Grade 11 - Reading Books Beyond the Curriculum - post your title

SEAMAS HEANEY THE FORGE

Seamus Heaney interview on his Life and Career + Poetry Reading (1991)

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)

Macbeth IOP - Lauren

What advice do you have for young poets?

When You Are Old | WB Yeats | Colin Farrell

LITERATURE - Samuel Beckett

LITERATURE - James Joyce

10 Minutes On... Pat Barker's Regeneration

SEAMUS HEANEY POEMS ON YOUTUBE ANALYSIS - SEE LINK under video

MORE VIDEOS ON HEANEY ON YOUTUBE CHANNEL GANDHI AND KING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOx4S2IJhaU&list=PL2258sRS6Iz7TmGHyI8_z3JAyxyUMNRYj&index=1

Death of a Naturalist HEANEY Video Commentary

Lecture - Shakespeare's Tragic Hero

Julius Caesar's Tragic Hero Journey

Shakespeare and Aristotelian Tragic theory

Brutus As a Tragic Hero

Video SparkNotes: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar summary

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

Exploring a Rhetorical Speech | Text Detectives | Royal Shakespeare Company

Analyzing Brutus's Speech to the Plebeians

PAUL AUSTER ....Lightning bolt death changed my life

Writing a Literary Analysis Comparison Paper

Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis (part 1) | Existentialist Philosophy & L...

Metamorphosis 1

What is New Criticism?

"Death of the Author" Explained.

'The Death of the Author' Simplified (Roland Barthes)

Bill Kynes -What is postmodernism?

10 Minutes On... Pat Barker's Regeneration

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

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

Julius Caesar by Shakespeare | Act 1, Scene 1 Summary & Analysis

New 3D reconstruction reveals Julius Caesar basically looked like E T

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

What is Literary Criticism?

The Written Assignment IB Diploma (formerly World Literature Essay)

                                       

Language, Structure & Form Explained (part 1: Shakespeare) Part 2 Poetry - Not IB but still very useful.

Above Mr Bruff deals with Structure and Form in Shakespearean drama.

Below Mr Bruff deals with the difference between structure and form in poetry.

Ozymandias 1. Animation 2. Mr Bruff analysis.

Postmodernism as a reaction to Modernism

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

Seamus Heaney - Mid-Term Break - Poetry Lecture and analysis by Dr. Andr...

Blackberry Picking

The Humanities Interviews: Jonathan Culler

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

Taking Notes on Books

Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon

Seamus Heaney: 'Storm on the Island' Mr Bruff Analysis

What is Psychological Criticism?

In "Regeneration" by Pat Barker, Dr Rivers is a fictional character who is using psychiatry to help his patients recover from the trauma of the war.
The setting for the novel is Craiglockhart Mental Hospital Scotland.

Adolf Hitler's Childhood: From Hidden to  Manifest Horror

    
Dr Alice Miller's Chapter on Hitler 
http://www.nospank.net/fyog13.htm


Below video on Sigmund Freud. Some ideas here may disturb some viewers but remember they are only theories.

                        

BELOW - the strange man who became a terrorist -  THE UNABOMBER - IQ 167 - what went wrong?

First Scene of Enduring Love (2004)

Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death (Clip)

PHILOSOPHY: Jacques Derrida

SAJJAN SINGH RANGROOT - INDIAN SOLDIERS IN THE BRITISH ARMY WORLD WAR 1

GRADE 11 'Aftermath' by Siegfried Sassoon WORLD WAR 1 POETRY

Siegfried Sassoon - Aftermath

HAVE you forgotten yet? ...

For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,

Like traffic checked a while at the crossing of city ways:

And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow

Like clouds in the lit heavens of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,

Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.

But the past is just the same - and War's a bloody game...

Have you forgotten yet? ...

Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.

Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz -

The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?

Do you remember the rats; and the stench

Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench -

And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?

Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'

Do you remember that hour of din before the attack -

And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then

As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?

Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back

With dying eyes and lolling heads - those ashen-gray

Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?

Have you forgotten yet? ...

Look up, and swear by the slain of the war that you'll never forget!

