Study Questions on American Literature: Index

Written and adapted from various sources
by Dr. Tina L. Hanlon

Associate Professor of English
Ferrum College

General Guidelines for Reading
and Analyzing Literature

General Guidelines for Writing
Literature Papers

Study Questions

Picture Book Assignment
"A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett	Poems by Emily Dicknson
The Awakening by Kate Chopin	Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane	"Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poems by T. S. Eliot	Poems by Robert Frost
Poems by ee cummings and Carl Sandburg	"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
Poems by Allen Ginsberg	Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin	The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
"The School" by Barthelme	(Study Questions on The Glass Menagerie were distributed in class.)

For American Literature II
(English 206 at Ferrum College)

Course Schedule
2001

Guidelines for Paper 2
on a Novel or Play - 2001

What Do You Think?

If you have suggestions for new study questions, or online resources that my students should consult, click here to send them to me: Dr. Tina L. Hanlon. If you are in my literature class, the suggestions you send, or your answers to any of the questions, will count as part of your informal writing for the course.

Other Links

AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature

Academic Resources Center

ARC Tutoring Center

Ferrum College Writing Center

Stanley Library at Ferrum College

Pointers for Taking Essay Tests

Other Courses:

British Literature 362: 1798-1890
British Literature II 204
Appalachian Literature 207
Literature for Children & Adolescents 301
World Folktales and Literature 207