Sunday, 26 August 2018
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!
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
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.
Monday, 13 August 2018
Friday, 10 August 2018
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
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.
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