GRADE 12 Personal Helicon SEAMAS HEANEY

GRADE 12 Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon

GRADE 12 - How to aim for a 7 on IB Lit Written Assignment

These videos have excellent suggestions.

Please note the IBO has introduced new rules on the use of  STUDENT ID numbers on the essay. I will explain these rules in class.

1. Course introduction

The God of Small Things Summary

Ploughing Old Grassland With Horses (And Planting Potatoes The Old-Fashi...

GRADE 12 ----Seamus Heaney - When all the others were away ...(Clearances iii)

GRADE 11 STUDENTS OF MR C AUGUST 2018- MAY 2020 - First Quarter Topics and Assessment.

 (3 IOP TEXTS)  
Note this blog will work in conjunction with Google Classroom and turnitin.com to provide extended independent learning and feedback beyond the classroom.
Students must read the first two texts at home in August.
"Ulysses" will be read in class in the first quarter and at home in the second quarter.

August 8-31st  TEXT 1
978-0-143-02857-4 The God of Small Things Roy Penguin India
ISBN-10: 0141182806   ISBN-13: 978-0141182803
Do not expect us to read entire books in class. This is not possible in IB Literature HL which is really a pre-university programme with the complexity of first year college literature programmes.

September 3-29th TEXT 2

REGENERATION PAT BARKER Penguin UK (1 June 2008)

Ongoing August - December 
TEXT 3

Ulysses  JAMES JOYCE  Penguin UK (28 March 2000)
ISBN-10: 0141030933
ISBN-13: 978-0141030937

ASSESSMENT  - Formative Assessment in class through discussion and short assignments. Summative assessment through written work during the first quarter on texts 1 and 2. 

Other Topics:    Introduction to Literary Theory and application of those skills through practice and assessment.
Paper 1 Unseen Text Literary Essay Practice.
Resources - Prof Culler's book on Literary Threory

Mr Hoye's website and click on CRITICAL THEORY in the margin. Click on this link 
http://mrhoyesibwebsite.com/

First homework - Read the different versions of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD on Mr Hoye's website. Be prepared to come to class and explain what you learned to the class.

Second Homework -  Write a short report of 200 words on the ideas of Derrida regarding Deconstruction.

September - Third Homework - Essay on "The God of Small Things"

September - Fourth Homework - Essay on "Regeneration" by Pat Barker - World War 1 Poetry.

MASSOLIT: Ibsen and A Doll's House

Feeding on Dreams: Ariel Dorfman's message to the young who want change

Ariel Dorfman and "Death and the Maiden"

Thank you to the Khan Academy who posted this very informative video on youtube. It's interesting that General Pinochet was willing to kidnap General Shneider even though Shneider was opposed to Allende's Marxist policies. He supported the democratic process but the fear of Allende's communist views prompted his kidnapping and death.

Uncovering Pinochet's Secret Death Camps - The cultural context of Dorfman's Death and the Maiden

CIA, Chile & Allende DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

The Performance and Historical Context for Greek Tragedy

     

Tragic Terms in Action

Medea and the plight of a Foreign Woman in Greece

Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote

Waiting for Godot full play and links to great essay questions.

Thanks to a teacher in Zurich who has posted excellent essay titles on this website:

https://ibenglishliterature.wordpress.com/about/external-assessment/paper-2/waiting-for-godot/godot-essay-questions/

PHILOSOPHY - Ludwig Wittgenstein

An Introduction to Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks A Macat Sociol...

They Say She Must Be From Another Country

THEY’LL SAY: ‘SHE MUST BE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY’
When I can’t comprehend
why they’re burning books
or slashing paintings,
when they can’t bear to look
at god’s own nakedness,
when they ban the film
and gut the seats to stop the play
and I ask why
they just smile and say,
‘She must be
from another country.’

When I speak on the phone
and the vowel sounds are off
when the consonants are hard
and they should be soft,
they’ll catch on at once
they’ll pin it down
they’ll explain it right away
to their own satisfaction,
they’ll cluck their tongues
and say,
‘She must be
from another country.’

