English I
Extra Credit Novel List
Mrs. Jeffries
Please understand that the reading of one of the novels below is extra credit and
must be approved by the teacher first. If you decide partake in this extra credit
opportunity, you will write a 2 page response paper to demonstrate your knowledge of
the particular work chosen.
NOVELS
William Hill Brown The Power of
Sympathy
Stephen Crane The Red Badge of
Courage
Susanna Rowson Charolette Temple
Kate Chopin The Awakening
Charles Brockden Brown Edgar
Huntly
Willa Cather My Antonia
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet
Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of
the Seven Gables
Henry James Daisy Miller
Mark Twain The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
James Fennimore Cooper The Last of
the Mohicans
Ernest Hemmingway The Sun Also
Rises
Nella Larsen Quicksand
Nella Larsen Passing
William Faulkner The Sound and the
Fury
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse- Five
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye
Extra Credit Novel Assignment Response Paper Requirements
2 pages double spaced type using Times New Roman font size 12
1” margins- left, right, top & bottom (typically “normal” margin settings using Microsoft
word)
Heading is on top line of the upper left corner and will look like this:
Joe Student
Evans 1
FORMAT
Mrs.Evans
Jeffries
Bob
Mrs.
Jeffries
English
I
English
I
12 September
2011
12 September 2011
Striving for the Past
Your last name is
inserted as a
“header” as is the
page number
CONTENT
Striving for the Unattainable Green Light of the Past
Center title on the on the next line after heading
Insert your last name in the upper right-hand corner of the page as a “header” in addition
to inserting the page number in the same area as well (see example)
Address the following questions within your response paper:
1. What does the text have to do with you, personally, and with your life (past,
present or future)? It is not acceptable to write that the text has NOTHING to do
with you, since just about everything humans can write has to do in some way with
every other human. A brief summation of the novel that relates to you as a human
being.
2. How much does the text agree or clash with your view of the world, and what
you consider right and wrong? Use several quotes as examples of how it agrees
with and supports what you think about the world, about right and wrong, and
about what you think it is to be human. Use quotes and examples to discuss how
the text disagrees with what you think about the world and about right and wrong.
3. How much were your views and opinions challenged or changed by this text,
if at all? Did the text communicate with you? Why or why not? Give examples of
how your views might have changed or been strengthened (or perhaps, of why the
text failed to convince you, the way it is). Please do not write "I agree with
everything the author wrote," since everybody disagrees about something, even if
it is a tiny point. Use quotes to illustrate your points of challenge, or where you
were persuaded, or where it left you cold.
4. To sum up, what is your overall reaction to the text? Would you read something
else like this, or by this author, in the future? Why or why not? To whom would
you recommend this text? Why?
Please be advised that the point of this assignment is to broaden your knowledge of American Literature, develop
your critical and creative thinking skills while practicing proper MLA format. Do not lift text or ideas from the
internet. Read the novel. Put your own ideas forth. Offer support of your ideas in the form of examples from the
text. I will not accept plagiarized work.*