IB Agenda 8/28 – 8/29 IBSO Presentation

IB Agenda 8/28 – 8/29 IBSO Presentation
Learner profile and introductions TOK question discussions continued Course overview Social contract Study skills survey Homework: Diagnostic due 9/4(A Day), 9/3 (B Day)

Literature TOK Questions
Is a work of literature enlarged or diminished by interpretation? What makes something a good or bad interpretation? How can a literary work of fiction, which is by definition non-factual, convey knowledge? What is the proper function of literature—to capture a perception of reality, to teach or uplift the mind, to express emotion, to create beauty, to bind a community together, to praise a spiritual power, to provoke reflection or to promote social change? Does familiarity with literature itself provide knowledge and, if so, of what kind—knowledge of facts, of the author, of the conventions of the form or tradition, of psychology or cultural history, of oneself? What knowledge of literature can be gained by focusing attention on the author? Can, or should, authors’ intentions and the creative process itself be understood through observing authors or knowing something of their lives? Is the creative process as important as the final product, even though it cannot be observed directly? Are an author’s intentions relevant to assessing the work? Can a work of art contain or convey meaning of which the artist is oblivious? What knowledge of literature can be gained by focusing attention solely on the work itself, in isolation from the author or the social context? What knowledge of literature can be gained by focusing attention on its social, cultural or historical context? How important is the study of literature in individual/ethical development? In what ways? What constitutes good evidence within the study of literature? What knowledge can be gained from the study of literature? What is lost in translation from one language to another? Why? Can literature express truths that cannot be expressed in other ways? If so, what sort of truths are these? How does this form of truth differ from truth in other areas of knowledge?

IB Learner Profile As IB learners we strive to be: inquirers
knowledgeable thinkers communicators principled open-minded caring risk-takers balanced reflective.

Active and Independent Learners
develop their natural curiosity explore concepts exercise initiative independently explore new roles and ideas express ideas confidently and creatively.

IB Agenda 9/2 Warm-up: Journal: What are the gender expectations of your place, time, and/or ethnicity and how do they affect your life? Essay assignment The Awakening cultural context project. See my website. Share results. How does the cultural and historical perspective on women’s roles inform your understanding of The Awakening?

IB Agenda 9/4 - 5 Warm-up: Write a list of five things you did last weekend in chronological order. Finish presenting on the background of The Awakening How does the cultural and historical perspective on women’s roles inform your understanding of The Awakening? Write a paragraph reflecting on a specific action that a character takes and how it fits into the context of gender relations around Use a quote from the text to support your answer. Plot and point of view: Chronicle to story

IB SAT Warm-up 9/8-9/9 Fill in the blanks with the pair of word that makes sense in the sentence.
Because King Philip's desire to make Spain the dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeth's insistence on autonomy for England, was (A) reconciliation . . assured (B) warfare . . avoidable (C) ruination . . impossible (D) conflict . . inevitable (E) diplomacy . . simple

Agenda 9/8-9/9 Goal: Understand and employ strategies to create character, theme, plot and point-of-view. SAT Warm-Up Literary elements discussion Impossible Cortes story

IB Agenda 9/10-9/11 Warm-Up: Describe a place of your choice using sensory language. Use your voice (diction, syntax, sound, figurative language) to create a distinct mood and tone. Introduce minor characters project Minor character selection Timeline and symbolism

IB Agenda 9/12-15 Warm-up – Setting, mood and tone
Discuss thesis statements and essay structure Analyze essay structure Outline essays

Warm-up. How does the author use voice, tone, mood and description to create a sense of place? What can you infer about the narrator and what the story will be like? In LA, you can’t do anything unless you drive. Now I can’t do anything unless I drink. And the drink-drive combination, it really isn’t possible out there. If you so much as loosen your seatbelt or drop your ash or pick your nose, then it’s an Alcatraz autopsy with the questions asked later. Any indiscipline, you feel, any variation, and there’s a bullhorn, a set of scope sights, and a coptered pig drawing a bead on your rug. So what can a poor boy do? You come out of the hotel, the Vraimont. Over boiling Watts the downtown skyline carries a smear of God’s green snot. You walk left, you walk right, you are a bank rat on a busy river. This restaurant serves no drink, this one serves no meat, this one serves no heterosexuals. You can get your chimp shampooed, you can get your dick tattooed, twenty-four hour, but can you get lunch? An should you see a sign on the far side of the street flashing BEEF- BOOZE- NO STRINGS, then you can forget it. The only way to get across the road is to be born there. All the ped-xing signs say DON’T WALK, all of them, all the time. That is the message, the content of Los Angeles: don’t walk. Stay inside. Don’t walk. Drive. Don’t walk. Run! I tried the cabs. No use. The cabbies are all Saturnians who aren’t even sure whether this is a right planet or a left planet. The first thing you have to do, every trip, is teach them how to drive. MARTIN AMIS Money (1984)