When my mouth goes up
instead of down,
when I wear a tablecloth
to go to town,
when they suspect I’m black
or hear I’m gay
they won’t be surprised,
they’ll purse their lips
and say,
‘She must be
from another country.’

When I eat up the olives
and spit out the pits
when I yawn at the opera
in the tragic bits
when I pee in the vineyard
as if it were Bombay,
flaunting my bare ass
covering my face
laughing through my hands
they’ll turn away,
shake their heads quite sadly,
‘She doesn’t know any better,’
they’ll say,
‘She must be
from another country.’

Maybe there is a country
where all of us live,
all of us freaks
who aren’t able to give
our loyalty to fat old fools,
the crooks and thugs
who wear the uniform
that gives them the right
to wave a flag,
puff out their chests,
put their feet on our necks,
and break their own rules.

But from where we are
it doesn’t look like a country,   
it’s more like the cracks
that grow between borders
behind their backs.
That’s where I live.
And I’ll be happy to say,
‘I never learned your customs.
I don’t remember your language
or know your ways.
I must be
from another country.’
© Imtiaz Dharker
From: I Speak for the Devil
Publisher: Penguin Books India, 2003
ISBN: 014-303089-2

Post Colonial Theory

Orientalism: How the West views the rest of the world

1. Introduction

Albert Camus on nihilism

Camus In Ten Minutes

Introduction to Existentialism

IOP HL LIST APRIL 24TH 2018

1. Saniyya Aggarwal: The Road
2. Farhan Mistry: The Road
3. Devansh Gupta: The Road
4. Aryan Khanna: The Road
5. Tarini Tiwari: Enduring Love
6. Alisha Vohra: The Road
7. Arianna Patel: The Road
8. Avanti Sheth: The God of Small Things
9. Milena Waelde: The God Of Small Things
10. Vipasha Shah: Pending.

Professor Edith Hall on Euripides' Medea

Edith Hall on Euripidean Tragedy - everyday Greek, use of 'gods' on stage...

Methodology: An Introduction to Literary Theory

What is Literary Criticism?

IOP Advice

Enduring love. Joe x Jed

GRADE 12 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT CLASSES -

Students are encouraged to  come in pairs or small groups 
Students are welcome to make appointments for extra support especially in small groups with topics requested by email in advance😀

1. MONDAY 3PM - 430PM
2. TUESDAY 12 NOON -130PM
3. WEDNESDAY 2PM - 430PM 
4. THURSDAY   1030am -130pm
5. FRIDAY        1030am -1230am

1. Introduction to Literary Theory - Prof Paul Fry Yale University

How to survive the Extended Essay!?

Oleanna Monologue by Ella Gabriel (David Mamet)

Oleanna Monologue- Carol

WILTP: Oleanna

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)

Entirely - poem by Louis MacNeice

FILM by Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton

EXTENDED ESSAY STUDENTS DIPLOMA CLASS OF 2019

1. MILENA   DISGRACE COETZEE
2. SANIYYA    THE COLLECTOR
3. ZAHIR         THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
4. ARIESA         BURNT SHADOWS

IOP TEXTS HL GROUP

1. Saniyya Aggarwal: The Road
2. Farhan Mistry: The Road
3. Devansh Gupta: The Road
4. Aryan Khanna: The Road
5. Tarini Tiwari: Enduring Love
6. Alisha Vohra: The Road
7. Arianna Patel: The Road
8. Avanti Sheth: The God of Small Things
9. Milena Waelde: The God Of Small Things
10. Vipasha Shah: Pending.

IOP TEXTS SELECTED BY GRADE 11 SL Starting Thursday May 3rd

JAI VIR  - ENDURING LOVE

Amartya and Anshul- The Road- Creative- Extra Scene

Ariesa - Enduring Love- Creative - Extra scene

Harnoor  - The Road - Analytical 

Jayna - The Road - Analytical with elements of creative 

Diva with Saumya and Swetha - Enduring Love- Creative- Jed and Joe extra scene

Neha-The God of Small Things- Creative- Monologue -PREMISE GOST - Extra scene - Mamachi recites a monologue reflecting on her life through the year.

