IOC List of poems and arrangements

Students - come to school about 15 minutes before your start - time. 

Stay on the 3 rd floor and go to the LIBRARY to get your extract  - 5 minutes before your due time.

If there is another student there for the IOC prep - sit far away and do not interact with them.

Follow the librarians instructions exactly. Do not bring any IOC texts or notes to the library - leave them in your locker or outside.

DO NOT ENTER ROOM 9 UNTIL THE LIBRARIANS OR I INSTRUCT YOU TO DO SO.

THE SENTRY
STRANGE MEETING
SPRING OFFENSIVE
MENTAL CASES 
DISABLED
DULCE ET DECORUM 
EXPOSURE

See the email I sent just now with more detailed instructions.

IOC LIST OF SPEAKERS DEC JAN 2015 2016

Monday 28th       10 - 130

10.................            1020 end of prep........RECORDING 1020....1040 finish 

Simran Gupta

10.30 ..................10.50.................................11.10              Ira Khan
11..........................11.20................................11.40             Aryaman Banerjee
11.30.......................11.50...............................12.10              Simran C Shah
12...........................12.20............................12.40                 Avishi Patodia
12.30.................12.50.................................1.10                    Supriya Kumar

Tuesday 29th       10 - 130
10.................1020 end of prep  .....    .RECORDING 1020....1040 finish
10.30 ..................10.50.................................11.10 Avishi Jalan
11..........................11.20................................11.40 Anuschka Goenka
11.30.......................11.50...............................12.10 Nitya Somani
12...........................12.20............................12.40 Sanya Parekh
12.30.................12.50.................................1.10 Diya Shah

Outstanding - postponed....

Sumair Dhawan  ........... Sumer Thakkar ...............VIR...............

Othello - Top 10 Questions

 



These videos are very concise and a very good starting point for revision of the play.

Of course, the best form of study is to read the whole play in the original text, then watch the play performed by a really good ensemble of actors and then finally read the play as you listen to an audio recording.

IOC POEMS

List of Owen Poems for Official IOC in winter break (Christmas/New Year school holiday) -  ALL 7  are eligible for your mock IOC recording.

Choose one of the first 4 for your December Essay - DUE SUNDAY 13TH

Choose any poem for your mock recording due to me no later than Thursday 17TH.

1. SENTRY
2. STRANGE MEETING
3. SPRING OFFENSIVE
4. MENTAL CASES 

Essays already completed on these poems.

1. DISABLED
2. DULCE ET DECORUM 
3. EXPOSURE

Strange Meeting By Wilfred Owen.mp4

Excellent analysis by Mr Gilbert.

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Sting ~ Fragile

Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 4: Othello

"To Women As Far As I'm Concerned" by David Herbert Lawrence, read by Th...

Sonnet 142: Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Othello (Shakespeare) – Thug Notes Summary & Analysis

GRADE X1 IOPS

MONDAY -30TH - CLASS AS NORMAL
TUESDAY 1ST DECEMBER  10AM ANISA SAANTHIA NEHA
Tuesday 1st English Class 210 - Parmangana
Wednesday 1050 - Anshula and Ashna
Wednesday in class - Jay, Arjun and Aadesh
THURSDAY - 210pm -   Shreya and Liyaan
Thursday 3pm ----           NAVYA and Neeraja.
FRIDAY 4TH DECEMBER  1150AM Anaisha

Thank you students for being so helpful in arranging these IOPs.

Assignments -

1. Compare and contrast any 2 novels you have read in the last two years.  500-750 words Due 01-Dec-2015.  (This will help you with the semester exam skills).

2.    Culler Chapter 8,   Identity a summary 300-500 words Due    07-Dec-2015. This will help you advance your understanding of literary theory.

Learning and fun during the Diwalli Holiday - extra classes for the IOC

During the recent Diwalli holiday, a group of my Grade 12 English Literature HL students volunteered for some extra classes for the IOC oral exams.  

In the morning session we discussed Wilfred Owen's poetry and Martin Luther King's inspiring speeches. We also looked at how TOK could help us understand the closed minds of racists and segregationists during the Civil Rights struggle of Dr King. We noted his reference to India's peaceful resistance movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, one of Dr King's heroes.

In the afternoon session we enjoyed a film version of "Othello". Shakespeare's language and characters are really timeless. We continued the discussion over a lunch of  excellent vegetarian pizzas. A big thank you to these enthusiastic students who gave up one day from their holidays to do some extra work. BD Somani Students, you are amazing.

How to PREDICTABLY do a Level 7 IOC

Rosa Parks and the Mongomery bus boycott

Martin Luther King on the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Remembering JFK: A Moral Question

Orientalism as a Tool of Colonialism 1/4

[1.15] The God of Small Things

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Analysis of 'Sonnet 116' by William Shakespeare

Poetry Analysis of Spring Offensive (Wilfred Owen)

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 -- Let me not to the marriage

Sonnet 116' by William Shakespeare: A* Analysis - www.mrbruff.com

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God of Small Things

GRADE X1 - NEW IB ENG LIT STUDENTS BOOK REVIEWS Q1 - CLASS 2015-2017

       

Hi fellow life long learners and lovers of books!
Here is a space on the blog where you can post a BOOK Review/ Please include a personal response to the text, word limit 90-150 words.

