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Individual Home Reading (IHR) 2
- Please choose one of the books described in this (updated) PDF file and let me know which one you have chosen by filling in this online form.
The deadline is set for Monday, 11 January 2016.
- Please keep in mind that you cannot choose a book you have already read (in class or at home) and that I won't allow more than four students to read the same book (books from Individual Home Reading 1 included) - once again first come, first served!
The following books CANNOT be chosen although they might be on the list:
Brown, Christie: My Left Foot
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Green, Graham: Dr Fischer of Geneva
Green, John: Looking For Alaska
Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
Moore, Brian: Lies of Silence
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Prejean, Sister Helen: Dead Man Walking
Rhue, Morton: The Wave
Shaffer, Peter: Amadeus
Individual Home Reading (IHR) 1
When your name appears next to the book you have chosen you can go ahead and buy the book and start reading and taking notes. Bring the book to class on Monday, 19th October. There will be oral exams on the book you have chosen starting on 9th December 2015. See below for details:
| 9/12/2015 (E23) | 10/12/2015 (B46) | 16/12/2015 (E23) | 17/12/2015 (B22) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:25 Daniel 10:35 Remo 10:45 Salome 10:55 Pablo 11:10 Romain 11:20 Kira 11:30 Sandro 11:40 Nandor | 13:50 Christina 14:00 Sebastian 14:10 Jan 14:20 Michael | 10:25 Tabea 10:35 Lotte 10:45 Rahel 10:55 Florian 11:10 Samuel 11:20 Tobias 11:30 Nathalie 11:40 Vera | 13:50 Leonie 14:00 Alessandro |
J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (South Africa, 1999): A professor at a South African university is fired because he seduced a student, so he withdraws to his daughter's farm in the country, where he realises that he is not able to protect her. (Alessandro)
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (Nigeria, 1958): Story about life in African society and the changes when the white people arrive. (Sebastian, Christina)
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (UK, 1931): Life in a future world dominated by genetic engineering. (Samuel, Tobias, Florian)
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (USA, 1951): The story of a boy who runs away from boarding school only to find out that there is no escaping: not from school, not from life and ultimately not from growing up either. (Rahel, Lotte, Tabea)
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (UK, 1847): A young woman works as governess for a man, falls in love with him and discovers his secret. (NB: this book is almost 500 pages) (Vera, Nathalie)
T.C. Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain (USA, 1995): While an American couple enjoys a wealthy lifestyle, another couple is fighting to stay alive as illegal Mexican migrants. An accident brings their two worlds colliding together. (Michael, Leonie, Jan)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies (UK, 1954): A group of boys survives a plane crash on an island somewhere in the Pacific, no adult survives the crash, the boys are by themselves - and Golding shows what happens. (Romain, Nandor, Sandro, Kira)
Brian Moore: Lies of Silence (UK, 1990): The plot revolves around Michael Dillon, who is faced with a dilemma after being held hostage. The novel focuses on the personal effects of The Troubles, a period of ethnic, religious and political conflict in Northern Ireland. (Pablo, Remo, Salome, Daniel)
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