Monday, November 3, 2008

Quarter Two Outside Reading Assignment


Choose one of the works listed for each marking quarter. Read the entire work and annotate it. All annotations must be done in the book, either in the margins or on Post-It notes. No annotations will be accepted on separate paper.
Each week, you must post a key passage from the work on your outside reading blog and explain the importance of each in relation to the work as a whole. Then, in a 50 to 100 word analysis, discuss the importance of the passage with reference to specific literary and rhetorical devices.
You must print and post a final response to the book as a whole on your outside reading blog.
Books and annotations will be collected at the end of the quarter.

Quarter Two Book Choices:

· Collected Poems, 1909-1962 – T.S. Eliot, ISBN-13: 9780151189786
· Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson, ISBN-13: 9780316184137
· Robert Frost's Poems – Robert Frost, ISBN-13: 9780312983321
· Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Dover Thrift Editions Series) – Walt Whitman, ISBN-13: 9780486456768
· Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Edition Series) – John Milton, ISBN-13: 9780393924282

· The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) – Edgar Allan Poe ISBN-13: 9781593080648
· Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories – Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN-13: 9780486270609
· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) – Washington Irving, ISBN-13: 9781593082253

· Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) – Bram Stoker, ISBN-13: 9781593080044
· Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte, ISBN-13: 9780451529251
· 1984 – George Orwell, ISBN-13: 9780451524935
· A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess, ISBN-13: 9780393312836
· The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) – Oscar Wilde, ISBN-13: 9781593080259


Book choices are due Friday, November 7, 2008. Blog posts are due every Friday. Quarter Two assignment is due January 26, 2009.

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