The Assignment
0) After checking the literary period assigned by your date
of birth choose two novels from the bibliographies provided to the right
of the assignment link. See also the Condensed Authors
List for suggested authors if you want to find your
own book.
1) Read the one novel from each of the assigned American
literary periods (see middle column on previous
page) as determined by your date of birth.
1a) Visit the library page's 
or go directly to Gale
Group on-line data bases (I will email the password) to find the Scribner
Writers Series. Read one entire article on each of your two authors paying
special attention to the novel you are or will be reading.
1b) Read four poems, two from each of the literary periods assigned to you.
1c) Find out about the two assigned American literary periods by reading about
them in a book such as The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the US,
an on-line literary
history or a text book.
1d) To complete your research and study visit the links
page of the this site and search The
Artchive (click Mona Lisa) for American artists. Find an artist born about
the same time as each of your authors. Include an artist's image in your paper
.
2) Report on each novel separately using the summer
novel response form. Submit via email on
or before the required date.
2a) Report on the two poems, one from each of the periods assigned to you,
using the poetry response
form. Choose one poem you like best from each period.
2c) Report on your artist's paintings or work on the art
response form.
3) Write a paper comparing
the two books and the two periods in which they were written; include reference
to the poems and the art you studied in this paper. Bring your paper which
includes the bibliography
(novels, poems, art work and literary history) to the first day of class.
