Book Project

Choose a book written by one of the Pulitzer Prize winners  or Nobel Prize Winners for literature. Use the book report format to write your book report and it is due on May 9th, 2007.

1. Click the Nobel Prize Winners for Literature
2. Click the Pulitzer Prize Winners for Literature. Look for a literary work listed under the category Letters, Drama & Music.

Based on the book you have read, do the following to complete your book project ( 8 items) 

| Review| Summary | Quotations | Character Analysis | Theme Analysis | A Letter to the Writer |Creative Response| Illustration |

A Book Project on  Tartuffe by Moliere (The Title and the author of the book )

1. Book Review:
   • Read an online review, i.e. from NYTimes.com. amazon.com sites .
   • Solicit words or phrases that you think best describe the book (a play in this cases).
   • Don't use paragraphs only key words or phrases.
   • Make sure to cite the sources (Last Name, First Name of the author; Title of the review article; website address (URL) of the article).
2. Write a poem to summarize the book. The poem should explain the following elements-

• setting-
• mood-
• main characters (names and descriptions) and events associated with them
• main conflicts
• the climax
• the conclusion

3.  My favorite quotations from the book-Five quotations (minimum) from the book that other readers must know, with interpretations (please include Act( chapter) , Scene and Line numbers, i.e. Act I, Scene 2, Lines 23-34)

4. Character analysis on one of the most important ( characters)

5. Theme Analysis

6. A letter to the writer (Letters about Literature)

7. A creative writing inspired by the book( poems, rap, your story, a song, a newspaper column, a talk show, an interview with the character, a dream, a missing scene, an after-life story, put the characters in a different setting and write a modern story or play to describe how they would act and interact)

8.An illustration of the book- a collage (such as character shield, character gallery, story quilt, climatic scene illustration)

9. Literary Connections:

•  Compare the character in the book with another character you have encountered in your reading ( in any genre-play, novel, short stories, and poetry). In what ways are they similar or different and why?
• In what ways does the literary work you read extol the morale of the society? Describe the morale of the society and select examples from the book to illustrate such morale.

Use the following websites as your resources for the project-

• Comparing a movie to a novel which inspired it
• Letters about Literature
• Literary Analysis Guide
• Money for Your Thoughts
• Writing about Literature
• Writing about Literature
• Writing a critique of a novel
• Writing papers of literary analysis