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In English A L&L the SL students have been given these books so far:

- Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw (Enjoyable, funny at times, really liked it)

- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (I'd read it before, funny to see how the work was translated into English)

- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Very interesting, nice to read some African literature in English class for a change)

- Hamlet by Shakespeare (I'd read it before, but I saw a lot more interesting aspects of it this time since I tried to analyze it more)

The HL students have read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (funny, strong message) as well, but that's the only difference so far.

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In my year we read:

Brave New World, The Bluest Eye, The Merchant of Venice, Antigone

Crime and Punishment, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, House of the Spirits

The Bell Jar, Hamlet, The Mill on the Floss, a bunch of poems by John Donne

Hedda Gabler, Waiting for Godot, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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For World Lit:

Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems

Albert Camus - The Stranger, The Plague

Clarice Lispector - Family Ties, The Hour of the Star

Other- Mostly Plays:

Shakespeare - Hamlet

Orwell's Essays, 1984

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman

Margaret Atwood - A Handmaid's Tale

William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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World Lit:
kiss of the spider woman - manuel puig

paradise of the blind - duong thu huong

the assault - harry mulisch

bereft

the things they carried

timberlake wertenbaker; plays

macbeth

mules and men

there are others but i can't remember.
i'm doing my IOP on bereft so if anyone else has studied it, reply and we can get in touch! :)

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I just finished the course (English A HL Lang and Lit) and we were given:

World Lit/Texts in Translation:

Medea by Euripedes

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong

HL - Miss Julie by August Strindberg

IOC:

Othello by Shakespeare

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

HL - poems by T.S. Eliot

IOP:

The Fiftieth Gate by Mark Baker

The Island by Alistair McLeod

Poems by Gwen Harwood and Kenneth Slessor

Paper 2 (final exam):

Cosi

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Master Harold and the Boys

HL - Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

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We have done Kenneth Slessor poems (some were good others not as much), Othello (Surprising liked it, which is the first time I can say that for a Shakespeare play) and A handmaids tale by Margret Atwood (interesting, although it was slow and nothing really happened. It was a bit like a boring 1984)

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Junior year semester 1:

  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Collected essays

Junior year semester 2:

  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Ghosts
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