Thematic Study
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In a theme study students read books that were originally published in three different time periods but which have a common theme. They analyze commonalities and differences.
These themes have been approved for the Three Books Project. If you have an idea for another title or theme, please come and talk to me about it. The same title may appear in more than one theme.
Theme: War
Option One: Read books about three different wars. Compare and contrast attitudes.
Option Two: Read three books about the same war. Compare and contrast attitudes.
The Civil War
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
- Andersonville by MacKinlay Cantor
World War I
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
- One of Ours by Willa Cather
- Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
- The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
World War II
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Vietnam
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
- In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
- Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
- A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo