"Generic" High School Literature Essay Questions

While looking for a way to give my high schooler some challenging essay questions based on literature readings without spending a small fortune on study guides, I stumbled across this site called eNotes. The link below will take you to the search page which lists 6 different “Literature Essay Prompts”. Each question is based on a quote and asks the student to choose a character(s) from their reading to apply that quote to, focusing on such topics as gratitude, forgiveness, state of mind, etc. You can use any book that your student is reading. I did not read through all of the prompts yet, but what I did read through seem to be thought-provoking and challenging.

I did need to sign-up (free membership) in order to download the single-page PDF files. They do have other study guides, but those require a paid membership. Looks like there might be other useful things on this site, but I haven’t explored it too thoroughly yet.

Perhaps these essay prompts will be helpful to some of you, as well.

http://www.enotes.com/search?q=generic+literature+essay+questions&start=0

Kim

If the link doesn’t work, just search “eNotes” on search engine and at the site search “Literature Essay Prompts”