Classics Read by English II Honors Students, 2010-2011

Little Women
The Old Man and the Sea (6)
As I Lay Dying
Jane Eyre (2)
Pride and Prejudice (2)
2001: A Space Odyssey (2)
The War of the Worlds (3)
The Time Machine (2)
Gulliver's Travels
Beowulf (2)
Treasure Island (3)
Robinson Crusoe
Les Miserables
The Great Gatsby (4)
Of Mice and Men (8)
Ethan Frome
The Call of the Wild
Wuthering Heights (2)
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Animal Farm
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2)
The Color Purple
Huck Finn (3)
"The Lady with the Lap Dog" (Anton Chekhov short story)
The Diary of a Young Girl (2)
Night (4)
Twelfth Night (3)
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (2)
Brave New World (2)
To Kill a Mockingbird (2)
The Bell Jar
Anne of Green Gables
Hamlet (2)
Macbeth (2)
Tom Sawyer
The Things They Carried
1984
The Hobbit
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2)
The Divine Comedy: Inferno 
The Iliad
The Brothers Karamazov
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow


Most popular: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

A Separate Peace/CR 11-13 Exam Study Guide

1)  Know the following characters:
            Gene
            Finny
            Brinker Hadley
            Leper Lepellier
            Chet Douglass
            Cliff Quackenbush
            Mr. Ludsbury
            Mr. Patch-Withers
            Dr. Stanpole

2)  Be able to discuss the following themes:
            Coming-of-age
            Competition/Rivalry
            Jealousy
            Friendship
            Responsibility
            Obsession
            Regret

3)  Be able to discuss the relationship between the novel's setting and its subject matter, plot, and themes.

4)  Know the following vocabulary words:
            Fervid
            Effervescent
            Conflagration
            Flagrant
            Inflammatory
            Flamboyant
            Incendiary
            Incense
            Caustic
            Cauterize
            Pyre
            Pyrotechnics
            Pyromania
            Scintilla
            Scintillate
            Confluence
            Effluent
            Flux
            Dehydrate
            Hydrology
            Cormorant
            Marinade
            Nave
            Nauseate
            Pontiff
            Pontificate
            Undulate
            Redound
            Redundant
            Inundate
            Insubordinate
            Inordinate
            Ordain
            Ordinance
            Apostle
            Stolid
            Epistolary
            Rectify
            Rectitude
            Constellation
            Stellar
            Asterisk
            Astral
            Cosmology
            Cosmopolite

5)  Know the following Greek/Latin words:
            Fluo
            Hudor
            Mar
            Naus
            Navis
            Pons
            Unda
            Kosmos
            Aster
            Stella
            Rego
            Stellein
            Ordo
            Fervo
            Flagro
            Flamma
            Incendo
            Kaiein
            Pur
            Scintilla

Honors/Advanced Application 2011

In a five paragraph essay (due at the end of class), respond to Nicholas Carr’s "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"  In your essay, explain whether or not you agree or disagree with Carr’s thesis.  Be sure to justify your argument with clear-cut examples from the essay itself. 

Weekend Reading Assignment

Read the following article:  "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"


Due: Monday, May 16