Grade 11 University English
ISP Booklist
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Fiction
Abbott, Edwin A.: Flatland
Austen, Jane: Emma Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility
Balzac, Honore de: Cousin Bette Colonel Chabert Eugenie Grandet
Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backwards
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: Lady Audley’s Secret
Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre The Professor Shirley Villette
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burney, Frances: Evelina
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone The Woman in White
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House David Copperfield Great Expectations Hard Times Little Dorrit Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities
Disraeli, Benjamin: Sybil or The Two Nations Dumas, Alexandre (pere): The Count of Monte Cristo The Man in the Iron Mask The Three Musketeers
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Dumas, Alexandre (fils): La Dame aux Camellias
Edgeworth, Maria: Belinda Castle Rackrent
Eliot, George: Silas Marner
Fielding, Henry: History of Tom Jones Shamela
Findley, Timothy: Not Wanted on the Voyage Spadework The Telling of Lies
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby This Side of Paradise
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cousin Phillis Cranford Lois the Witch Mary Barton North and South
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Grossmith, George & Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody
Hardy, Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure The Return of the Native Tess of the d’Urbervilles Under the Greenwood Tree
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Hogg, James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Huysmans, Joris-Karl: Against Nature
James, Henry: The Aspern Papers The Wings of the Dove Portrait of a Lady
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kipling, Rudyard Kim The Jungle Book
Lawrence, D.H.: Daughters of the Vicar Lady Chatterley’s Lover The Lost Girl The Rainbow Sons and Lovers Women in Love
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Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami
Morris, William: News from Nowhere
Orwell, George: Animal Farm Nineteen-Eighty-Four
Pushkin, Alexander: Eugene Onegin
Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
Schreiner, Olive: The Story of An African Farm
Steinbeck, John: East of Eden The Grapes of Wrath Tortilla Flat
Stendhal (Henri Beyle): The Red and the Black
Stevenson, Robert L.: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina Resurrection
Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers Phineas Redux The Warden
Tsao, Hsueh-Chin: Dream of the Red Chamber
Turgenev, Ivan: Rudin
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Voltaire: Candide
Wells, H.G.: Invisible Man War of the Worlds
Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome The House of Mirth
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Zola, Emile: The Masterpiece Therese Raquin |
Non-Fiction
Douglass, Frederick: (305.567 DOU) Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave
More, Thomas: (335.02 MOR) Utopia
Chaucer, Geoffrey: (821 CHA) Canterbury Tales
Milton, John: (821 MIL) Paradise Lost
Marlowe, Christopher: (822 MAR) Dr. Faustus
Shaw, George Bernard: (822 SHA) Major Barbara (play) Pygmalion (play) Saint Joan (play)
Ibsen, Henrik (839.8226 IBS) A Doll's House An Enemy of the People Ghosts Hedda Gabler Peter Gynt
Chekov, Anton: (891.723 CHE) The Cherry Orchard The Seagull
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All other works of literature must have the approval of the instructor.
Independent Study Project
Students will select challenging texts from the recommended Grade 11 reading list. Since the theme of this course is Human Folly, you are going to select a novel that displays character, marital, political, religious and/or societal flaws. As you read the novel, consider the following questions:
Who holds the power in the marital and familial relationships? How are various characters treated? Why are they treated this way? What is the result of this treatment?
Look at the class structure in the novel. Focus on the rich vs. the poor. How are they treated? Why are they treated this way? What is the result of this treatment?
Look at the government as presented in the novel. How does it treat the people? Why are they treated this way? What is the result of this treatment?
Look at the character traits of the main characters in the novel. Do they possess flaws? What are the results of these flaws?
Look at the religion as presented in the novel. What role does the religion play in the novel? What affect does the religion have on the characters/society? Why are they treated this way? What is the result of this treatment?
Instructions
Students will read and critically analyze one text for the ISP essay. This text must be approved by the teacher. In order to make sure the ISP essays are original, the rule of two students for the same novel/class stands.
Students must prepare a literary research essay. The paper must be between 1000-1250 words double spaced. It must have a valid thesis, supporting arguments and an academic level introduction and conclusion.
Students are expected to reinforce their thesis with the inclusion of secondary sources into the essay. The secondary sources must be valid literary essays, reviews and literary criticism. Wikipedia, Spark Notes and Penguin Novel Guides and the like are NOT valid secondary sources. At least two secondary sources must be cited in your essay.
Students must have the following to complete the requirements of the ISP:
All components of the ISP must be completed. The final essay is weighted at 10% of the final mark. The process work is weighted at 5% of the final mark.
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Process (5 % of ISP):
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Product (10 % of ISP):
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