Palace of the End Study Guide - sourced by Gauri

https://www.canadianstage.com/ArticleMedia/pdfs/Education/Study_Guides/Palace%20of%20the%20End%20-%20Study%20Guide.PDF

Disabled, by Wilfred Owen - Fantastic reading and images.

Wilfred Owen's poem, "Disabled" explained by Tim Hewitt (re-post)

This was posted by me a long time ago on the Wilfred Owen page which you can find in the side bar of this blog. My thanks to Mr Hewitt who like Mr Gilbert has used youtube effectively, helping many students around the world. My students and I thank you for these excellent videos.

Excellent page from United World College

The Formal Oral Commentary
Let's start off with--
What a commentary is:
 
http://literatureatuwccr.wikispaces.com/IOC+Preparations

Youtube playlist for Wilfred Owen

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0AEC59A694B446EF&feature=mh_lolz

Hi everyone - I have posted the poems we are using for the mock here on the blog.
We will be studying several more poems before the 'real' IOC in January.

Wilfred Owen's draft preface explaining his view on his own poetry.

THE PITY OF WAR.

"This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them.
Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry.
My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity.
Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
(If I thought the letter of this book would last, I might have used proper names; but if the spirit of it survives - survives Prussia - my ambition and those names will have achieved fresher fields than Flanders...)"

http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/biography/preface 

Why Study Wilfred Owen's Poetry.mp4

An explanation of Wilfred Owen's poem "Exposure"

An explanation and analysis of Wilfred Owen's Disabled for GCSE and A Le...

Dulce et Decorum Est -- an explanation and Analysis.mp4

Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting- BBC DRAMATISATION OF THE POEM

Strange Meeting By Wilfred Owen.mp4

SAMPLE IOCs - TIPS and more

  These resources are from the website of Mr Brad Philpot, author of this bestseller, IB teacher and examiner and they will help you prepare.


http://www.englishalanglit-inthinking.co.uk/individual-oral-commentary/tips.htm


http://www.englishalanglit-inthinking.co.uk/individual-oral-commentary/ioc-sample-work.htm

HL IOC MOCKS/ MON/TUES/WED/20 mins prep plus 10 mins commentary (Owen) plus 10 minutes discussion MLK or "Palace..."

STUDENTS SHOULD TURN UP ON THE SECOND FLOOR EXACTLY ON TIME. CHECK THE LIST OF NAMES AND TIMES, REMIND YOUR TEACHER THAT YOU MAY LEAVE THE CLASS 15 MINUTES BEFORE YOU ARE DUE AT THE COUNSELLOR'S OFFICE TO RECEIVE YOUR EXTRACT.

YOU WILL PULL A PAGE FROM THE STACK OF EXTRACTS. TEXT SIDE WILL BE DOWN. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE EXTRACT BEFORE YOU CHOOSE. YOU WILL THEN HAVE 20 MINUTES TO MAKE NOTES AND BULLET POINTS ON BLANK PAPER PROVIDED. DO NOT TAKE ANY OTHER RESOURCES OR YOUR PHONE TO THE PREPARATION AREA. AFTER 20 MINUTESYOU WILL THEN BE CALLED TO THE TEST/RECORDING  ROOM  TO PRESENT YOUR COMMENTARY. YOU CAN TAKE  THE NOTES YOU HAVE JUST MADE. THERE WILL BE TWO GUIDING QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU FOCUS YOUR RESPONSE TO THE TEXT.

PART 1 8 MINS COMMENTARY AND 2 MINS Q AND A

WILFRED OWEN LIST MOCK IOCS HIGHER LEVEL STUDENTS

1.           DISABLED 44

2.           DULCE ET DECORUM EST 28 LINES

3.           STRANGE MEETING 40 LINES

4.           MENTAL CASES 27 LINES HL ONLY

5.           EXPOSURE 40 LINES HL ONLY

  

PART 2 of your oral will not be based on an extract but on one of the other texts in a general discussion. You will not have the text but will give your views based on your imaginative response to the text. Structure, language, themes, imagery, tone etc

Focus on genre, audiences and literary or rhetorical style.

HL ONLY :the literary discussion. 10 minutes on one of these two texts:

Drama : “PALACE OF THE END”   Or 

Martin Luther King's Speeches.

 

IOC MOCKS STANDARD LEVEL TEXTS/20 mins prep plus 10 mins commentary

WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY-FRIDAY SL STUDENTS

STUDENTS SHOULD TURN UP ON THE SECOND FLOOR EXACTLY ON TIME. CHECK THE LIST OF NAMES AND TIMES, REMIND YOUR TEACHER THAT YOU MAY LEAVE THE CLASS 15 MINUTES BEFORE YOU ARE DUE AT THE COUNSELLOR'S OFFICE TO RECEIVE YOUR EXTRACT.

YOU WILL PULL A PAGE FROM THE STACK OF EXTRACTS. TEXT SIDE WILL BE DOWN. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE EXTRACT BEFORE YOU CHOOSE. YOU WILL THEN HAVE 20 MINUTES TO MAKE NOTES AND BULLET POINTS ON BLANK PAPER PROVIDED. DO NOT TAKE ANY OTHER RESOURCES OR YOUR PHONE TO THE PREPARATION AREA. AFTER 20 MINUTESYOU WILL THEN BE CALLED TO THE TEST/RECORDING  ROOM  TO PRESENT YOUR COMMENTARY. YOU CAN TAKE  THE NOTES YOU HAVE JUST MADE. THERE WILL BE TWO GUIDING QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU FOCUS YOUR RESPONSE TO THE TEXT.

 

EXTRACT FROM ONE OF THESE WILFRED OWEN POEMS - 20-30 LINES

1.           DISABLED 44

2.           DULCE ET DECORUM EST 28 LINES

3.           STRANGE MEETING 40 LINES

OR 

MARTIN LUTHER KING EXTRACT approx 30 lines for literary commentary

I HAVE A DREAM                                                                                                      EULOGY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SPEECH

 

PREP FOR IOC ENG HIGHER LEVEL ONLY

Mental Cases Analysis

Martin Luther King Jr. - student-friendly video for context and timeline

   CLICK HERE   ON LINK                                                            Mr. C.'s IB English Blog - BD Somani Int School - Mumbai: The Road to the Nobel Peace Prize: Martin Luther King Jr.

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

Critical Theory, Postmodernism & Feminist Critique

Stephen Fry on Ulysses - James Joyce

Origin of Diwali - Best wishes to my students, their families, my colleagues and all readers of this blog around the world.

The Road to the Nobel Peace Prize: Martin Luther King Jr.