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**This resource document accompanies the anthology assignment posted
ABOVE in the anthology section of the website.
Anthology Resources: Please remember these are POSSIBLE suggestions for
anthology work. It is up to students to choose works they feel represent their
thinking and work best with the theme. It is also the student's responsibility to find
resources that are appropriate for their reading level and have content they AND
their parents/guardians are comfortable with.
General resources by theme:
http://www.commonlit.org/themes
Short stories resources: Remember that short stories pack a big punch. One short
story might touch on 5-10 of the themes/topics we are exploring. If you find an
author who writes short stories that all seem to work well for your anthology, you
are welcome to work with just that author, or one or two. Same for poetry.
https://americanliterature.com/100-great-short-stories
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/20699.Best_Short_Stories_of_All_Time
Upcoming due dates
October 23: film
November 9: Short stories (2-3)
December 1: Novel, non-fiction
Student
IP, WH, JB, BS
Topic
Perseverance
Resource ideas
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/perseverance
Nonfiction: Paul Tough (How Children Succeed), Outliers, Into Thin
Air, Unbroken Biography: Not Fade Away- A Short Life Well Lived by
Lawrence Shames and Peter Barton
Film: Unbroken, Pursuit of Happyness, Rocky
Fiction: Count of Monte Cristo, All But My Life by Gerda WeissmanKlein, Old Man and the Sea
JO, RB
Fearlessness/
fear
fiction: The Book Thief, A Tale of Two Cities, the lord of the rings
trilogy
film: V for Vendetta, The Great Escape, The Shining, Blair Witch
Project
PR
Pain (need to
narrow this
one)
fiction: Fault in Our Stars
film: Terms of Endearment, My Girl, Silver Linings Playbook
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TT, HL
Disadvantage/i
nequality/
discrimination
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/discrimination
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/inequality
nonfiction: Ain't No Makin It by Jay MacLeod
musical/play: Les Mis
fiction: Les Miserables, the Outsiders
film: The Help, X, Mississippi Burning,Crash
RS
Music industry
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/music-industry
Films: Walk the Line/Ray, Bob Marley: The Untold Story (book),
Dreamgirls, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a
'comin
JW
The complexity
of emotions
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/emotional
nonfiction: Brene Brown (author)
play: circle mirror, whose afraid of virginia woolf
fiction: A Tale of Two Cities, Time Traveler's Wife, Beloved, Mrs.
Dalloway, Middlemarch
film: Stranger than fiction, Inside Out
AM
Companionship
play: Our Town
fiction: Anne of Green Gables, the Help, Water for Elephants, The Art
of Racing in the Rain,
nonfiction: Real Love, Marley and me,
Film: Grumpy Old Men, Stand By Me, Perks of Being a Wallflower,
True Grit, Scent of a Woman
CJ
Ambition
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/ambition
plays: Hamlet, Macbeth
fiction: All the King's Men,
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nonfiction: Up from Slavery, Pursuit of Happyness
film: Wall Street, Erin Brokovitch, Sweet Smell of Success, Citizen
Kane, Runaway Jury
BG
Human
relationship
with nature
Nonfiction: Last child in the woods
Walden by H.D. Thoreau
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Lots of Barbara Kingsolver is both fiction and non-fiction and
addresses human interaction with nature
film: Jeremiah Johnson, Into the Wild, Avatar
AB
Coming of age
Fiction: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
non-fiction: Angela's Ashes
Film: Breakfast Club, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Say Anything,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Garden State, The Spectacular Now, Juno,
Thirteen
CT
How art effects
life
http://philosophybites.com/2008/08/aaron-ridley-on.html --> a
discussion of Nietzsche's take on the relationship between art and
truth
play: Red
films: Frida, My Left Foot, Big Eyes
CA
Discrimination
(specifically in
the LGBT
community)
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/ya-lgbt
Movie: Philadelphia, Rent, Pariah, Milk
Play: The Laramie Project
Play: stop kiss, angels in america
KD, GJ
Anxiety/depres
sion/ suicide
Hyperbole and a Half, YA lit = 13 Reasons Why
play: Night Mother
fiction: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Bell Jar
film: The Machinist, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Silver Linings
Playbook, Girl Interrupted, Donnie Darko
AP, KB
Beauty/
appearances
Film --> Life is Beautiful, Good-bye Lenin, American Beauty, Amelie,
Elephant Man
Nonfiction: the Beauty Myth
play: BFE
fiction: the picture of dorian gray, memoirs of a geisha, Wonder
JK, EH
Autism
Fiction: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Rules
(novel), Flowers for Algernon
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Film: House Rules, Rain Main, Radio, I am Sam
MS, LV, EC, LB
Gender roles
nonfiction: how to be a woman (Moran), Gender and Jim Crow
Plays: Streetcar named Desire, Hedda Gabler, Doll's House, Top Girls,
Uncommon Women and Others
Fiction: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, memoirs of a geisha, scarlett
letter
