SUMMER 2009
MARIAN HULSEY
IB ENGLISH II
Reading packet in preparation for
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka – “A Hunger Artist”
John Steinbeck – “The Harness”
Andrew Moss – “The Death of the
Hunger Artist”
Prentice
Hall Masterpieces of World Literature
Biographical material on Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
Background/biographical
information and short works by the world authors we will read this year
Ayn Rand – The
Fountainhead ($10000 essay contest next year)
Robert Pirsig
– Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (connect with
AP
LITERATURE/COMPOSITION
Alice Sebold
– The Lovely Bones
Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
Ayn Rand – The
Fountainhead ($10000 essay contest next year)
Robert
Pirsig -- Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Students will have
the reading list/schedules for next year and are encouraged to buy copies of
these books and to begin reading background and auxiliary materials to
accompany the individual works.