Analytical Essays and Thesis Statement
You will take either a text based stance (builds an argument by focusing on specific features of the literary text in question) or a context based stance (builds an argument by focusing on the context in which a literary text exists). Thesis should make a claim about the work that is arguable, specific and manageable (can be proven in the appropriate amount of space. It should have a statement and a comment - an observation and a why or how.

Thesis templates Next, let’s create a thesis statement. Just plug in your meaning and your technique(s): (here are 3 different versions) In this story, the author uses ______ and _______ to reveal __________. In ____________ by ____________, the author seeks to _______________ by/through _________________. In _____________, Gary Soto examines ___________ through his use of __________ and __________.

Thesis Statement – Your thesis should make a claim about the work that is arguable, specific and manageable (can be proven in the appropriate amount of space. It should have a statement and a comment - an observation and a why , a how, or an explanation of why it is important. Are these good thesis statements, and if not, how can they be changed. In “Snow White,” attractive women are depicted as helpless and men are so enthralled by helplessness as to appear necrophiliac. In The Awakening, the ocean functions as a symbol of both freedom and death, demonstrating Chopin’s belief that in the oppressive society of the Gilded Age, women can only achieve liberation through social suicide. Mademoiselle Reisz expresses the preoccupations of the Victorian era in her music. While Edna’s servants in The Awakening, are largely unnamed and rarely discussed, their existence is pivotal because they provide a critique of Edna’s middle class pre-occupation with herself, suggesting that for nonwhite women of the lower classes, self-actualization is not even an option.

Paragraph Template Topic Sentence (supports thesis)
Direct quote (evidence from story) Explain first example (commentary: explain HOW that method/technique conveys that meaning) Introduce second example Give second direct quote Explain second example Concluding sentence If you are using outside sources, you will be using them to comment on and contextualize the primary text.

Analytical Paragraph For example, “ “
Commentary (explain WHAT is happening in the story at this time) Connection: (explain HOW this example shows the concept in your thesis) Another example “ “ Connection (explain HOW this example shows the concept in your thesis) Conclusion (a big picture observation about the story and the concept) *Use Quote Introduction worksheet to integrate your quotes. YOU MUST INTRODUCE A QUOTE. CM: “Here,...” CN: “Therefore” “This shows” “As such,” “Consequently,”

(A) incredulity . . misconstrued (B) ebullience . . tempered
SAT Warm-up: Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Write the sentence correctly in your journal. Dahntay’s over winning the prestigious prize was only by the fact that his father was unable to attend the ceremony. (A) incredulity . . misconstrued (B) ebullience . . tempered (C) bashfulness . . extended (D) satisfaction . . confirmed (E) relief . . conveyed

IB Agenda 9/16-17 Goals: Construct effective analytical thesis statements and body paragraphs. Warm-up Group thesis critiques Peer editing Writing/Revision time

IB Agenda 9/19 HAPPY INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY
SAT Warm-Up Grade report sheets Work day – you may work on your paper or work on your presentation if your paper is complete. Please keep conversations fairly quiet so that others can write. I am happy to meet with you to go over drafts, outlines or thesis statements or to talk about your project. You may not do work for any other class. I will also be calling you up to check proposals. Return essays For next class: Final draft, outline, peer edit, first draft

SAT Warm-up 9/18 Writing > Improving Sentences
Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. Like machinery was integral to the development of industrial capitalism, so the rapid transfer of information is the force driving modern business. (A) Like (B) Given that (C) Since (D) Just as (E) Although

