May 18, 2016
International Baccalaureate High Year Level Year
2 Students of 2016-2017:
Your 2016 summer reading assignment is to read and
thoroughly annotate Gabriel Garcia-Marquez’s One Hundred
Years of Solitude. It is largely regarded as the Noble Prize
winner’s greatest work.
At 417 pages in the most common edition there is tremendous
density of storytelling for the reader to absorb, although the
book is easy to read and generally a student favorite. I highly
recommend you pace your reading of this book carefully.
A thoroughly annotated copy from each student will earn a
summative grade and there will also be a summative reading
comprehension test on the first day that class meets, which will
be either August 4th or 5th, depending the schedule set by the
administration.
I will be available for help and discussion facilitation this
summer under a forum on itsLearning under the SFHS Student
Group.
If you have any questions before the end of the school year,
please feel free to come see me or email me at
mthompson@forsyth.k12.ga.us .
Sincerely,
Mr. Thompson
IB Literature HL 2nd Year Teacher