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Honors English Personal AnthologyThis year we have been reading American authors exclusively. In order for you to expand your horizons and sample additional American authors, you will compile an anthology of some of your favorite short works.
In compiling your anthology, you will act as editor, searching for those works that best reflect your own personality, interests and literary taste. This exercise will give you the opportunity to explore.
If you start reading a short story and find that it bores you, put it away and find another. Rule number one is DON’T BE BORED!
After you have selected and compiled your favorite works, you will write a preface (600 words) in which you draw conclusions about your choices and the identification of a theme that relates to your collection. Address how you made your choices- what drew you to a particular artist, poet or article. The preface will also include why you chose the literary criticism pieces that you write about.
In summary- Actual written work that you create will consist of:
Table of contents
2 pages (600 word) preface (please address the scene from the novel or play in your preface)
1.5 page (500 word) response to Literary Criticism to an American work
Works Cited Pages
Total pages YOU compose 4
ORGANIZATION: The Personal Anthology will follow the same order as the list or required works.
The collection will consist of the following:
Table of contents
Preface
Literary criticism analysis (yours)
The works cited

The first check point date: ___________________
Second check point date: _____________

Works Cited:
Date:______________

Final project:
Date:_____________
Your anthology will include the following (all by American authors):
Poem written before 1914 (the beginning of WWI) 1*
Poem written between 1914 and 1964 1*
Poem written since 1965 1*
*You may substitute one poem w/a work of art relevant to the time period.
Essay (or newspaper or magazine personal opinion columns 1
or letters to the editors) written by living Americans.
Recent objective news article on subject which interest you
but which concerns neither entertainment nor sports. 1
From a novel OR a play, a scene describing the moment during which
a character realizes or learns something about her/himself (Note: you do
not need to read a new novel for this assignment) 1
Work (s) of short fiction by a non-Caucasian American. 1
Work (s) (genres of your choice) 20th or 21st century American authors 1
Scholarly articles on literary criticism relating to ONE of your works. 1
500 word response (with in text citations) to literary criticism. 1
Works Cited Page
Scene from the novel or play: include page of the scene; circle the exact spot in the text.