Bill Kynes -What is postmodernism?

London Theater Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet’

  Hamlet

Theatre Screening

Godrej Dance Theatre MUMBAI

Sunday, 8th November – 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm,

Monday, 9th & Tuesday, 10th November – 6.30 pm

NOTE STUDENTS - We will book a block of tickets for Sunday November 8th at 3pm

An NCPA-National Theatre Live (London) Presentation

Academy award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica), NT Live will broadcast this eagerly awaited production.As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

Tickets: Rs.500/-

Juliet Stevenson reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 116

MR.C.'s TOK Blog- BD Somani Int School -Mumbai: Paul Auster Lightning bolt death changed my life

Click on this link below:
MR.C.'s TOK Blog- BD Somani Int School -Mumbai: Paul Auster Lightning bolt death changed my life

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)

Islam Against Terrorism: "To a Suicide Bomber": A Poem by Dr. Rafey Habib

STRANGE MEETING BY WILFRED OWEN

Mohsin Hamid Reads from The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 4: Othello

The History of English in 10 Minutes - Sub ENG

10 Reasons Why the Book 1984 Still Matters in 2015

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Free Audio Book in English Language)

Kamila Shamsie discusses her book Burnt Shadows

What is Literary Criticism?

The Making of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

GREAT FILM - BUT READ THE BOOK FIRST - THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES!
READ. READ . READ.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Wilfred Owen, 'Dulce et Decorum Est'

 

       

The Genius of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

DanStevens - reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Free Audio Book in English Language)

Gender and Sexual Identity - how does it relate to Feminist Literary Theory? How is knowledge about gender constructed?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

What about books where racism and feminism are themes?  Here is a review of "The Bluest Eye" written by Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison.

                           

What is feminist theory? Have images and roles of men and women changed over the last 2centuries?      Does television help promote tolerance and acceptance of different ideas about masculinity and worth and value?

   Who was Ernst Rohm?

 Was he killed because of his sexuality or his planned coup against Hitler?

Is gender and sexuality the same thing? Should the private sexuality of people be an issue in their public life?

                                                                          Above Prof Judith Bulter of Stanford on Gender as Performance and Hilary Swank in the movie "Boys Don't Cry"

                                       

   

"The God of Small Things" - Reviews by real people who care about literature!

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

MLA Margins, line spacing, font

Thank you to the OP for this video. Very helpful.

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot - Online Resources - outstanding website

       

The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources
and Links Pages     http://www.samuel-beckett.net/

Did you know - The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 was awarded to Samuel Beckett"for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/

Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego

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MEDEA AUDIO DISCUSSION - PLACE OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE.

The National Theatre LONDON presents a range of new plays & classics in London, on tour, and via live broadcast to cinemas around the world.

Historian Bettany Hughes and theatre scholar Oliver Taplin discuss the place of women in Ancient Greek society and their depiction as dangerous and tragic figures.

This is a recording of a live Platform event.

CLICK BELOW

https://soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre/medea-platform-five

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching”

Wislawa Szymborska    1923- 

Polish   translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

The bomb in the bar will explode at thirteen twenty.

Now it's just thirteen sixteen.

There's still time for some to go in,

and some to come out.

The terrorist has already crossed the street.

The distance keeps him out of danger,

and what a view -- just like the movies:

A woman in a yellow jacket, she's going in.

A man in dark glasses, he's coming out.

Teen-agers in jeans, they're talking.

Thirteen seventeen and four seconds.

The short one, he's lucky, he's getting on a scooter,

but the tall one, he's going in.

Thirteen seventeen and forty seconds.

That girl, she's walking along with a green ribbon in her hair.

But then a bus suddenly pulls in front of her.

Thirteen eighteen.

The girl's gone.

Was she that dumb, did she go in or not,

we'll see when they carry them out.

Thirteen nineteen.

Somehow no one's going in.

Another guy, fat, bald, is leaving, though.

Wait a second, looks like he's looking for something in his pockets and

at thirteen twenty minus ten seconds

he goes back in for his crummy gloves.

Thirteen twenty exactly.

This waiting, it's taking forever.

Any second now.

No, not yet.

Yes, now.

The bomb, it explodes.

_______________________

My thanks to my colleague, Mr Paul Dyer here at BD Somani International School who introduced me to this poet and her disturbing and yet powerful poem.

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Film Beckett

Esperando Godot

Beckett On Film Waiting For Godot 2001

The first rehearsal of Waiting for Godot

         

                                                                

National Theatre: Medea today

                            

  

Waiting For Godot 2001

Beckett On Film Waiting For Godot 2001

Theatre Appreciation Unit Two

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John Guare, Playwright of Six Degrees of Separation

The Crucible Overview

GRADE X1 HOMEWORK - WATCH VIDEO ON ALLENDE and Pinochet - post comment

Video 1 above - homework on Tuesday March 24th - watch, take notes and post short comment.

