Upper School Library
Welcome to the English Language Library
in the Lycée International CDI!
Acceptable Use Policy:
This policy outlines the expectations of all students when using the technology resources provided by the school or in use for school projects, either in school or out of school, and when using personal technology resources while referencing any member or element of the American Section, the Lycée International, and its partner schools.
Research Tools and Guides:
Noodletools
Please click on the link above to access Noodle Tools. You must use your American Section email to do so. You may also access Noodle Tools by scrolling to the bottom of the GMail "waffle" grid once you are logged into your @americansection.org account.
Summer Reading:
We are excited to offer you the required and optional 2023 summer reading choices for History and English for incoming Upper School students. We are deeply committed to enriching language and culture in English, and we know from experience that reading is the most effective way to achieve these goals.
Rising Terminales
* Required reading:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Students should also read a book or research documents in preparation for their Connaissance du Monde mock oral in September.
* Choose at least one free choice read: Terminale Summer Reading
Rising Premières
* Required reading:
English: The Trial, by Franz Kafka (As this is a BFI text, students MUST read the Penguin edition ISBN: 9780241197790)
History: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (chapters 2-6 and 10-12)
PLUS TWO articles of your choice from the list below:
* Why the Past Ten Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid by Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic magazine, 2022
* The American Nightmare by Ibram Kendi, The Atlantic magazine, 2020
* The Change Within by Naomi Klein The Nation magazine, 2014
* The Fight to Vote by Ankita Raon, The Guardian newspaper, 2019
* The Health Care Crisis Hits Home by Karen Tumulty, Time magazine, 2009
* The Future of Abortion in post-Roe America by Jessica Bruder, The Atlantic magazine, 2022
* Girl by Alexander Chee, Guernica magazine, 2015
* The Innovation Wars: America’s Eroding Technological Advantage by Christopher Darby and Sarah Sewall, Foreign Affairs magazine, March-April 2021
* Choose at least one free choice read: Premiere Summer reading
Rising Secondes
* Required reading:
English: Nine Stories, by J. D. Salinger
History: watch the documentary Surviving Progress by H. Crooks and M. Roy
* Choose at least one free choice read: Seconde summer reading