Section I Read the following two required books according to your grade for the 2008-2009 school year: English 9: (1) Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida and (2) When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. English 10 & English 10 Honors: (1)Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and (2)The Alchemist by Paul Coelho.IBSL Year 1: (1) A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and (2)The Awakening by Kate Chopin. IBSL Year 2: (1) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and (2) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.IBHL Year 1: (1) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and (2)The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh.IBHL Year 2: (1) Hamlet by William Shakespeare and (2)Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard.American Literature: (1) The Crucible by Arthur Miller and (2)Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Rhetoric & Composition:(1)Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and The Color of Water by James McBride.Contemporary Writers & Film Life of Pi by Yann Martel and (2)The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.Honors Seminar: (1) Aunt Julia and the ScriptwriterMario Vargas Llosa and (2)Night by Elie Wiesel.IB Theater Year 1: (1) God by Woody Allen and (2)The Open Door: Thoughts On Acting by Peter Brook.IB Theater Year 2: (1) True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by David Mamet and (2)Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer.Section II In addition, choose one of the titles from the GROUP BOOK SHELF (click on the link above)for your third book.
When choosing a book below, you can click on the book covers to see what the rest of the world thinks of the book or simply find one of your teachers below and read her or his personal recommendations for other ideas for summer reading. Shelfari lets you create a book list and purchase the books as well.
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