Achebe, Chinua / Things Fall Apart
Agee, James / A Death in the Family
Albom, Mitch / Tuesdays with Morrie
Austen, Jane / Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James / Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bellow, Saul / The Adventures of Augie March
Bradbury, Ray / Fahrenheit 451
Brontë, Charlotte / Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily / Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert / The Stranger
Cather, Willa / Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cather, Willa / My Antonia
Chekhov, Anton / The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate / The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph / Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore / The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen / The Red Badge of Courage
Dante / Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel / Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel / Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles / A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles / Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor / Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore / An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre / The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre / The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George / The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George / Silas Marner
Ellison, Ralph / Invisible Man
Faulkner, William / As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William / The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry / Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave / Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox / The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von / Faust
Hansberry, Lorraine / A Raisin in The Sun
Hardy, Thomas / Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel / The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph / Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest / A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest / The Old Man and The Sea
Hugo, Victor / The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale / Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jacobs, Harriet Ann / Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James, Henry / The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry / The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz / The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong / The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper / To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair / Babbitt
Mann, Thomas / The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García / One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman / Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman / Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur / The Death of a Salesman
Morrison, Toni / Beloved
Morrison, Toni / The Bluest Eye
O'Connor, Flannery / A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene / Long Day's Journey into Night
Pasternak, Boris / Doctor Zhivago
Peck, Robert Newton / A Day No Pigs Would Die
Plath, Sylvia / The Bell Jar
Proust, Marcel / Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas / The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria / All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond / Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry / Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. / The Catcher in the Rye
Shaw, George Bernard / Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary / Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon / Ceremony
Sinclar, Upton / The Jungle
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander / One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Steinbeck, John / The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis / Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram / Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher / Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan / Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William / Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David / Walden
Tolstoy, Leo / War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo / Anna Karenina
Turgenev, Ivan / Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark / Tom Sawyer
Voltaire / Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. / Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice / The Color Purple
Wells, H.G. / The Invisible Man
Wharton, Edith / The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith / Ethan Frome
Whitman, Walt / Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar / The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia / To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard / Native Son
Zusak, Markus / The Book Thief
Honors Independent Reading Assignment Spring
1. Choose one book from the list above.
2. As you read, complete the following journal entries on a google doc and share them with me: . Type the name of the book and the author at the top of the page. PUT ALL OF THE ENTRIES ON THE SAME PAGE, but put the date on which you complete the entry at the top of each entry!
EACH JOURNAL ENTRY MUST BE MORE THAN 300 WORDS. Use the questions below as a guide; DO NOT SIMPLY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN ORDER. You are NOT limited to these questions; feel free to include any personal observations on the novel. All responses must be in sentences. This is your time to convince me that you are reading your novel, so add specific, thoughtful details in your journal entries. DO NOT WRITE A PLOT SUMMARY (NO CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN FOR PLOT SUMMARIES!)
After reading the first chapter:
· Why did you select this novel?
· What information did you need to know before reading the novel? (any key background about the novel, plot, or author that assisted you in selecting this novel)
· What has happened before the novel began?
· What's going on as the story begins?
· Who is telling the story?
· What is the setting of the novel? Is the setting important or could the novel be happening anywhere? Why?
· What is the initial or first problem faced by the main character?
· How does the author get you to read on or hold your interest?
Toward the middle of the book:
· What new things are added to the original problem as the novel progresses?
· What plot twists or unexpected events happen as the novel goes on?
· Comment on the style of the novel. Is it easy or hard to follow the events?
· Is the language in the novel difficult or easy?
· To what age group is the novel aimed?
· Is there a message or main theme emerging in the book? How is it shown?
· Describe any new characters that are introduced? What is their purpose?
· At this point, if it was not required, do you want to finish the novel? Explain.
· Is the plot holding your attention? Why or why not?
¾ of the way:
· I wonder what the author means in this part because…
· I really don’t understand this part because…
· I really like/dislike this idea because…
· (Name of character) reminds me of somebody I know because…
· (Name of character) reminds me of myself because…
· (Name of character) is like (name of other character) in (title of work) because…
· I think this setting is important because…
· This scene reminds me of a similar scene in (title of work) because…
· This part is very realistic/unrealistic because…
· I like/dislike this writing because…
· This section makes me think about (give memory) because…
· I think the relationship between (character’s name) and (other character’s name) is interesting/uninteresting because…
· The ideas here remind me of ideas in (title of work) because…
· I believe the author’s message is (list idea) because…
· I like/dislike (name of character) because…
· (Name of character) is the character I admire most because…
· If I were (name of character) at this point, I would…
· This situation reminds me of a similar situation in my own life. It happened when…
· I think this book will end…
· If I could become any character in this book, I would be (name of character) because…
After you are finished reading:
· What is the climax of the novel?
· How are the major and minor conflicts solved? (What is the novel’s resolution?)
· What were the major things that helped to resolve the plot?
· What message or theme did you get from the novel? How was this message or theme conveyed?
· What type of characters were the main characters? (round, flat, dynamic, etc.)
· Were you satisfied with the end of the novel? Why or why not?
· Is the novel believable?
· Why would you (or why wouldn't you) recommend this novel to a friend?
· Why did (or didn't) the novel meet your expectations?
· What did you like the most and the least about this novel? Be specific. Think of the plot line, the style of writing, the characters, the setting, etc. when making your comments.
3. Complete the following graphic organizers using information from your novel. If you are unsure as to the meaning of a literary term, LOOK IT UP! All lines/boxes must be filled.
4. The journal entries (google docs; 40 points) and graphic organizers (paper versions; 45 points) are due by
April 21, 2017
Literary Elements Graphic organizers
1. Characters
Main Characters’ Names / Character Type (s)*flat, round, dynamic, static / Character Traits / Description
*protagonist, antagonist, minor
2. Plot – Fill in the main plot line for the entire novel.
3. Conflict
Main Conflict in the Novel / Type of Conflict*character vs ? / How is the Conflict Resolved?
4. Point of View
Who is the narrator of the novel? / What type of point of view is this? / How do you know this is the point of view?5. Setting
The main setting – Place, time, etc, / How does this setting influence the story, characters and action?6. Theme – a general statement about human beings or life that applies to both the novel and real life.
Theme ( in sentence form) / How is this theme evident in the novel AND in real life?7. Review of the Novel
Good Points of the Novel / Bad Points of the NovelFinal opinion on the novel: ______