Geoffrey
Chaucer
Canterbury
Tales Lesson Plans
Tim O' Brien
Tim
O"Brien's Home Page
Writing
Vietnam: President's Lecture, 21 April 1999
Another
Tim O'Brien Web Page
Questions
about The Things They Carried
Reader's
Companion to The Things They Carried
A
Web Quest
Teacher
CyberGuide
Menu
of Class Notes
History,
Questions, Notes
E. Annie
Proulx
The
Shipping News
Ayn Rand
Anthem
Set in
a future that has lost much knowledge about technology and shuns individuality,
a man and a woman break free from the bonds of conformity.
Erich Maria
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Creative
Suggestions
J. D. Salinger
Lesson
Plans for The Catcher in the Rye
Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley
Biography
Frankenstein
The classic
story of man playing god and toying with the laws of nature.
Found
Poem - Using Frankenstein to create a found Poem
Composition
Simulated Search Activity
Notes
for Frankenstein
Novel
Analysis
Frankenstein
Theme assignment
Knowledge
Map
Frankenstein
Resources on-line
Walter Scott
Biography
Ivanhoe
Follows the Saxon Knight, Wilfred
of Ivanhoe, during his conquest of Normandy.
Upton Sinclair
Biography
Damaged
Goods
A novelization
of the play "Les Avaries" about sexual imorality, by Eugene Brieux
The
Jungle
A gripping,
gritty expose of the meat-packing industry in turn-of-the-century Chicago.
John Steinbeck
Nobel
Prize Acceptance Speech
The
Grapes of Wrath Study Site
Poems
to Go With Grapes of Wrath
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's
Travels Essay Prompt on a Literary
Element: Critique Roland Barthes has
said, "Literature is the question minus the answer." Choose a novel
or play and, considering Barthes' observation, write an essay in which
you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which
it offers any answers. Explain how the author's treatment of this
question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid
mere plot summary.
Leo Tolstoy
The
Emperor's Three Questions
Biography
Anna
Karenina
The story of an unhappily married
woman who begins a downhill spiral after engaging in several affairs, one
of which takes her away from her beloved son forever.
Father
Sergius
The story of a young man whose
past comes back to haunt him and his search for redemption.
Master
and Man
A landowner and servant confront
their relationship with one another as they travel through a snowstorm.
War
and Peace
The story of two families who
become intertwined during the Napoleonic
Mark Twain
Tom
Sawyer
Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
Tom
Sawyer, Detective
Tom
Sawyer Abroad
The
Bridge-Builders
Captain
Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
A humorous look at a heaven where
almost everyone gets in and has their dreams fulfilled -- until those dreams
conflict with each other.
The
Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
A
Horse's Tale
The
Prince and the Pauper
The
Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Is
Shakespeare Dead?
A
Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
A Yankee gets carried back to
the time of King Arthur. Contrasts democracy with a feudal monarchy.
Robert Penn Warren All
the King's Men
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
Critique Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the
answer." Choose a novel or play and, considering Barthes' observation,
write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises
and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author's
treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a
whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
Eudora
Welty (1909-2001)
The
Ponder Heart
Mississippi
Writer's Page on Eudora Welty
The
Clarion Ledger-Mississippi News about Welty
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Biography
The
Age of Innocence
A story of the upper classes
of Old New York, where everybody has to play the accepted role to be welcome.
Bunner
Sisters
Ethan
Frome
Outline
of Key Convepts in Ethan Frome
Lesson
Plans and Further Reading Suggestions
Classic
Notes
Movie
Review with Liam Neeson
Summer
The
Glimpses of the Moon
The
Touchstone
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
Critique Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the
answer." Choose a novel or play and, considering Barthes' observation,
write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises
and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author's
treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a
whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
A Room of One's Own Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
The Waves
Richard Wright
Native Son Study
Questions
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