OIB (BRITISH OPTION) SYLLABUS 2011-2013


Written Examination

Prose    Lloyd Jones – Mister Pip (John Murray)    1ère
Poetry    Emily Dickinson (Everyman Poetry)    1ère
Drama    Alan Bennett – The History Boys (Faber)    1ère


Oral Examination

Shakespeare    Richard II  (New Cambridge)    Te

Synoptic Topic: Writers and the Victorian World
    Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)    1e
    John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Vintage Classics)    Te
    Selected Poems (Photocopies Provided)    1e and Te


N.B.
Please buy the books for both years of the programme now as the order in which you study them may change.
It is essential that you respect the recommended edition
Please read the books for 1ère over the summer.
You will be starting in September with Great Expectations.

 

OIB (AMERICAN OPTION) SYLLABUS 2011– 2013


Shakespeare    Core + in depth:
Hamlet (New Cambridge)    Te

19th/20th century novels    

a) Core:
The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison (Vintage)    1e
b) Free choice + In depth
The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin)    Te

19th/20th century drama

a) Core:
Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller (Penguin)     1e
b) Free choice:
A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee Williams (Methuen Drama)   1e

19th/20th century poetry

a) Core:
William Carlos Williams (photocopies provided)    1e
b) Free choice + in-depth:
Robert Frost  (Oxford)    Te

World Literature
(may be in translation)

a) Core:
Medea: Euripides (Cambridge University Press)    1e
b) Free choice:
Hedda Gabler: Ibsen (Methuen)    1e
c) Free choice
Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka (Penguin)    1e
d)) Free choice:
Things fall Apart: Achebe (Penguin)    1e

Non-fiction

a) Core:
Letter From Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King (photocopies provided) 1e
b) Free choice:
Civil Disobedience: Thoreau (Penguin)    1e


N.B. Please buy the books for both years of the program now as the order in which you study them may change.
It is essential that you respect the recommended edition.

Please read the books for 1ère over the summer.
You will be starting in September with Things Fall Apart and Hedda Gabler.