Possible Topics
1.
2.
The aspects of Feminism in the
novels of Charlotte Bronte.
The evolvement of women’s rights
from its earliest conception
Possible Literature
or Authors
Jane Eyre,
Shirley, Villette
Pamela by
Samuel
Richardson, of
D’Ubervilles
Thomas Hardy,
Thousand and
One Nights
Dostoevsky,
Twain, Milton,
Shakespeare,
The Jungle by
Upton Sinclair,
1984 by George
Orwell, Brave
New World by
Aldois Huxley,
Animal Farm, Cry
The Beloved
Country By Alan
Paton
of Darkness by
Joseph Conrad,
The Things They
Carried and
Going After
Cacciato by Tim
O’Brian,
Possible Fieldwork
Work for a woman
rights organization,
Work for a woman
rights organization,
3.
Oedipus theme in literature
Counseling; boys
and girls club,
Volunteer at local
churches,
4.
Religious themes in fiction
5.
Social and political propaganda in
:Literature
6.
The Vietnam War as it is reflected in
contemporary fiction
7.
The depiction of women in the novels
of Emily Bonte and Jane Austen
Pride and
Prejudice,
Wuthering Heights,
Sense and
Sensibility
8.
Career or motherhood as it is
reflected in the poetry of Adrienne
Rich
The Fact of a Doorframe:
Poems 1950-2001, New
Edition,
Adrienne Rich's Poetry
and Prose (Norton
Critical Editions
Work for a woman
rights organization,
9.
Aldous Huxley’s drug experience and
its relationship to his writing
10.
Analyzing the blues as poetic
Crome Yellow,
Point Counter
Point, and Do
What You Will
The music of Etta
Volunteer at MADD,
Say No to Drugs,
See campus drug
counselor
Write your own book
Volunteer at a
political
organization, Create
a unit for a history
teacher, create
propaganda artwork
in connection with
the literature
Volunteer at a
political
organization, Create
a unit for a history
teacher, create
propaganda artwork
in connection with
the literature
Work for a woman
rights organization,
literature
11.
Compare the structures and common
themes in the sonnet’s of:
12.
The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on
contemporary writers
13.
Characteristics of the Theatre of the
Absurd and why its still popular
today
14.
Father and son relationships in the
dramas of Arthur Miller
15.
Different views of morality in
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Societies view of orphaned children
in literary works
16.
James, Billy
Holiday, Nancy
Wilson, Muddy
Waters, BB King,
Bessie Smith
Petrarch,
Shakespeare, John
Donne and John
Milton
Dean Koontz,
Stephen King
of poetry that
exemplifies blues
Write their own book
of sonnets which
illustrates each of the
formats
Write a short story
that epitomizes the
style of Poe
Samuel Becket,
Write their own play
Luigi Pirandello,
emulating the style
Eugene Ionesco,
of one of the
Edward Albee
absurdist writers,
Create a piece of art
that emulates the
style of the Absurd
A Memory of Two Volunteer at an
Monday’s, All My organization that
Sons
works with young
children and teens
Canterbury Tale’s Volunteer at local
churches,
The Kite Runner by Volunteer at an
Khaled Hosseini., A organization that
Christmas Carol,
works with young
David Copperfield, children and teens
Tale of Two Cities,
and Great
Expectations by
Charles Dickens
17.
Mark Twain has been accused of
racism in Huckleberry Finn, Analyze
these charges and decided whether or
not the novel should be taught in high
school.
18.
Investigate literature banned from
high school and take a stand
19.
Investigate literature banned by
Of Mice and Men,
I know Why the
Caged Bird Sing,
To Kill a
Mockingbird, The
Color Purple
The Chocolate
War,
Slaughterhouse
Five, Catcher in
the Rye, Lord of
the Flies,
Grapes of Wrath,
Create a unit for a
teacher, volunteer at
an organization that
promotes equityhabitat for humanity
Attend school site
counsel meetings,
school board
meetings, interview
administrators,
students or teacher
surveys
Attend school site
governments or religious institutions
and take a stand
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, Gulliver’s
Travels,
20.
