I’m waiting to hear about how the schedule is going to be organized for students going back to school before I give you the next assignment(s).
In any case, the next “phase” I will be using for you to get ahead on your summer reading The two books you will have to read this summer are: The Handmaid’s Tale, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
You may want to go ahead and order these off of Amazon now (check below for ISBN numbers).
Here is a PDF of The Handmaid’s Tale to help you get started: https://file.largepdf.com/file/2019/08/28/The%20Handmaid_s%20Tale.pdf
Below you will find a list of the four books that we will be studying for your OIB over the course of next school year. I suggest ordering them as soon as possible.
PROSE
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | Broché, Vintage Classics; Édition : 2 (5 avril 2018) | ISBN-10
1784874876 |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Penguin Classics (6 septembre 2007) | ISBN-10
9780141189208 |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | Flamingo; Édition : New Ed (1 mai 2000) | ISBN-10
0006551793 |
Note: We will be studying only five of Lahiri’s stories from the collection: “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” “Interpreter of Maladies” “This Blessed House” “The Treatment of Bibi Haldar” “The Third and Final Continent”
DRAMA
| Intimate Apparel | Lynn Nottage | Nick Hern Books (3 juillet 2014) | 184842437X |
All of these editions can easily be found by conducting a search on: www.amazon.fr
To complete the syllabus for the year we will also be studying selected poems by Robert Frost. Copies of these poems will be provided to you when the school year begins.
It is easier for you if you have the same edition of the book as presented on this list; page numbers and such. Careful if/when purchasing books abroad – they are often different.
Read through ALL of the works on the syllabus over the summer. You will need to read them several times over the course of the year in order to have the required understanding of each. Take advantage of your summer, you will thank yourself later.
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| At the rentrée, expect a reading test on all of the works, with special attention
to THE HANDMAID’S TALE and LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA. |
TIPS FOR READING:
- Buy a copy of each book and WRITE IN IT. I know this sounds scary, but it’s good for you. Come up with your own notation system. For example: circle words you don’t know, underline quotations that you like, « star » important passages, put « question marks » next to passages you don’t understand. Use different colors. INTERACTING with your book will help you to understand it.
- Do NOT look up every single word you do not know in the dictionary. You will become too overwhelmed. Read first for basic understanding, and mark down (underline, mark the page) the words you don’t know. Try to guess the meanings of the words based on the context, and if you can’t MOVE ON. When you have finished a chapter, go back and look up a few of the words you marked (not ALL of them!).
- DO NOT watch a movie version of the book. I repeat, DO NOT. If you are having trouble understanding, look up a summary of the book to give you an idea of what you are looking at, but do not rely on the internet/films to understand. If YOU do not do the work to understand, there is no way you will succeed.
Happy reading in the sunshine this summer!
YOU CAN DO THIS!!
Miss. Carpenzano