Creative Presentation Examples

To Be in Love by Gwendolyn Brooks

SAT Warm-Up Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. The senator chose to incur dislike rather than her principles to win favor with the public. (A) gratify (B) endorse (C) accuse (D) compromise (E) advertise

IB Agenda 9/22-23 Goals: Editing for wordiness, creating effective creative presentations Edit and turn in papers – Simplicity and Clutter Include final drafts, first draft, outline and peer edit. Final draft should be on top Examples of presentations and scoring Work on presentations

SAT Question of the Day 9/25 – 9/26
The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. (A)When people gave up the hunter-gatherer way of life and began to cultivate the soil and grow their food, they often (B) became less mobile, built more substantial residences, and (C)they developed (D)more effective means of storage. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) No error

IB Agenda 9/25 Great Gatsby IOP
Work on creative projects/presentations. You should be ready to present on Wednesday. No exceptions! Please let me know if you need any special equipment. For next time: Creative project, presentation, rationale, and presentation planning sheet/materials are due. If your creative project can be printed, please print it. Otherwise, be sure you send it to me or give me a location where it can be found. You may turn in one presentation, rationale and planning sheet per group, but all group members full names must be on each sheet.

SAT Warm-Up 9/26 - 29 Critical Reading > Sentence Completions
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Mr. Warmington considered himself a connoisseur of fine wines, claiming he could variations in taste and quality among any range of vintages he was served. (A) purvey (B) discern (C) efface (D) mollify (E) debate

IB Agenda 10/3 No warm-up - Presentations
Give me a grading sheet with all group members full names. Fill out the “where is my project sheet” for group members. Use all group members full names. Presentations – volunteers then random order. After you do your presentation, please give me all remaining materials in your packet. If you have already done your presentation and not given them to me, please do so today. Also, double check that supporting materials are where you said they are. Missing essays: Mithra, Alyssa, Eduardo, Savannah, Alejandra and Lindsay. Missing essays not sent to me by Saturday at 8 pm will not be accepted and are likely to result in a failing grade! After you have looked over your essays, please return them to me unless you plan to revise.

IB Agenda 10/6 1. Writers Journal: Who do you think influences you the most: your family, your community or your experiences? Go to and read about figures of speech. Then take the quiz on: Then go to the Zorah Neale Hurston Webquest on my website. Find 2-3 partners, divide websites you will explore, and share notes. For next class: Read Chapters 1-4 in Their Eyes Were Watching God and write 3 discussion questions that have to do with voice, style, figurative language, or how the story is told.

SAT Question of the Day Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. Archaeological evidence shows that Viking ships were lighter, slimmer, and faster than that in England. (A) that in England (B) they had in England (C) they had been in England (D) those used by the English (E) that of the English

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
(Noun) (prepositional phrase) (verb) (adverb) (adjective) (noun) (prepositional phrase) For some they come in with the tide. (prepositional phrase) (noun/noun pronoun) (prepositional phrase) For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out (contrasting prepositional phrase) (same noun or pronoun) (verb) (adverbial phrase), (adverbial phrase), (adverbial phrase) of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by time. That is the life of men. Now women forget all those things they don’t want to remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. They act and do things accordingly.

SAT Question of the Day The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. Wynton Marsalis (A)emerged as one of the great trumpeters (B)of the late twentieth century, (C)winning Grammy awards for both his jazz (D)and even classical works. (E)No error (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

IB Agenda 10/14 Sentence Imitation
Learn about how author’s use voice and figurative language Style – imitate structure Style – Examples of figurative language/effect Metonymy, chiasmus, synecdoche, antithesis, anaphora, irony – situational, dramatic and verbal, extended metaphors, similes and analogies. On page ___, Hurston uses to do . Discussion

IB 2nd 6 Weeks Unit Objective
Students will learn how to analyze and imitate an author’s style and use of figurative language. In response to a complex prompt, students will be able to write a well-constructed analytical essay that supports a thesis with cogent textual references and commentary.

Warm Up: Write your own sentence in which you mimic Hurston’s grammatical structure as closely as possible. Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. (Noun) (prepositional phrase) (verb) (adverb) (adjective) (noun) (prepositional phrase). EX: Cats in my house know all my secret thoughts through ESP.

