IBO IOC

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech analyzed by Nancy Duarte

Charlton Heston Mark Antony speech "Julius Caesar" (1970)

IB English A: The IOC - how to structure your commentary.

How to PREDICTABLY do a Level 7 IOC

Heaney: Blackberry Picking for IB Eng A IOC, GCSE, IGCSE

Julius Caesar

[Shakespeare: The Animated Tales] Julius Caesar

James Joyce - Ulysses: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy, The Last 50 Lines

How to Create a Strong Thesis Statement

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Starring Robert Stephens and Edwa...

The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/08/dream-celt-mario-vargas-llosa-review

The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review

Tragic Hero: Definition, Characteristics & Examples

27) Medea and the plight of a Foreign Woman in Greece

Professor Edith Hall on Euripides' Medea

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar summary

Charlton Heston Mark Antony speech "Julius Caesar" (1970)

Julius Caesar "Dogs of War"

MARLON BRANDO Mark Antony's Speech Brutus is an honourable man

Death and the Maiden - Season 2015 Launch Presentation

Death And The Maiden

TWO DIFFERENT PRODUCTIONS 

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

Death and the Maiden's haunting relevance

Ariel Dorfman

Modern Interpretations of Greek Chorus

Jason and the Argonauts 3D Animation Film

BBC learning zone Medea

PHILOSOPHY: Jacques Derrida

Bogland by Seamus Heaney

Tollund Man - Seamus Heaney reads his poem Tollund Man

VIDEO 1 ABOVE- SOME BACKGROUND FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE

BELOW VIDEO 2

SEAMAS HEANEY READS THE POEM. 

Meet tollund man

What is a Bog?

Different types of wetlands, BOGS and marshes, fens, marshlands

Traditional turf cutting

Tollund Man Digital Story

Medea

Ploughing Old Grassland With Horses

Some helpful background to images in Seamus Heaney's  "Digging".

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

IMPORTANT ONLINE RESOURCES FOR IB ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENTS

https://www.theguardian.com/books


https://www.nytimes.com/section/books/review


https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/02/technology-to-the-classroom/


http://www.nybooks.com/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/

Ariel Dorfman

Feeding on Dreams by Ariel Dorfman

Julius Caesar Act I Review

102B 2 3 Julius Caesar Characters, Themes, and More

Julius Caesar Act I Review

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Starring Robert Stephens and Edwa...

How to get a 7 on IB Lit Written Assignment

How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler

Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Storm on the Island

Storm on the Island

Seamus Heaney: 'Storm on the Island'

Storm on the Island

We are prepared: we build our houses squat,Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate.The wizened earth had never troubled usWith hay, so as you can see, there are no stacksOr stooks that can be lost. Nor are there treesWhich might prove company when it blows fullBlast: you know what I mean - leaves and branchesCan raise a chorus in a galeSo that you can listen to the thing you fearForgetting that it pummels your house too.But there are no trees, no natural shelter.You might think that the sea is company,Exploding comfortably down on the cliffsBut no: when it begins, the flung spray hitsThe very windows, spits like a tame catTurned savage. We just sit tight while wind divesAnd strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo.We are bombarded by the empty air.Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Vocabulary

Words	Description
wizened (line 3)	dried up, shrivelled
stacks / stooks (lines 4/5)	haystacks / shocks of corn sheaves
strafes (line 17)	bombards, harasses with artillery shells
salvo (line 17)	simultaneous firing of artillery

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetheaney/stormontheislandrev2.shtml

Archival: Seamus Heaney reads and discusses his poems

Act 3, Scene 2 | Julius Caesar | Royal Shakespeare Company

Death & Horror at Chile's National Football Stadium | Trans World Sport

CIA, Chile & Allende

Seamus Heaney - 'Punishment' - Annotation

Punishment - Seamus Heaney

Ozymandias

Julius Caesar

Mr. C's IB English Lit Blog - BD Somani Int School : CIA, Chile & Allende - DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - AR...

Mr. C's IB English Lit Blog - BD Somani Int School : CIA, Chile & Allende - DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - AR...: ABOVE - THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND TO CHILE IN 1973 SEPTEMBER 11TH 1973 - THE CIA BACKED GENERAL PINOCHET IN A COUP AGAINST THE DEMOCRATI...

PAUL AUSTER

CLICK ON LINK BELOW FOR WHITE NIGHTS POEM BY PAUL AUSTER



https://redsparrow.wordpress.com/2006/04/01/white-nights-by-paul-auster/

USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39

What is a Sonnet | Their basic structure and form

Seamus Heaney - When all the others were away at Mass

Death and the Maiden (Part 1)

Walking Tour: "Seamus Heaney: Music of What Happens," Sept. 22, 2014, Em...