How Mentally Ill are stereotyped in
literature
One Flew Over
the Cuckoo Nest,
Jane Eyre, The
Bell Jar, Madame
Bovary, I Never
Promised You a
Rose Garden
21.
Gothic Elements in the Fiction of
Washington Irving. Select 5
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow
The Devil and Tom
Walker
The Birds of Spring
Recollections of The
Alhambra
The Abencerrage
The Enchanted Island
The Adelantado of the
Seven Cities
National
Nomenclature
Desultory Thoughts
on Criticism
Spanish Romance
The Legend of Don
Munio Sancho de
Hinojosa
Communipaw
Conspiracy of the
Cocked Hats
A Legend of
Communipaw
The Bermudas
The Count van Horn
Pelayo and the
Merchant's Daughter
The Knight of Malta
The Legend of the
Engulphed Convent
Create a piece of art,
music, clothing, or
architecture in the
gothic style
22.
Read several of William Faulkner’s
As I Lay Dying;
Novels and discuss his attitudes of the The Sound and the
South.
Fury; Absalom,
Absalom; A Light
in August,
Attitudes toward death in the Iliad
Illiad and the
compared to those expressed in the
Odyssey
Odyssey
Compare and contrast the poetry of
Carl Sanburg,
Create a song or
piece of artwork, or
video depicting
southern values and
traditions
Volunteer at hospital
or assisted living
facility
Create a piece of art,
23.
24.
counsel meetings,
school board
meetings, interview
administrators,
students or teacher
surveys, volunteer at
a political
organization
Volunteer at hospital
or assisted living
facility
Carl Sanburg and Robert Frost
Robert Frost
25.
Good and Evil as depicted in the
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
26.
Allegory and Symbolism in Louis
Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
27.
Guilt and damnation in the stories of
Kafka
Alice in
Wonderland by
Louis Carroll
The Trial, The
Castle, In the
Penal Colony
28.
Exploitations of Minorities in
Literature
Ralph Ellison. Toni
Morrison, Alice
Walker, Rudolfo A.
Anaya, Victor
Villasenor, Barbara
Kingsolver, Richard
Wright,
29.
Levels of meanings in Dante’s
Inferno
Dante’s Inferno
30.
Literary Style of an Author
31.
The detective story
James Joyce,
Ernest
Hemingway,
William Faulkner,
Joseph Conrad
Agatha Christie,
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, John
Grisham
32.
The element of horror in literature
Edgar Allan Poe,
Stephen King,
33.
Societies treatment of the elderly in
literature
The Sandbox, The
Kitchen God’s
Wife and The
music that reflects
the tone expressed in
the poetry
Create a piece of art,
music that reflects
the tone expressed in
the Heart of
Darkness
Write your own
allegory
Create a piece of art,
music that reflects
the tone expressed by
Kafka, Film a trial
based on one of the
novels
Take a class in
Chicano or minority
studies,
Produce a piece of
art that reflects the
various levels of hell
depicted in Dante’s
Inferno
Write a short story,
play, or film a short
movie that emulates
the style of the
author
Write a short story,
play, or film a short
movie that emulates
the style of the
author
Write a short story,
play, or film a short
movie that emulates
the style of the
author
Volunteer at hospital
or assisted living
facility
34.
The impact of tragic events upon the
individual in literature
35.
The impact of science fiction on
technology
Bonesetter’s
Daughter Amy
Tan, The Good
Earth by Pearl
Buck
Oedipus Rex,
Native Son,
Fahrenheit 4551,
Macbeth, Les
Miserable, Ethan
Frome, The Kite
Runner
Ray Bradbury,
George Orwell,
Isaac Asimov,
Richard Heinlein
Volunteer for a
church group, boys
and girls club, pink
ribbon club,
Write a short story,
play, or film a short
movie that emulates
the science fiction
style