We will analyze this passage as a group using the “Elements of Literary Style Handout at the back of Your Packet. Write your own 2 paragraph composition in which you use Hurston’s style and an extended metaphor to contrast 2 groups. Use chiasmus, antithesis, and anaphora if you can. Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by time. That is the life of men. Now women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. They act and do things accordingly.

Discussion Questions. Answer and give a specific reference for each.
How do sex and love inspire artistic works and life changes? How do we make so much out of this one area of life? What is the mechanism?

In his review of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Richard Wright, a Harlem Renaissance wrote:
Miss Hurston voluntarily continues in her novel the tradition which was forced upon the Negro in the theatre, that is, the minstrel technique that makes the "white folks" laugh. Her characters eat and laugh and cry and work and kill; they swing like a pendulum eternally in that safe and narrow orbit in which America likes to see the Negro live: between laughter and tears. Is this criticism fair?

Discussion Questions. Answer and give a specific reference for each.
How do sex and love inspire artistic works and life changes? How do we make so much out of this one area of life? What is the mechanism?

What does an audience contribute to a story?

How does the town of Eatonville function as chorus
How does the town of Eatonville function as chorus? Are there multiple “choirs”. When are specific examples of times they are wise, foolish, thematically appropriate, symbolic, etc. What are some different things they represent.

What does Janie’s family history of slavery have to do with her first choice of husband?

Was Joe a better choice than Logan?

What symbols do you see and how are they developed?

Chapter 1 Question Select Quotes from the Text that Support Your Answer
Chapter 1 Questions: Select quotations from the text that support your answers. 1. Hurston begins the book with an extended metaphor. What are the dreams of men? How are they different from the dreams of women? Who doesn’t get disappointed?

Chapter 1 The first two pages are loaded with figurative language, as though Hurston was writing poetry in book form. What is the effect of this? Is it hard to understand? What is the effect of having to work a little harder to understand all the layers of her opening pages?

Chapter 2 Janie’s scene with the pear tree is gentle and lovely. Compare this to the description of Nanny as a different kind of tree. Discuss the description of Nanny and how the different symbols affect you.

Chapter 3 1. Why does Hurston start the chapter, “There are years that ask question and years that answer.” How does this anticipate the rest of the chapter?

Chapter 4 4. Look at the imagery surrounding Janie and Joe’s meeting: If Joe does not “represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon,” why does Janie go with him? What changed, if anything? What is the tone here?

Chapter 5 How would you describe Amos’ and Lee’s purpose in the novel so far? How are they characterized?

Chapter 6 1. In this chapter, Hurston uses dialect to be funny. Was Richard Wright correct when he criticized her and said it sounds like a minstrel show?

SAT Warm-Up 10/16 The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. Beluga whales, (A)which are also called sea canaries (B)because of their high-pitched chirps and gregarious natures, are the only animals (C)known mimicking the sounds( D)of human speech spontaneously. (E)No error (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Agenda 10/ Goals: Analyze style, language, character and theme in Their Eyes Were Watching God Warm-up Assign questions and analytic essay/ explain graded discussion Close reading passage 84-87/Style Questions Direct and Indirect Discourse Discussion questions

Chapter 6 3. The mule scene is rather famous. How does Hurston personify the mule? Why does Hurston do this?

Chapter 7 1. What finally makes Janie stand up to Jody in public? What changed?

IB Warm-up 10/17 Look at the first paragraph in Chapter 14. You will be writing one paragraph in which you analyze it and a second in which you use it as a model. You will have 7 minutes to write each of these paragraphs. Please write them on a separate piece of paper. Step 1: Write a one paragraph analysis of the style of this passage and the effect it creates. Be sure to address 3 of the areas on the “style checklist” we used last time. You might start out: In this paragraph, Hurston uses X, Y, and Z to highlight Step 2: Write a paragraph about Halloween night in the style of this paragraph.

