IOPs to stop on Wednesday evening and resume in January

1. Dear students, an old football injury means I must go into hospital for a minor operation. I will be in school tomorrow and orals will take place on Wednesday as planned.
2. From Thursday until your exams you can use English classes to work as follows: 
3. Work on your essays and upload to turnitin.com website
4. If there is a problem with turnitin then you may email me the essay.
5. Revise your skills for TSLTT for Paper 1 for your exam
6. Read "Waiting for Godot" and watch the film on my blog on your second reading
7. Read "A Doll's House" - holiday work
8. Read "The Stranger" - holiday work
9. We will meet on a special Saturday in January to complete the IOPs.
10. I hope to be back in school in about two weeks but will update you on the blog.
11. I will be back online by Sunday December 4th.
12. NO visits please, I rather that you all focus on your revision at this busy time, my situation is not serious but it can't be delayed. Sorry for this unexpected disruption to our programme.

Eng Essays due in December - save it on your computer first

Hi everyone, if you have not joined my class on turnitin, don't try now as we need to adjust some of the settings. Complete your essays as per the schedule and I will inform you in class when the site is available to my students again. It seems that the school has reached its limit under the license and we need to wait a few days for teachers to remove expired classes. It will be ready by Dec 1st. If you are already enrolled on the site you can upload your essay as soon as you wish. Thanks and sorry for the confusion.

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

death of the author

MR.C.'s TOK Blog: Second Quarter Grade TOK ESSAY due Wed Dec 7th

MR.C.'s TOK Blog: Second Quarter Grade TOK ESSAY due Wed Dec 7th

Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Beckett 1/6

Waiting for Godot

WAITING FOR GODOT New York

ASSESSMENT FOR SECOND QUARTER GRADE

Nov -Dec Writing-Assessment HL and SL

2 written essays and one short blog post on the online book club as a comment.
Blog online book review 100-150 words, this is separate to the essays.
Write a short review of any book that you have read in the last 12 months outside the course - do not use the same books as your IOP or the essays below.

SL AND HL STUDENTS WILL HAVE 2 ESSAYS TO be posted on www.turnitin.com  
Details re turnitin will be explained in class. You may start work on Bukowski on a word document which can be uploaded next weekend. Turnitin page is now open so please ask me in class for demonstration and class codes.

Essay 1: Due Monday November 28th - all students must write on Bukowski.

Discuss the themes and imagery of Bukowski’s “Genius of the Crowd”.
Use TSLTT but explore your reactions to the poem as your primary focus. Be frank about your own feelings in response to the poem but always refer to the text to support your ideas. Quotes in each paragraph to support your topic sentence are essential.
1000-1200 words - Note if your IOP is next week you may submit your essay on Sunday 4th, if your IOP is in the second week, then submit it by Monday November 28th. Congrats to Kush who has already submitted his first essay.
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For your second essay, do ONE of the following:


Essay 2 Due Sunday December 11th
Essay A - Literary Movements and Critical Theory.
Explain in your own words the key ideas in the following literary movements:

Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism.

You must illustrate your answer with reference to at least one writer from each movement. You may use any texts both on and off the course except IOP texts.

OR 

 Essay B - "Waiting for Godot" is a play about the human condition. To what extent do the opening words, 'nothing to be done' suggest the frailty of human beings when confronted with an indifferent and sometimes cruel universe? Refer to the play in support of your ideas and quote vigorously to illustrate your response to the text.

OR 

 Essay C

Compare and contrast two novels you have read outside the course.  

Discuss the titles, structure, language, themes and tone of the works. How are the characters portrayed? Is there a narrator? If appropriate you should apply some of the ideas in Mr Hoye's Critical Theory website as discussed in class. eg Dominant reading, alternative readings etc Quotations to illustrate your ideas will increase your mark when integrated logically with the paragraph structure of your essay.

You may use these websites and others in your research.


Dr White's website:

http://bw1950.com/2.html

 Mr Hoye's website:

http://www.mrhoyesibwebsite.com/

Please acknowledge your online sources in any work done as you would with any other text.
Marking rubric will be the Paper 1Grid,

Sonnet 116 Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Will Shakespeare

"The Genius of the Crowd" by Charles Bukowski (poetry reading)

This is a pessimistic view of human nature. It's powerful writing and has provoked strong reactions from students. However, it's only ONE view of the world and it's important to remember that writers are as diverse a group as any other group of people. Think of all the different types of personalities you know in school or among your family.
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets is one way that I maintain emotional balance in my life. There are dark angry moments but he never loses his faith in the power of love. So do look at my post on Shakespeare's sonnets too!

Visit my TOK blog too!

Check out my TOK blog:

http://mrctok.blogspot.com/

Beckett and Kafka.(Critical Essay) - TriQuarterly | HighBeam Research

Beckett and Kafka.(Critical Essay) - TriQuarterly | HighBeam Research

Four Square -New Drama Production from Silly Point Mumbai

FOUR SQUARE - a SiLLy PoiNt Production.

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Time	Tuesday, November 22 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location	NCPA
Created By	SiLLy PoiNt Productions, Farrah Engineer
More Info	FOUR SQUARE Tuesday 22nd November, 2011 - 7pm. at NCPA, Nariman Point. A set of 4 plays Written by Meherzad Patel. (The Class Act, Rusty Screws, Like Dat Only) Monster Date Directed by Danesh Khambata Cast: Preetika Chawla, Hormuz Bana. Bang Bang Directed by Meherzad Patel Cast: Danesh Razvi, Siddharth Merchant, Anam Vadgama, Neville Dadina, Kartik Khanna, Nirali Trivedi. Listen Directed by Meherzad Patel Cast: Mihir Mehra, Siddharth Bhammar, Danesh Irani, Sajeel Parakh LATE! Directed by Meherzad Patel Cast: Siddharth Merchant, Mihir Mehra, Anoushka Jehani, Danesh Irani, Sajeel Parakh, Danesh Khambata.

The Kite Runner (official movie trailer)

Grade X1 Book Club - share what you are reading here

'In The Line of Fire" by Pervez Musharaff and "The Attack" by Yasmina Khadra, "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. These are the books I have read most recently outside our course.
I encourage all students to read books outside the course, reading good writers is one of the best ways to improve your mind and your critical writing skills for English, ToK and the EE.
 A student recommended "Sophie's World" and I have ordered it from flipkart.
Use the library - it's a great resource and the staff are keen to help students.

Has anyone read this book? What do you know about Ruth  Praber Jhabvala?