films: Erin Brokovitch, Tootsie, Pricilla Queen of the Desert, Ed
Wood, Shakespeare in Love, Mr. Mom
CE
Fate
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fate
Film: About Time, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Butterfly
Effect, Slumdog Millionaire
nonfiction: Tuesdays with Morrie
fiction: Cloud Atlas, Never Let Me Go
KM, CH, JB
Dystopia/
possible
futures/ future
alternative
worlds
Fiction: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Margaret Atwood's Madd Adam
triology, Brave New World, Farenheit 451, Clockwork Orange
Film: I am Legend, V for Vendetta, Mad Max, Soylent Green, Twelve
Monkeys, Minority Report, Blade Runner
nonfiction:
short stories: The Running Man (Stephen King),
EJ
Impact of sports https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/sports-fiction
on society
Anything by Feinstein
Nonfiction: Seabiscuit, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights (films loosely
based on these), The Fight, Jerry MacGuire
film: Field of Dreams, Trouble With the Curve, A League of Their
Own, Any Given Sunday, Hoosiers
MJ
Conqueror
nonfiction: Guns, Germs and Steel,
film: Gladiator,
KH
Drug addiction
Film: Half Nelson, Traffic, Winter's Bone, The Doors: When You're
Strange (or The Doors fictional film)
Fiction: A Million Little Pieces, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting,
Bright Lights Big City, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
BB, PP
Power
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
nonfiction:
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play: God of Carnage, Glengarry Glen Ross, Macbeth
Fiction: Atlas Shrugged, The Giver, The Outsiders, Speak
film: Citizen Kane, Whiplash, All The King's Men, The Last King of
Scotland
nonfiction: bury my heart at wounded knee
A Time to Kill; Lay that Trumpet in Your Hands, Night, The Souls of
Black Folk
play: Miss Evers' Boys, Light in August?, Emperor Jones?
Fiction: The Color Purple, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Help, Invisible
Man, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
film: Crash, Mississippi Burning, American History X, The Green Mile,
A Time to Kill, Malcolm X, Mexican White Boy
KB
Race/Racism
AC
Disease
fiction: The Andromeda Strain, Handle with Care, The Stand
film: The Fault in Our Stars, 28 Days Later, Contagion
EF
Philosophy
(knowledge)
JC
Satire
JG
Religion
NH
SH
Sexuality vs.
gender
bullying
TH
Perception
Locke - Sensory
Leibniz - Innate
Descartes - Doubt
Plato's Apology - Wisdom is something you do, not something one
has.
Play: Waiting for Godot,
Fiction: Siddhartha, the Metamorphisis, Atlas Shrugged
film: Examined Life, Inception, I Heart Huckabees, Being John
Malkovitch, The Truman Show
essay: A Modest Proposal
play: No Exit, Waiting for Godot
fiction: Catch-22, Thank You For Smoking, David Foster Wallace
film: Fight Club, Dr. Strangelove, Sunset Boulevard, This is...Spinal
Tap
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Play: Waiting for Godot, the last days of judas iscariot
Fiction: The poisonwood Bible
film: While Rider, Breaking The Waves, Spring Summer Fall Winter,
Life is Beautiful, Life of Pi
play: stop kiss, Top girls, uncommon women and others
film: War Zone, Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Boys Don't Cry
YA Lit - 13 Reasons Why
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/bullying
Fiction: Carrie
film: Karate Kid, Elephant, Mean Girls
play: the importance of being earnest, arcadia, the theory of
everything
film: Inception, Being John Malkovitch, Memento, Vanilla Sky, Big
Fish, Shutter Island
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MJ, EM, AC
Love knows no
bounds/ Love
fiction: Wuthering Heights
play: West Side Story
fiction: Love in the time of cholera (book and film), A Tale of Two
Cities, Anna Karenina, Time Traveler's Wife, Water for Elephants
film: Casablanca, Before Sunrise/Sunset, The English Patient, Ghost,
An Affair to Remember, The Way We Were
EM
Intelligence
RM
Choices
Film --> A Beautiful Mind, Good Will Hunting,
nonfiction: the science of finding things out, thinking fast and slow
Fiction: flowers for algernon
play: Hamlet
Film: Sophie's Choice
TR
Individual vs.
authority
The Castle by Franz Kafka
film: v for vendetta
RZ
Human impact
on the
environment
Film: An Inconvenient truth, Medicine Man
RK, NB
War
The Good Soldiers
All But My Life by Gerda Weissman-Klein
Film and Book (some): The Piano/Black Hawk Down/American
Sniper/Saving Private Ryan/In the Valley of Elah/Jarhead
non-fiction: Black Hawk Down, The Things They Carried
Non-fiction (film): Fog of War
fiction: All the Light we cannot see, Catch-22, slaughterhouse five, All
Quiet on the Western Front
SA
Individual vs.
Technology
YA lit = Feed
nonfiction: The Medium is the Message, AI
film: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Minority report, Wall-E
AM
Recovery/
Moving on from
major events
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/trauma
film: Ordinary People, This is Where I Leave You
SA
Journey
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (journey as a medium for
defining quality --> The experiential relationship between the self
and external world.
Fiction: Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, Alice's Adventures
through the Looking Glass, The Alchemist, Life of Pi, The Road
Nonfiction:
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film: Tracks,