Agenda 10/ Goals: Analyze style as it relates to character and theme; Develop listening, speaking and close reading skills. Style analysis and imitation paragraphs Graded discussion

Their Eyes Were Watching God Graded Discussion Chapters 8-13
I will project questions and give two minutes to think about each one. To receive full credit for an answer, you must back it up with specific references to the text. This is a discussion you are having with your classmates, so interact with them rather than with me. You may agree or disagree with them, expand on their points or introduce another perspective. Grading standards 3+ exceptionally insightful answers = 100 3+ fully supported answers = 90 2 exceptionally insightful answers = 80 2 fully supported answers = 70 1 exceptionally insightful answer = 60 1 fully supported answer = 50

Chapter 8 3. Janie and Joe’s final conversation represents their whole life together. Discuss the dynamic between them.

Chapter 8 What did you notice about voice, style, narration and figurative language in this chapter, and how does this relate to character development and theme?

Chapter 9 Biblical allusion #4: Creation and Janie’s part in it – what can you infer about Janie now?

Chapter 10 Compare and contrast Janie’s meeting Tea Cake with the moment she met Logan and the first moment she saw and spoke to Jody. Difference? Similarities? What is Hurston’s purpose?

Chapter 11 When Tea Cake says, “Have de nerve tuh say whut you mean,” what is the impact on Janie? What is the impact on you? What kind of characterization is this?

Chapter 12 Hurston starts this chapter in another voice. Who’s voice is it and how does it help define the community?

Chapter 12 How does Hurston use Phoebe in this chapter? How does she use her in the rest of the book? Why?

Chapter 13 Tea Cake spends Janie’s $200. What is your reaction? How would you have reacted if you were Janie? Why does Hurston have Tea Cake do this?

Chapter 14 How does the community of the Muck compare to Eatonville? (And if you’ve read Gatsby, how do the communities in Their Eyes compare to the communities in Fitzgerald’s world?)

Chapter 15 What happens in this chapter? Why does Hurston put this chapter here?

Chapter 16 Mrs. Turner is very clearly prejudiced. How does Janie react to her? Why does Mrs. Turner like Janie?

Chapter 17 This is the first chapter in a while in which Janie seems to lose her voice. We know about the beating and what the men say afterwards, but Janie herself doesn’t speak. Why does Hurston do this? How should we respond?

IB Warm Up We will be looking at the beginning of an essay by Alice Walker called “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” and doing a style analysis and imitation. Look at the first pages of “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens.” Please write your answer on a separate piece of paper. Step 1: Carefully annotate the first 2 pages of “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” for style using the style checklist. Be sure to include the effect of the stylistic choices in your notes. Step 2: Write a paragraph about Janie’s spirituality in the style of this essay.

IB Agenda Style analysis and imitation – “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” Graded discussion Hero’s Journey PPoint

IB Agenda 10/23 Warm-Up: Famous Paradoxes and Sophisms Hero’s Journey
Discuss TEWWG and essay questions Extra credit project – make a poster of Janie’s internal or external hero’s journey using images and quotes for each stage of the journey.

IB Agenda 10/24 Warm-Up: Mimesis and clay: Make something that represents freedom or existentialism. Academic essay introductions Body paragraphs

IB Agenda 10/28 Warm-Up: Mimesis and clay: Make something that represents freedom or existentialism. Academic Essay Introduction Overview of essay structure Thesis statements Introductions Due next class: Thesis statement, outline including topic sentences for body paragraphs, introduction Please buy A Passage to India. We will be using it. Due dates: 10/30 – Thesis, outline, intro 11/3 – Body Paragraphs and Conclusion 11/5 – Draft 11/7 – Final Draft

IB Agenda 10/29 Warm-Up: Mimesis and clay: Make something that represents freedom or existentialism. Academic Essay Introduction Overview of essay structure Thesis statements Introductions Due next class: Thesis statement, outline including topic sentences for body paragraphs, introduction Please buy A Passage to India. We will be using it. Due dates: 10/31 – Thesis, outline, intro 11/4 – Draft 11/6– Final Draft Due

IB Agenda 8th Period 10/29 “Godfather” clip
Academic body paragraph warm-up Body paragraph Ppoint Write body paragraphs and conclusion. Due dates: 10/31 – Body paragraphs due 11/4 – Draft due 11/6 – Final draft due

IB Agenda 6th Period 10/31 Happy Halloween Exam registration reminders
“Godfather” clip Academic body paragraph warm-up Body paragraph Ppoint Intro, thesis and outline check Pictures Write body paragraphs and conclusion. Due next class: Draft of essay

