"Cat's Cradle" for a History class? that sounds kinda far-fetched. I could understand "Slaughterhouse 5" but Cat's Cradle isn't that deep into History, just a few mentions of the Manhattan Project and stuff. hmm.
Actually, it was for my final project. One of the choices was read three dystopia books (or watch six dystopia movies) and write a paper where you would explain which you thought would be most likely to happen for the United States (because it was US history) or what mixture of the books would be most likely to happen. Reading three novels in a week was cool.