Grade 11 English Language Arts Final
Hopkins
2007-2008
Overview: This year we read the following:
· Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
· The Crucible by Arthur Miller
· The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
· Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
· Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
· The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
· Where are you going? Where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates
· The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft
· The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
· The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
· A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
· Secret Observations on the Goat Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
· Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Situation: One of the reasons for reading narrative texts (stories) is to learn more about ourselves. Narratives can work as a mirror when we recognize ourselves or our experiences in the work. As a final experience for English 11, please explain where the literature we read this year intersects with your own story.
Task: Please choose at least three of the stories above and for each discuss how the characters and plots parallel your own life or experience in some way.
Guidelines:
- Identify a character that you feel is similar to you or someone you know and explain that similarity in detail.
- Identify a scene or monologue/dialogue or other plot structure that you feel is similar to your own experience.
- Piece should be between two to three pages.
- You will have three class periods to work on this. Paper is due at the end of Thursday’s class.
- We will share them on Monday.
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