SEAMAS HEANEY FOLLOWER POEM

Flashback to our Diploma Graduates of 2017 - every blessing and best wishes from all of us at BD for your future

every blessing and best wishes from all of us at BD for your future

Mr. C's IB English Lit Blog - BD Somani Int School : ESSAYS - THE WRITING PROCESS and Creating a Good Thesis Statement

Mr. C's IB English Lit Blog - BD Somani Int School : ESSAYS - THE WRITING PROCESS and Creating a Good Thesis Statement

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats, read by Colin Farrell

Thesis Statements: Four Steps to a Great Essay | 60second Recap®

GRADE 11 HL and SL - FUN ORAL QUIZ GOD OF SMALL THINGS CLASS THURSDAY 31ST - see Edupage Thursday class

Hi Students of Grade X1 HL and SL

This is my Lesson for tomorrow Thursday.

The class will be divided into two teams for an oral quiz - no written test. ONLY CHAPTER 1 so quite easy to prepare for actually.

I have put the details on edupage for tomorrow's class as a homework but I think of it more as a fun student centred learning activity 😊

Resources

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/roy-god.html?mcubz=0       (Link to Chapter One of GOST online - this is all you need to study for quiz)

However by now you should have read most or all of the book :)

This second link below has a great summary and character profile and themes of the book.

http://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-god-of-small-things/chapter-1-paradise-pickles-preserves

Oral Quiz working in teams and groups 

The Written Assignment IB Diploma

How to get a 7 on IB Lit Written Assignment

God of Small Things

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS FAMILY TREE

GRADE 12 HL - Death of a Naturalist

Grade 12 HL 'Julius Caesar': Analysing Act 1 Scene 1

                                                   Thanks to Mr Bruff for posting this video on YouTube.

Martin Luther King Jr I Have A Dream speech with text

An annotated version of I HAVE A DREAM - 
CLICK ON LINK BELOW
https://genius.com/Martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream-annotated

BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA CHURCH BOMBING - MLK FUNERAL EULOGY FOR 4 LITTLE GIRLS.

4 LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED BY KKK MEMBERS IN A RACIST BOMB ATTACK ON AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA.

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW FOR THE CNN STORY 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/1963-birmingham-church-bombing-fast-facts/index.html

Above remembering tragedy using dance - below a first hand memory of the original funeral and the speech (funeral eulogy) Dr Martin Luther King.

Below - student created summary of Civil Rights Movement.

Arundhati Roy discusses The God Of Small Things on Book Club

Cultural Identity and Difference

An Introduction To Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney - 'Punishment' - Annotation

PHILOSOPHY: Jacques Derrida - Literary Theory - Deconstruction

Modernism vs Postmodernism | Unemployed Philosopher

My thanks to Vipasha Shah for sending this to me.

Bill Kynes -What is postmodernism?

The God of Small Things | Book Review

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

Maud Gonne Women of the Irish Revolution

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats, read by Colin Farrell

Slavery in the Ancient World: Rome, China, and Africa

Death of a Naturalist

How to take Cornell notes

12 YEARS A SLAVE - Official Trailer (HD)

The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard

Frog Spawn. Another Sign of Spring. One Minute ID.

Irish linen being weaved from flax farmed in Ireland

LINT AND LINEN putting the flax in a lint dam

WATCH THE SECOND VIDEO BELOW - LINT AND LINEN - BEFORE THE TOP VIDEO 

PART 2 IS ABOVE 

CLICK BELOW HERE FOR PART 1 

GCSE English Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 2 YouTube

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid | Book Review

Martin Luther King | "I Have A Dream" Speech

March 7, 1965 - CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH ALABAMA - DR MARTIN LUTHER KING

Selma Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr. Movie HD

SEAMUS HEANEY POET NOBEL PRIZE WINNER THE GUARDIAN

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/19/seamus-heaney-interview

SEAMAS HEANEY BLACKBERRY PICKING

What is a Tragic Hero?

Medea by Euripides || For Savvy English Text Guides || Only $4.49 from i...

Professor Edith Hall on Euripides' Medea

Click on link below for Prof Edith Hall's web page and many articles on the broader topics of Ancient Greek Drama.
http://edithhall.co.uk/articles

Mr. C's IB English Lit Blog - BD Somani Int School : CIA, Chile

Mr. C's IB English Lit Blog - BD Somani Int School : CIA, Chile

Waiting for Godot at San Quentin

This is part of a documentary made at the set up of a theater production, played by prisoners, at San Quentin State Prison in California. The play was open to the public and premiered 1988.