Video 2 below for background knowledge:

Isabel Allende daughter of President Allende became a refugee and then citizen in America.
Somewhat ironic given alleged CIA involvement in the coup against her father.
She is a famous novelist. Check "House of Spirits"

8th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture - Ariel Dorfman

Dr Martin Luther King resources and Starbucks Race Together - what do you think?

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/a_call_to_conscience_the_landmark_speeches_of_martin_luther_king_jr_content/

Is race still an issue in Modern America?

CIA, Chile & Allende - CULTURAL CONTEXT FOR DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - WRITTEN TASK

VIDEO 1 - THE ORIGINS OF THE RED SCARE IN AMERICA GROWS AS MANY PEOPLE BECOME CONVINCED THAT COMMUNISM WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

THIS FEAR WILL CONTINUE THROGH THE 50s and intensify during the VIETNAM WAR 1960s and 1970s.

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IS BASED ON A 'COLD WAR' WITH RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION. THERE IS FEAR OF COMMUNISM SPREADING TO ASIA AND SOUTH AMERICA. PRESIDENT ALLENDE IN CHILE IS A VICTIM OF THE PREVAILING BELIEF THAT AMERICA MUST OPPOSE COMMUNISTS EVEN WHEN THEY ARE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED. SOME OF THIS FEAR MAY BE JUSTIFIED BY STUDYING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OF OCTOBER 1962. THE SOVIETS HAD PLACED NUCLEAR MISSILES IN CUBA WHICH COULD REACH AMERICAN CITIES IN ONE HOUR FROM LAUNCH. THE WORLD CAME VERY CLOSE TO WORLD WAR 3.

DORFMAN had been a critic of America and a supporter of Allende. But he found refuge in the USA from the Chilean military and rose to be a Professor of Literature in American Universities. Somewhat ironic. You should also look up novelist Isabel Allende who also found refuge in the USA,

VIDEO 2 - HOW GENERAL PINOCHET LED THE CHILEAN ARMY IN A COUP AGAINST ITS OWN PRESIDENT ALLENDE. IN DORFMAN'S FICTIONAL PLAY, PAULINA AND GERARDO WERE SUPPORTERS OF THE MARXIST ALLENDE. ROBERTO TORTURED ON BEHALF OF THE MILITARY BUT MAINLY BECAUSE HE WAS A SADIST WHO ENJOYED POWER OVER FEMALE PRISONERS.

A BROADER HISTORICAL BACKGROUND BELOW - A SURVEY OF THE KEY HISTORICAL FACTORS WHICH LED TO THE COLD WAR.

Top 10 Notes: The Crucible

Video! Andrew Lloyd Webber on "Cats" Coming Home and Why Nicole Scherzin...

                                       CATS is frequently referenced in Six Degrees of Separation by Paul.

Waiting For Godot

Duologue - John Guare & Peter Shaffer pt. 1 of 9

Six Degrees of Separation (1/12) Movie CLIP - I Was Mugged (1993) HD

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION - reference Sidney Poitier actor - Paul claims this man is his father

Trailer of Sidney Poitier's most famous film - Guess who's coming to dinner - about an inter-racial marriage.

What is Six Degrees of Separation about?

"The Catcher in the Rye" THEME 1 -- "The Catcher in the Rye" ... from 60...

How to Write an Essay | Step 1 | 60second Recap®

OLEANNA DAVID MAMET RESOURCES

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/theater/theater-he-said-she-said-who-did-what.html?pagewanted=print

http://vermilionproductions.com/oleanna-sub02.html

“It seems that 'Oleanna' is in fact 'Oleana'. Ole Bull (1810-1880) was a Norwegian

1

virtuoso violinist who took his music all over the world until, finding himself in

Pennsylvania, he fell in love with the place. In 1852 he bought a vast tract of land and

tried to set up an idealistic community, which he called 'Oleana', where fellow

Norwegians could live peacefully and escape the tyrannies of their homeland. In fact, the

land he had bought was completely unsuitable for farming and the venture failed. He, and

many other settlers who had joined him, lost a great deal of money and most of them, Ole

Bull included, returned to Norway. The site of his venture is now the Ole Bull National

Park. An 'oleana' is thus used to refer to the hopeless pursuit of an idealistic, even utopian,

dream where all things are naively held to be possible”.

http://www.benchtheatre.org.uk/plays0203/oleanna.html Following is a version of the

Norwegian folk song Oleanna (Oleana), (Translation from the Norwegian by Pete Seeger)

Ole, oleanna, ole, oleannaole, ole, ole, ole, ole, oleanna Oh to be in Oleanna,

that's where I'd like to be.

IOP TIPS

https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/live-exist/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=d_1_a1lan_tsm_1105_1a_e&part=2&chapter=12



A BIG THANK YOU TO MR HOYE FOR THIS WONDERFUL RESOURCE!



http://mrhoyesibwebsite.com/

CIA, Chile & Allende

Grade X1 students will read Act 1 for Thursday January 6th.

You will write a summary of the points in this video in paragraph form to a word count of 200-300 words.
You should also read this article:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/14/death-maiden-relevance-play

Neil & his Father - paternal love or something else?

Catcher in the Rye Will Smith monologue

Six Degrees of Separation HD Trailer

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)