BFI HAPPY SUMMER READING!
Get ready for Ms Cardon's ACL class in September. Please buy both novels and read Things Fall Apart over the summer as your number 1 priority.
Reading assignments for the next 1ere and Terminale cohorts:
- THINGS FALL APART by CHINUA ACHEBE (1958)
Penguin Classics ISBN 978-0141182636 - will be studied in class September-Nov 2026
http://www.bookshybooks.com/2015/10/55-years-of-nigerian-literature-book.html
Take a look at this 'book cover tour' of the many book covers of TFA as a teaser!
- THE GREAT GATSBY by F.S. Fitzgerald (1925)
Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN 978 0 141 18688 7- will be studied in class Nov- Jan 2027
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210209-the-worlds-most-misunderstood-novel
Read the following article found on BBC news that says that noone really understood the novel especially when it came out!
And any other books you see fit!
Happy summer to all,
Ms Cardon