This unique video has not been on show before.

Director John Reilly

Produced by John Reilly and Global Village for the Beckett Project

Vladimir: Donald James

Estragon: Reginald Wilson

Pozzo: Spoon Jackson

Director: Jan Jönsson (Sweden)



""Godot in San Quentin" (1987) documents the production of "Waiting for Godot" by a cast of inmates from San Quentin Prison. Producer and director John Reilly and a crew spent four weeks at the maximum-security facility; rehearsal and performance sequences are intercut with footage of daily prison life and discussions with the principal characters.

Reilly has said that the inmates "do not `act' because they are not trained actors, but they feel the parts because they have lived the lives of Beckett's characters."

The Chicago Tribune http://articles.chicagotribune.com/19...



Read the story about the theater production from the point of view of one of the actors Spoon Jackson in: "By Heart, Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives" by Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson

Get it here: http://www.newvillagepress.net/book/?...

Dr Nick Mount of Toronto University on Waiting for Godot

What are the 3 Unities of Drama as outlined by Aristotle in his text "POETICS"?

Unities, in drama, the three principles derived by French classicists from Aristotle’s Poetics; they require a play to have a single action represented as occurring in a single place and within the course of a day. These principles were called, respectively, unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time. These three unities were redefined in 1570 by the Italian humanist Lodovico Castelvetro in his interpretation of Aristotle, and they are usually referred to as “Aristotelian rules” for dramatic structure. Actually, Aristotle’s observations on tragedy are descriptive rather than prescriptive, and he emphasizes only one unity, that of plot, or action. (Sourced from ENCYLOPEDIA BRITANNICA)

Waiting for Godot full play

What Is Postmodernism? Modernism 1850- 1945 Postmodernism 1945- until today

ESSAYS - THE WRITING PROCESS and Creating a Good Thesis Statement

    

The Writing Process - very helpful video above. Students should also study the video below on Thesis Statements.

    

"Waiting for Godot" Explained with Philosophy | Philosophy Tube

Professor Edith Hall on Euripides' Medea

GRADE 12 HL GROUP WORK ON PAPER 2 TEXTS

Great Books: INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS (Freud)

Medea

Judith Butler: Your Behavior Creates Your Gender

The Humanities Interviews: Jonathan Culler

Literary Theory at Cornell: A Celebration of Jonathan Culler and His Stu...

Metafiction Explained (Deadpool, Supernatural, Scream & more)

Wordsworth's LYRICAL BALLADS COLLECTION and it's PREFACE

CLICK BELOW FOR THE GUARDIAN REVIEW

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/19/lyrical-ballads-wordsworth-coleridge-stafford-review

Lyrical Ballads, in case you missed it, is, quite simply, possibly the single most important collection of poems in English ever published. It came out in two editions, one of 1798 and one of 1802, the large majority of the poems in each written by Wordsworth. There are enough differences of content between the two editions for them to be usually published, along with the critical apparatus, in one volume, one after the other. The 1798 edition has a short "advertisement" as an introduction, warning readers that the poems within "were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure". In other words, the high-falutin' poetic diction of the 18th century was renounced; plain speech, with as many monosyllables as possible, took its place, and nothing was ever the same again. Its effects are still with us, remarkably. The 1802 edition, much longer, also has a longer Preface, which amounts to a manifesto for what came to be known as Romanticism in particular; and poetry in general.

Understanding Picasso, How To Read Guernica? - Smart Art History #5

Seamus Heaney - Blackberry Picking

"Waiting for Godot" Explained with Philosophy | Philosophy Tube

Waiting for Godot full play

Medea

ART is lie that makes us realise the truth... do you agree?

Pablo Picasso > Quotes > Quotable Quote

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

― Pablo Picasso

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/67884-we-all-know-that-art-is-not-truth-art-is

Professor Edith Hall on Euripides' Medea

Euripides' Medea - Plot Summary

Great Books: 1984 (GEORGE ORWELL)

Women in Greek Theatre

An Introduction to Greek Tragedy

BBC learning zone Medea

Why Arthur Miller Wrote "The Crucible"

Baudrillard - ideas and concepts

James Joyce - Ulysses: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy, The Last 50 Lines

 