IB Agenda 8th Period 10/31 Happy Halloween! Pictures
Body paragraph color code and sentence structure check Work time and individual conferences Introduction and body paragraph check Drafts due next class

IB Agenda 11/3 Warm-up: “The Godfather” and gangster movie paragraph.
Body paragraph pitfalls Body paragraph color code and sentence structure peer edit. Body paragraph check Conclusions Work time Drafts due next class

Body Paragraph Peer Edit
COLOR CODE Topic Sentence Concrete Detail Commentary Concluding Sentence Does the topic sentence support the thesis? Do all concrete details and commentary support the topic sentence? Are quotes and paraphrases smoothly integrated and documented? Is commentary insightful and meaningful? Possible errors: Is commentary generic? Does it drift from the topic? Is it really just more concrete detail? Is it repetitive? Is it contradictory? Are there multiple types of sentences such as compound, complex, and compound/complex?

Sentence types Compound: In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses Logan Killicks to explore the implications of slavery; he is a representation of the protected, respectable life that was never available to Nanny. Complex: Since Zora Neal Hurston uses Janie’s hair to symbolize her womanhood, freedom and sexuality, the staid citizens of Eatonville are scandalized when the 40-year-old Janie returns from her adventure with Tea Cake “’wid her hair swinging down her back lak some young gal’” (2). Compound/Complex: Because Hurston believed in the power of voice to communicate culture, she used dialect to explore the importance of storytelling in the creation of meaning, but she used more formal English to create the persona of an educated and intellectual author/narrator. Fragment (Dependent word): Because Janie believed that she would only be fulfilled if she found a lover who recreated her girlhood dream of fertile, blooming sexuality as embodied by the pear tree.

IB Agenda 11/4 Conclusions and MLA Style Peer Edit
Final Draft of Essay Due Next Class! Get copy of A Passage to India by Monday.

IB Agenda 11/5-6 Warm-up: Proofread essays Final Drafts on Top
IOP Assigned Watch, analyze and score sample IOP’s Bring A Passage to India for next class

IB Agenda 11/10 - 11 Warm-up: Watch and score IOP
A Passage to India webquest For next class, read A Passage to India through Chapter 5. We will have a short quiz over the content.

IB Agenda 11/12-13 Warm-up: Watch and score IOP
Late work forms/IOP Proposal Examples A Passage to India Quiz Discuss webquest results Post-colonial theory powerpoint Discuss A Passage to India For next class: Read Chapters 6-9, Quiz Some time in class 20 minutes) to plan for IOP’s. Be ready to meet with me 11/19 about IOP’s. Proposals are due 11/19 at the beginning of class.

IB Agenda 11/17 Warm-up: Watch and score IOP
A Passage to India 5-9 Quiz Post-colonial theory powerpoint For next class: Read Chapters 10-17, Quiz Be ready to meet with me 11/18 about IOP’s. Proposals are due 11/18 at the beginning of class.

IB Agenda 11/18-19 Quiz 10 - 17 Finish Post-Colonial Presentation
Conferences/Work on Projects All proposals due in hard copy. For next time: Read Chapters quiz Finish A Passage to India over Thanksgiving.

IB Agenda 11/20 Quiz Chapters 17-23
Passage to India Post-Colonialism Posters IOP Conferences

IB Agenda 11/21 Quiz Chapters 18-23 Unit Test Review
Finish Post-Colonialism PowerPoint IOP Conferences/Work on IOP

IB English III Agenda 12/1 Sign up for presentation times.
Unit Test – You may use A Passage to India and a dictionary when taking this test. Please be sure to read the passages carefully before answering the questions. Discuss the end of A Passage to India

IB English III 12/4 Go over test Discuss end of Passage to India
Work on presentations

IB Agenda 6th Period 12/5 Presentations
Allegra, Olga, Dani and Alliyah John and Alden Rachel

IB Agenda 4th Period 12/8 Presentations: Ariel Chanse Gandy
Luka and Darrian

IB Agenda 12/9 6th Period Presentations: Reagan, Celine, Angela
Cassidy Ale and Nyssa Ashley Please fill out your grading form with your full name and the title of the book(s) you are addressing and give them to me before your presentation.

