SUMMER 2009 READING

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 PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance  (connect with TOK)

 

AP LITERATURE/COMPOSITION

            Alice SeboldThe 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.