…I love flowers I’d love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven there’s nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing then the beautiful country with fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things and all the fine cattle going about that would do your heart good to see rivers and lakes and flowers all sorts of shapes and smells and colours springing up even out of the ditches primroses and violets nature it is as for them saying there’s no God I wouldn’t give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why don’t they go and create something I often asked him atheists or whatever they call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first then they go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because they’re afraid of hell on account of their bad conscience ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all who ah that they don’t know neither do I so there you are they might as well try to stop the sun from rising tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a woman’s body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldn’t answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didn’t know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry in front of the governors house with the thing round his white helmet poor devil half roasted and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their tall combs and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the Jews and the Arabs and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and Duke street and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharans and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts of the bulls and the old castle thousands of years old yes and those handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the posadas glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down Jo me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Schubert Death and the Maiden (1/3) - the music which inspired some scenes in Ariel Dorfman's play

"Death and the Maiden" - String Quartet No. 14 in D minor by Franz Schub...

Art Bought During Boom Leaves Japan After Bust

CLICK HERE FOR NEW YORK TIMES STORY 
Japanese collectors bought at least five of the most expensive works of art ever sold at auction, but only one, van Gogh's ''Sunflowers,'' is still here, in the collection of the Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/19/world/art-bought-during-boom-leaves-japan-after-bust.html

Six Degrees of Separation (2/12) Movie CLIP - Chaos, Control (1993) HD

What is Six Degrees of Separation about?

Our need to belong is primary driver of human beings

Six Degrees Of Separation Trailer PLAY OLD VIC

John Guare, Playwright of Six Degrees of Separation

The Science of Six Degrees of Separation

IB HL English: Literature IOP Example (Shakespeare-Julius Caesar, and Po...

How to Break the Fourth Wall

PHILOSOPHY: Jacques Derrida

MARTIN LUTHER KING The Children of Birmingham 1963 and the Turning Point of the Ci...

  

The political and social background to the campaign for Equal Civil Rights and Equal Treatment for all races.

The injustice of inequality - 

DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION   

led to the rise of Martin Luther King and the non-violent CIVIL RIGHTS RESISTANCE TO INJUSTICE.
I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH ANALYSIS - 
CLICK BELOW HERE
http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/speech-analysis-dream-martin-luther-king/

John Guare, Playwright of Six Degrees of Separation

Symbolism vs Allegory

Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory T...

Thesis Statements: Four Steps to a Great Essay | 60second Recap®

CIA, Chile & Allende - DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - ARIEL DORFMAN

ABOVE - THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND TO CHILE IN 1973

SEPTEMBER 11TH 1973 - THE CIA BACKED GENERAL PINOCHET IN A COUP AGAINST THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLENDE.

BELOW - HOW THE FOOTBALL STADIUM BUILT TO CELEBRATE 'THE BEAUTIFUL GAME' BECAME A PRISON OF TORTURE AND MURDER.
GENERAL PINOCHET ARRESTED THOUSANDS OF CHILEAN PEOPLE HE SUSPECTED OF BEING LOYAL TO THE MURDERED PRESIDENT ALLENDE.
IN THE PLAY DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - PAULINA AND GERARDO (FICTIONAL CHARACTERS IN A FICTIONAL PLAY INSPIRED BY REAL POLITICAL EVENTS)
TIMELINE
1970 ALLENDE ELECTED IN A FREE DEMOCRATIC ELECTION
1973  GENERAL PINOCHET SEIZES POWER IN A MILITARY COUP. THE ELECTED PRESIDENT DIES OF GUNSHOT TO THE HEAD IN HIS OFFICE.
1990 - THE MILITARY AGREES TO GIVE PERMISSION FOR A RETURN TO DEMOCRACY.
BUT GENERAL PINOCHET IS PROMISED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION FOR HIS LIFETIME. ALSO THE MILITARY ARE ALLOWED TO KEEP ONE THIRD OF ALL SEATS IN THE PARLIAMENT - WITHOUT STANDING FOR ELECTION.
DORFMAN RETURNS TO CHILE 1990 - SEE HIS AFTERWORD TO THE PLAY.

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY DRAMA SOCIETY

Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy interview on Charlie Rose (1997) - Suggested by Tamanna Grade X1

Although this interview is 10 years old it may interest students to consider the views expressed here. Thank you Tamanna for sending me this link.

Six Degrees Of Separation Trailer

STUDY RESOURCE PACK CLICK HERE BELOW

https://oldvictheatre-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/File/2304.pdf

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)

STUDY RESOURCES CLICK HERE BELOW

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/theater/reviews/12brantley.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Cold War in 9 Minutes - Background for Death and the Maiden and The Crucible - USA fear of communism