IB Agenda 12/9 8th Period Presentations: Kelly Tran
Anna Garrett &Kristine Bermudez Gray Marshall Courtney Gilbreath Please fill out the rubric with the title of the book(s) you are addressing and give it to me before you present.

Mark Bands from May 2014 (These change annually)
7 = 26-30 6 = 22-25 5 = 18-21 4 = 14-17 3 = 11-13 2 = 6-10 1 = 0-5 4 and up are generally passing. Most scores are in the middle - 4’s and 5’s.

IB Agenda 12/10 (4th Period) Brief discussion of mark scheme.
Presentations Sara and Nirusha Marcus Kae and Gianna After presentations are complete, I will be happy to discuss your marks with you.

Scores 30 = = = 67 29 = = = 65 28 = = = 63 27 = = 80 9 = 61 26 = = 78 8 = 59 25 = = 76 7 = 57 24 = = = 55 23 = = 72 5 = 53 22 = = 69 4 = 51

IB Agenda 12/11 6th Period Brief discussion of mark scheme.
After presentations are complete, I will be happy to discuss your marks with you Presentations Savannah Faith Adriana Ruth, Alyssa and Alexis Mithra

IB Agenda 12/12 4th Period Presentations: David Tony and Andrew
Finals Day: Gabriela Bradley Kae and Gianna Dave and Kaleb

IB 8th Period Agenda Finals Day
Ms. Brosche will come to talk to you about some program nuts and bolts for the last 20 minutes. Books to Purchase for Next Semester: The Essential Rilke Paperback trans by by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Lieberman The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch

IB Agenda 1/6 – 1/7 Welcome back! Where in the world did you go?
Semester 2 structure Poetry notebook assignment Poetry annotation/interpretation questions For next class: Read Chapter 1, “Message in a Bottle” from How to Read a Poem. Please purchase How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch. An electronic copy is fine. It is available for Kindle or on Google Books for $9.99 Bring The Essential Rilke to class Bring your poetry notebook to class. You will be bringing this every day!

Where in the world did you go?

IB Agenda 1/12 – 1/13 Vocabulary Warm-up Poetry Notebook check-in
Poetry annotation Rilke presentation Sample reflection Webquest topic selection For next time: Read Chapter 2 in How to Read a Poem

Vocab Warm-up: - Epic or narrative: Poems that tell a story. Sometimes the author speaks in the first person, then lets the characters speak for themselves. Sometimes the poem is in the third person. An epic is usually long and has a heroic theme. - Dramatic: In which the characters do all the talking, monologue or dialogue, characters are clearly not the author. - Lyric: Uttered through the first-person, represents internal or spiritual life, a meditation

IB Agenda 1/ Goals Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of individual literary works as representatives of their genre and period, and the relationships between them – Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which cultural values are expressed in literature – Demonstrate awareness of the significance of the context in which a work is written and received Activities Check poems for next class. Quiz over Chapters 1 & 2 of How To Read a Poem next class. Villanelle form. Introduce Webquest – Rilke biography presentation Assign webquest topics and begin work

Vocabulary Warm-Up Vocab Warm-Up
Caesura: A stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause. Can also be marked by a space. Enjambment: The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.

IB Agenda 1/16 Vocabulary Warm-Up Villanelle/Discuss “One Art”
Work on Webquest

Poetic Vocabulary Warm-Up
With your group, use How To Read a Poem Chapters 1 & 2 and Glossary to define the following and give an example from the book or from your imagination: Kenning Trope Villanelle (Just the title) Synaesthesia Surrealism Stanza

IB Agenda 1/20 Vocabulary Warm-Up Poetry notebook check in
Presentations : Cezanne, Rodin and Apollo Mini reflective statement Discuss “The Panther,” “A Bowl of Roses,” and “Archaic Torso of Apollo”

IB Agenda 1/21 Vocabulary Warm-Up Notebook Check-In
Perfect rhyme: end/bend Slant rhyme: assonance – vowels sound similar: love/have consonance – consonants sound similar but vowels are different – love/leave Internal rhyme: rhyme within a line: Red sky at night, sailors’ delight Notebook Check-In Poetry notebook check in Presentations : Cezanne, Rodin and Apollo Mini reflective statement – Homework if not finished Discuss “The Panther,” “A Bowl of Roses,” and “Archaic Torso of Apollo

Vocab Warm-Up: Rhyme Rhyme Scheme: characteristic patterns of lines (ababcc) Perfect rhyme: end/bend Slant rhyme: assonance – vowels sound similar: love/have consonance – consonants sound similar but vowels are different – love/leave Internal rhyme: rhyme within a line: Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.

