Apart, by Chinua Achebe. If you choose this IA, you will report on your extra reading for the class. This would be particularly appropriate for someone who has read or studied the main text before. As we begin each text, I will ask someone to give us a little background on the author. You can look this up in the library or you can often find the information you need on the internet.
Websites exist for many of our texts, especially the main texts.
Along the way, we'll need information on a number of concepts important to literature, such as tragedy, Gothic novel, and so on. And So On . . .