IB ENGLISH HIGHER LEVEL
-- ASSIGNMENTS/DISCUSSIONS.... FALL UNIT --
• The Novel Male (Various) • Byronic Hero (Jane Eyre, Picture of Dorian Gray)
• Gilead Arises: The Handmaid's Tale • Unseen Commentaries
On Your Bookshelf, In Your Brain.... The Novel Male
Shockey's IB English 12 HL is currently doing a close reading of a novel student chose during the summer from an assigned list .
Text: TBD
Author: various
Setting: various
“Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.” -Elizabeth Bennett
“And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”."
--- Pride & Prejudice
NOTE to 2020-2021 Students: These dates are wrong. The page is being edited. Disregard due dates for now.
Date: Summer work due.
Date: Discussion of Summer Work journals.
Date: Summer Work essay on time period issues due at turnitin.com..
Date: Jane Eyre Discussion: Fall Unit on turnitin.com begins.
Date: Jane Eyre Study Guide, which is below as a linked file. (Major Project: AKA Shockey's Review Sheet, part A)
Date: Test on Jane Eyre (overall) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (reading).
Date: Begin Jane Eyre/Tess of the D'Urbervilles Essay; Essay is due September 27 at turnitin.com.
Date:: The Essential Jane Eyre. (Major Project: AKA Shockey's Review Sheet, part B)
Working from your summer journal, and class discussion, choose one quote or passage that you believe to be essential for an understanding of Jane Eyre (character, philosophy, growth and self-actualization, relationships, etc.) for each chapter.
• Quotes/passages do not have to come from Jane. Any character can be represented.
• Ultimately, you will have 38 quotes/passages representing each chapter, but you may choose more than one per chapter if the mood strikes you. Complete a thorough analysis of each quote/passage.
• You may repeat discussions from your summer work in this document, but each re-inclusion should show maturity and growth now that we have completed the textual discussion.
• Refer to the IB Mind SQUIDS paper if you need assistance on writing a comprehensive analysis/commentary on the quotes.
NOTE FOR THE UNWARY TRAVELER IN SHOCKEY WORLD:
[√] Yes, you have the entire month to do this assignment.
[√] Yes, students have waited until the last minute to do this assignment.
[√] Yes, those students regretted their decisions when they watched their grade plummet before Parent Conferences
[√] Yes, you can contact last year's students to verify that this was one of their greatest mistakes last year and they regret it tremendously.
[√] No, you are not the exception to the rule. Do not test me on this.
Date: Summer work due.
Date: Discussion of Summer Work journals.
Date: Summer Work essay on time period issues due at turnitin.com..
Date: Jane Eyre Discussion: Fall Unit on turnitin.com begins.
Date: Jane Eyre Study Guide, which is below as a linked file. (Major Project: AKA Shockey's Review Sheet, part A)
Date: Test on Jane Eyre (overall) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (reading).
Date: Begin Jane Eyre/Tess of the D'Urbervilles Essay; Essay is due September 27 at turnitin.com.
Date:: The Essential Jane Eyre. (Major Project: AKA Shockey's Review Sheet, part B)
Working from your summer journal, and class discussion, choose one quote or passage that you believe to be essential for an understanding of Jane Eyre (character, philosophy, growth and self-actualization, relationships, etc.) for each chapter.
• Quotes/passages do not have to come from Jane. Any character can be represented.
• Ultimately, you will have 38 quotes/passages representing each chapter, but you may choose more than one per chapter if the mood strikes you. Complete a thorough analysis of each quote/passage.
• You may repeat discussions from your summer work in this document, but each re-inclusion should show maturity and growth now that we have completed the textual discussion.
• Refer to the IB Mind SQUIDS paper if you need assistance on writing a comprehensive analysis/commentary on the quotes.
NOTE FOR THE UNWARY TRAVELER IN SHOCKEY WORLD:
[√] Yes, you have the entire month to do this assignment.
[√] Yes, students have waited until the last minute to do this assignment.
[√] Yes, those students regretted their decisions when they watched their grade plummet before Parent Conferences
[√] Yes, you can contact last year's students to verify that this was one of their greatest mistakes last year and they regret it tremendously.
[√] No, you are not the exception to the rule. Do not test me on this.
What We Are Talking About:
Summer, 2020: Discuss summer novels; annotate.
School Begins: First Due Date-- TBD • Reading & Annotation • Dialectical Journals/SQUIDS • Summer Pods/Groups • Summer Novel essay Presentation Schedule: Presentations will be set once school begins. First Presentation Topics: Character, Setting, Conflict, Theme, Powerful Words, Symbolism, Literary Significance, etc. Second Presentation Topics: Literary Filters & Theories, Close Readings |
Where You Should Be Talking:
Plugged In: The following assignments are 'active' at turnitin.com and require your attention:
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On Your Bookshelf, waiting until September ...... Gothic, Byronic Jane Eyre & The Picture of Dorian Gray
What We are Talking About:
Bookshelf: The Byronic Hero Text: Jane Eyre & The Picture of Dorian Gray Author: Charlotte Bronté / Oscar Wilde Setting: Pre- & Current- Victorian England “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you–especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I’ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.” –Mr. Rochester “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” ... Dorian Gray Working from your small groups, study questions and class discussion, choose one quote or passage that you believe to be essential for an understanding of Tess, Alec or Angel (character, philosophy, growth and self-actualization, relationships, etc.) for each chapter. • Any character can be represented. • Ultimately, you will have quotes/passages representing each chapter, but you may choose more than one per chapter if the mood strikes you. Complete a thorough analysis of each quote/passage. • Your work should show maturity and growth. • Refer to the IB Mind SQUIDS paper if you need assistance on writing a comprehensive analysis/commentary on the quotes. |
Where You Should Be Talking:
Plugged In: The following assignments are 'active' at turnitin.com and require your attention:
LINK: Turnitin Discussions |