For Next Class Read “Orpheus, Euridice, Hermes” and “Leda and the Swan”

IB English III Agenda 1/23/15
For next time: Bring annotations and be prepared to write about: “Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.”

IB Agenda 1/26/2015 Work Day For next class: Read “Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes,” “Leda and the Swan” and “Requiem for a Friend.” Make sure you have read “The World is Large and Full of Noises.” Poetry notebook check next time.

IB Agenda 1/28 Vocabulary: Couplet: Two successive lines of poetry, usually rhymed (aa) Tercet: A three line stanza, often containing rhyme Greek mythology presentations: Orpheus and Eurydice, Hermes, Leda and the Swan Poetry Notebook Check-In Mythology Presentations “Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes” and “Leda and the Swan” small group work For next class: Read Duino Elegies 1 – 3 and write at least 10 annotations based on the annotation questions on each poem. I will check annotations!

IB Agenda 1/29 Counselor scheduling presentation
Look at strong poetry commentary and supervised writing prompt.

IB Agenda 1/30 Please sit 4-5 to a table at a table with supplies
1. Vocabulary Warm-Up Ode: A celebratory poem in an elevated language on an occasion of public importance or a lofty universal theme. Elegy: A poem of mortal loss and consolation 2. Presentations on elegies and Muslim angels 3. Themes and motifs in Rilke 4. Poem dissection

IB Agenda 2/3 – 2/4 No warm-up, brief poetry notebook check (last week’s poems) Presentations (we will cap these at 45 minutes – if we cut anyone off, I will grade their presentations based on their slides). TAKE NOTES DURING THE PRESENTATIONS! Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper Answer the following question: How was your understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations in the work developed through the presentation? Please make sure that you have a heading including the title “Rilke Poetry Reflective Statement,” your name, class period and the date. Count that you have 300 – 400 words. Write legibly and proofread. You must turn your statement in during this class period. Consider using a “what I thought, what I learned from the presentation, what I realize now” format. You will be graded on: “To what extent does the student show that their understanding of the cultural and contextual elements was developed through the interactive oral?”

IB Agenda 2/5 Counselor/Registration Presentation
Poetry notebook check Discuss supervised writing: We will do the supervised writing on Monday. Discuss revision Final poetry notebook due on Wednesday: Must have: Table of contents and poems labeled Two typed, revised poems with three drafts of each One expanded two page typed commentary on a poem Grading 50%: All poems are present, organized and completed in a thoughtful manner 25% Revisions show attention to form and meaning and development of the poem 25% Expanded commentary is thoughtfully explores the themes and literary techniques in the poem as well as your response to it.

Revision Considerations
What are the themes of my poem? What is the mood or tone? Cut or adapt stuff that doesn’t address these themes or fit with the mood and tone. If you’ve chosen to revise a formal poem, does the form support the theme, mood and tone? Is there anything in my poem that seems like filler – doesn’t give new meaning? If so, cut it. Also look for filler words like articles and adverbs like “Very.” Cut these when you can. How are my examples of figurative language supporting my theme and supporting the tone and mood or the poem? If they aren’t, change or eliminate them. How does the sound of my poem fit with the mood and tone? Read the poem out loud and adapt rhythm, words, punctuation, line breaks. Are there any cognitive leaps in my poem? What takes place during the leap and how is it indicated in the poem. Consider word choice: how is each of my words powerful in the poem? Eliminate any cliches and consider synonyms and changing word order to make word choice interesting, surprising, and supportive of your mood, tone and theme. Consider your line breaks and punctuation (caesuras, enjambment). Do they highlight important ideas, create multiple meanings of words, highlight relationships between ideas. Adapt as necesssary. Consider the shape of your poem on the page, play with structure and line breaks so that you feel that your form complements your meaning.

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