Shwetha with Diva and Saumya- Enduring Love- Creative- Jed and Joe extra scene

Saumya with Diva and Swetha - Enduring Love- Creative- Jed and Joe extra scene

Avantica - The Road - Creative 

Zahir - The Road - Creative 

Param- The Road

Anshul and Amartya- The Road- Creative- Extra Scene

Beckett Waiting for Godot - Beckett directs his play

https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/staging-beckett/2014/09/04/becketts-hammersmith-home-takes-a-long-pause/

The History of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" (1994)

Orwell and Beckett understood the importance of language as both communication and misdirection.

Protester attacked while leaving Trump rally - can Beckett and Orwell help us understand how the manipulation of language can deliberately mislead others?

Is language a form of communication to help us understand each other better or is it a form of power and control?

In our time is language being used in an inflammatory way to provoke feelings of difference and hatred of those with whom we disagree?

LITERATURE - Samuel Beckett

WHY DOES BECKETT HIGHLIGHT THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN regarding the death of Jesus?

What is the story of the Two Thieves on the Cross during the CRUCIFIXION of Jesus on the Cross? 
Beckett's characters discuss why some of the 4 Evangelists (writers of the gospels, do not even mention this popular story of the repentant thief and the unrepentant thief.)
In the aftermath of World War 2, philosophers and writers search for truth and meaning.... but even  holy books do not agree on ONE GRAND NARRATIVE ..... narratives are fragmented and more personal ..... we cannot trust grand narratives....

WAITING FOR GODOT 

Oleanna (Play) Plot & Characters | StageAgent

Oleanna (Play) Plot & Characters | StageAgent: Oleanna plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.

Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot at San Quentin

"Waiting for Godot" Explained with Philosophy | Philosophy Tube

John Guare, Playwright of Six Degrees of Separation

Postmodernism Part 1

MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING BY VIKTOR FRANKL

Orientalism as a Tool of Colonialism 1/4

Edward Said - An Introduction to Orientalism

Chapman University Center for Creative Writing - The John Fowles Center.

https://www.chapman.edu/research/institutes-and-centers/john-fowles-center/index.aspx

John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to Receive Honorary Doctor of Arts at Chapman University

Patrick Stewart as Macbeth ("Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow")

Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

"Waiting for Godot" Explained with Philosophy | Philosophy Tube

W.B.Yeats - An Irish Airman Forsees His Death

Waiting for Godot full play

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

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

IOP Advice

The IOP tips

Ian McEwan on his novels as A-level set texts

Enduring Love - Trailer

12. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 YALE

Video Summary - Much Ado About Nothing

"Sigh No More" from Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

'Much Ado About Nothing': Act 1 Scene 1 MR BRUFF SUMMARY

Much Ado About Nothing character map

"Much Ado About Nothing" (synopsis of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Noth...

Much Ado About Nothing - Characters and Theme GCSE Revision

Much Ado About Nothing Animated ACT 1 Scene 1

"Much Ado About Nothing" | Theme 1: Overview & Analysis | 60second Recap®

The Road - Visual Essay

SYMBOLISM - THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy - AP LANG ��

UCLA Cormac McCarthy Expert Discusses "The Road"

Cormack McCarthy - The Road (trailer)

Cormac McCarthy Interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show

The Great Gatsby -- final paragraphs recited as poetry (what does the no...

Lightning bolt death changed my life - PAUL AUSTER - AUTHOR - THE MUSIC OF CHANCE

The Road Book Review

Equilibrium (2002) Official Trailer #1 - Christian Bale Movie HD

The Making of "The Road 2009"

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)

Ascent Of Man, episode 11 - Knowledge Or Certainty

[Full Movie] Oleanna (1994)

Waiting for Godot PLAY TO FILM AND MICHAEL SINCLAIR ESSAY ON GODOT.

CLICK BELOW FOR MICHAEL SINCLAIR EXCELLENT ESSAY ON "WAITING FOR GODOT"


http://www.samuel-beckett.net/L2BeckEssay.html