For all Première students:
Here are the books that you are required to read over the Summer vacation to be ready to start the BFI syllabus in September, regardless of who your teacher will be. Please make sure that you get the editions specified, and that you take notes whilst reading. Enjoy!
Please note, you will also be studying a poetry unit, and an essay by James Baldwin, but there is no need to purchase these works ahead of studying them in class.
 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde ISBN : 978-1472585202 |  Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage ISBN : 978-1848424371 |
Furthermore, according to the teacher you will have next year, you will study the following works either in Première or Terminale. In September, when you meet your new literature teacher, they will inform you. Meanwhile, you can still purchase the books. Please get the specified editions.
 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood ISBN : 978-1784874872 |  The Painter of Signs R. K. Narayan ISBN: 978-0143039662 |  Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe ISBN: 978-0435913502 |
For all Terminale students:
Here is the second half of your syllabus. Please get these specific editions.
Enjoy reading this summer!
The works below are two of our in-depth works. Please take notes whilst you read the works, write down any questions or queries you may have – these will fuel our class discussions. As for the poetry unit, you will discover these in class.
 The Tempest William Shakespeare Oxford Student Edition ISBN : 978-0198325000 |  The Things they Carried Tim O’Brien ISBN : 978-0544309760 |
