Name Period Date Tucci Senior Honors Research Works To Be Read Over the Summer 1. Select a novel/poetry by a British author, get it approved by your instructor. Email: mtucci@gcchs.org before July 1 st. 2. Read the approved novel/poetry over the summer. 3. Find 2 pieces of internet criticism on your novel not spark notes, cliff notes, pink monkey or any study guide sites. Read them to help lead you toward your thesis and plan. Also, find your novel in NOVELS FOR STUDENTS in the GCCHS Library or any local library and read the entire section on your novel. 4. You will write your research paper on this novel. You must generate your own thesis and plan which must be approved by the instructor. 5. During the school year, you will also work on a power point on the novel you selected. 15-30 slides a. Author slides 1-3 b. Classification of novel 1-2 c. Setting 1-2 d. Character Id. List (Major and Minor) 2-5 e. Brief Synopsis 3-5 f. Your thesis and plan 1 g. 3 main areas of support, examples and explanations 6-10 h. Bibliography-sources used for this power point. Some Suggested Readings and Topic Ideas for Senior Honors Independently Read Literary Work for the Research Paper follow: 1. Chaucer s Knight s Tale and the elements of a medieval romance. 2. Chaucer s Nun s Priest s Tale and the elements of a beast fable. 3. Chaucer s Miller s Tale and the elements of a fabliau. 4. Spenser s Faerie Queene Book I and the use of allegory. 5. Shakespeare s King Lear as a double tragedy (Lear and Gloucester) about there being no justice in the world. 6. John Donne as a Metaphysical poet The Flea, The Sun Rising. 7. Andrew Marvell s To His Coy Mistress as a carpe diem poem of seduction. 8. Pope s The Rape of the Lock as a mock epic. 9. Swift s A Modest Proposal as juvenilia satire and the model for the structure of an argumentative essay. 10. Daniel Defoe s Robinson Crusoe as a travel, adventure novel based on the rise of capitalism, written for the middle class (Bourgeois epic). 11. Mary Wollstonecraft s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and her argument that women are not genetically inferior to men, but that they are made inferior by being denied education. 12. William Blake s Songs of Innocence and Experience ( The Tyger and The Lamb ) as moral contraries Does the achievement of goodness require experience? Also examine his moral symbols in The Sick Rose. 13. Two romantic revolutionaries: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. How their Lyrical Ballads took poetry in a new direction: eliminated inflated diction, and returned poetry to a primal, natural state( Daffodils and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud : by Wordsworth and how they combine solitude with God in nature) or (Coleridge s The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner as a narrative on the condition of man in an incomprehensible natural universe and how he combines theology, philosophy, and travel in his poem). 14. Analysis of Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci. Themes of death and beauty and love as selfdestructive and how the poem reflects his tuberculosis. 15. Mary Shelley s Frankenstein as gothic horror.
Tucci Senior Honors 2. 16. Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice and the theme of marriage and the decisions associated with marriage how to make the right choice and what happens when one doesn t make the right choice. 17. Charles Dickens s Oliver Twist shows Dickens as a social critic and the political context of the 1834 Poor Law Reform. 18. Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights as a romantic narrative influenced by the wild, harsh landscape of the Yorkshire region and developing characters of deep psychological complexity. 19. Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre, a bildungsroman novel which uses its title character s intelligence, morality, and spirit to navigate a world dominated by men and how it contains elements of feminist thinking. 20. Robert Browning s My Last Duchess, a dramatic monologue that says that art is more important than love narrated by a sociopath. 21. Thomas Hardy s novels (Tess of the d Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, or Jude the Obscure) explore the demise of prosperity brought on by the removal of trade protections favoring the British farmer and the increasing urbanization of England. 22. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s The Hound of the Baskervilles reflects Doyle s training as a man of science featuring the technique of observation which is in line with the scientific spirit of the late 19th, and early 20th centuries. Even Darwin launched his theory based on the observation of birds in the Galapagos Islands. Doyle as the master technician of the detective novel genre. 23. HG. Wells pioneered the genre of science fiction. His fertile scientific imagination can be seen in The Time Machine where he creates a grotesque Garden of Eden where man has evolved into two bipolar species: the ultra civilized and the brawny( class system),and The Island of Dr. Moreau which focuses on how evolution can be harnessed and controlled. 24. Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness as an attack on colonization. Man witnessing the mindless extraction of natural resources while inhumanely exploiting the native workers in the Congo under the guise of civilizing a primitive culture. 25. George Bernard Shaw s play Pygmalion as a comment on language and the class system in England. 25. Henry James s novel The Turn of the Screw is a horror story that is ambiguous because of the narrator s involvement in the action. James believed that what created a worthwhile novel was less what the novelist depicted than how he or she depicted it. 25. George Orwells novel 1984 as a dystopian novel about the future oppression of new technologies. 28. C.S. Lewis s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is an allegory of the life and death of Christ 29. How does Tolkien s The Hobbit follow Joseph Campbell s steps for a heroic journey. 30. Any other work by a British Author which is of literary merit.
Tucci Senior Honors 3. SENIOR HONORS ENGLISH TENTATIVE SYLLABUS-Subject to change. I. Research Paper A. Choose one piece of literature from any literary period and generate a thesis and plan before writing a paper using 5 sources done in MLA style All grades for this completed paper and power point will go on the 3 rd /4 th quarter grading period. II. Old English or Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066 B. The Epic Beowulf 1. The Seafarer 2. The Wanderer 3. The Wife s Lament C. Histories 1. Bede s A History of the English Church and People 2. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle III. Middle English or Medieval Period 1066-1485 A. Chaucer s Canterbury Tales 1. General Prologue 2. The Pardoner s Tale 3. The Wife of Bath s Tale B. Ballads 1. Lord Randall 3. Barbara Allen 2. Get Up and Bar the Door C. Le Morte d Arthur excerpt IV. The Renaissance 1485-1660 1. Sonnets a. Italian c. Spenserian 2. Pastorals b. English/Shak espearean 3. Metaphysical Poetry 4. Cavalier/Carpe Diem Poetry
Tucci Senior Honors 4. 5. Devotional Poetry B. Prose (if time permits) C. Drama 1. Macbeth 2. Othello V. Neoclassical Period or The Restoration 1660-1798 A. Satire B. Nonfiction C. Poetry 1. Gulliver s Travels excerpt/film 2. A Modest Proposal VI. Romantic Period 1798-1832 B. Novel 1. The essay (if time permits) 1. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (if time permits) 1. Burns To a Mouse and To a Louse 2. Blake The Lamb and The Tyger 3. Lyric Poetry VII. Victorian Period 1832-1900 B. Novel a. Wordsworth The World is Too Much With Us b. Coleridge The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (if time permits) 1. Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice (if time permits) 2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly s Introduction to Frankenstein (if time permits) 1. Robert Browning My Last Duchess 2. Hopkins God s Grandeur 3. Houseman To an Athlete Dying Young 1. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Tucci Senior Honors 5. 2. Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights (if time permits) VIII. Modern Period of Literature 1901-Present (if time permits) 1. Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2. T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men (if time permits) 3. Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night B. Fiction 1. Nonfiction Orwell s Shooting an Elephant 2. Short Stories a. The Demon Lover b. Araby 3. Novel-Conrad s Heart of Darkness (if time permits) c. The Rocking- Horse Winner IX. MAJOR WORKS Beowulf Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Macbeth by William Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift One independent novel of literary merit written by an English author.