Your final journal assignment is to complete this two-part questionnaire.  Part I asks which of the following British, European and American authors you have read--and which you would recommend as required reading in a future English 253 course.  Part II asks for honest criticism of this semester's course.
 

Your name:_______________________

Part I
Instructions: Either a) print this webpage and check the appropriate boxes, or b) read the table below and indicate on separate paper which authors and books you have read, which you recommend, and which you do not recommend.

 

Author	Title	Have Read	Do Recommend	Don't recommend
British
Aphra Behn	Oroonoko
Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe	Moll Flanders
Samuel Richardson	Pamela
Henry Fielding	Joseph Andrews
Fanny Burney	Evelina
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen	Emma
Mary Shelley	Frankenstein
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens	Hard Times
Charles Dickens	Great Expectations
Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Lewis Carroll	Alice in Wonderland
Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure
Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes Stories
James Joyce	short stories from Dubliners
Joseph Conrad	Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness
Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway
D. H. Lawrence	Lady Chatterley’s Lover
E. M. Forster	A Passage to India
J.R.R. Tolkien	The Hobbit
George Orwell	1984
George Orwell	Animal Farm
Other Brits?
European
Voltaire	Candide
Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary
Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Christo
Albert Camus	The Plague
Albert Camus	The Stranger
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment
Ivan Turgenev	Fathers and Sons
Anton Chekhov	Any short stories?
Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Other Europeans?
American
Washington Irving	Any stories?
James Fenimore   Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans
Mark Twain	Huck Finn
Mark Twain	Tom Sawyer
Herman Melville	Moby Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stephen Crane	Red Badge of Courage
Upton Sinclair	The Jungle
Kate Chopin	The Awakening
Henry James	A Turn of the Screw
F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby
Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence
Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls
William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Slaughterhouse Five
Richard Wright	Native Son
James Baldwin	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Toni Morrison	Any??
Other Americans?
Other nationalities?

 
Part II
Instructions: Respond.  Be honest, be helpful.

1) What were the strengths of this course?
 
 
 

2) How could the use of "journals" be improved?
 
 
 

3) How could class discussion be improved?
 
 
 

4) Would you prefer occasional "group work" during classtime as a means of stimulating discussion?  Why or why not?
 
 
 

5) Do you think daily or weekly readings quizzes are a good idea, and why?
 
 
 

6)  Other suggestions for improving this course?
 
 
 
 
 
 

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