Outside reading texts for Fortuna's 12 Honors students

Part of the English 12 Honors curriculum is a requirement for students to read two texts independently, derived from the following list of titles.

Please spend the whole class today and for homework tonight finding as much information about each criteria as possible. Please note each criteria below as you surf the web.

Anyone who posts a thoughtful comment about an individual title on this blog will receive 5 extra credit points. However, please register your pseudonym with Ms. Fortuna before submitting your comment. Thanks!

Website url
Plot summary
Themes and arguments
Scholarly/ academic research titles

Diamant, Anita, The Red Tent

Dubus, Andre III, House of Sand and Fog

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars

Gruen, Sara, Water for Elephants

Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner

Irving, John, Cider House Rules

Kingsolver, Barbara, Prodigal Summer

Maclean, Norman, A River Runs Through It and Harrison, Jim, Legends of the Fall

Maguire, Gregory, Wicked

Morrison, Toni, Beloved

Paton, Alan, Cry the Beloved Country

Pearl, Matthew, The Dante Club

Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar

Updike, John, Gertrude and Claudius