |
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