Monday 31 March 2014
Sunday 30 March 2014
GRADE X1 ROADMAP MARCH APRIL MAY and Final Grade June 2014
CLASSWORK AND HOMEWORK FOR Q4 - The Q4 Grade will be based on world literature tasks performance, assignments on "King Lear" and several Paper 1 tasks. There will be a summer exam in June based on "King Lear".
There will also be a review of "King Lear" comparing 2 different performances, one at NCPA and one of the late Michael Hordern on DVD. There will be a short book review in our online book club.
WORLD LITERATURE COMPLETION in April
- Final exploration of "The Reader" in class with Interactive Oral and Reflective Statement. April 9th
- Completion of Supervised Writing Task. April 11th
- Study of Works in Translation Assessment Criteria (Rubric)
- Selection of text and selection of title for world literature essay
- Completion of 1000 words by April 18th
- Completion of first draft as part of Q4 Grade (turnitin ) Friday May 2nd
OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES FOR APRIL -MAY-JUNE
- Monday April 21st - "King Lear" -special introduction by our Principal, Mr Gardner
- Classes will be conducted by Mr C during April-May
- WEDNESDAY APRIL 23RD SPECIAL CLASSES TO MARK SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY
- FRIDAY MAY 30TH NCPA THEATRE SCREENING OF
King Lear
Theatre ScreeningAcademy Award winner Sam Mendes returns to the National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale (Timon of Athens, Collaborators) in the title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy. An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to their eloquence in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing and Lear’s world descends into chaos.- click below for review from THE GUARDIAN.
- http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jan/24/king-lear-olivier-theatre-review
Friday 28 March 2014
Thursday 27 March 2014
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Curiosity and Reading | Vlog (+playlist)
Great video about reading, curiousity and the human condition.
Sunday 16 March 2014
How is the academic discourse constructed? Academics publish but they also meet in workshops like this!
The School of Criticism and Theory
at Cornell University
2014 Summer Session: June 15 - July 25
http://sct.cornell.edu/files/2013/08/SCT_Brochure2014.E-view.reduced-19s5svt.pdf
An international program of study with leading figures in critical thought The School of Criticism and Theory was founded in 1976 by a group of leading scholars and critical theorists in the conviction that an understanding of theory is fundamental to humanistic studies. Today, in an unparalleled summer campus experience, the SCT offers professors and advanced graduate students of literature and related social sciences a chance to work with preeminent figures in critical thought—exploring the relationships among literature, history, art, anthropology and the law; examining the role of ideological and cultural movements; and reassessing theoretical approaches that have emerged over the last fifty years. Cornell also offers participants the resources of one of the great research libraries in the United States.
MR.C.'s TOK Blog- BD Somani International School -Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: IB EXTENDED ESSAY RESOURCES Assessment Critieria Tips etc
MR.C.'s TOK Blog- BD Somani International School -Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: IB EXTENDED ESSAY RESOURCES Assessment Critieria Tips etc
EXTENDED ESSAY TIPS - CLICK ON LINK TO TOK BLOG ABOVE
Thursday 13 March 2014
GROUP 1 IB EXTENDED ESSAY ENGLISH LITERATURE TIPS FROM IB EE GUIDE 2013
OFFICIAL IB EXTENDED ESSAY HANDBOOK RULES AND REGULATIONS
ONLINE CLICK HERE http://library.tedankara.k12.tr/IB/IB_Extended_Essay_guide.pdf
ONLINE CLICK HERE http://library.tedankara.k12.tr/IB/IB_Extended_Essay_guide.pdf
From the IB Extended Essay Guide - how to select a topic and then create a RESEARCH QUESTION.
Category 1: Studies of a literary work(s)
originally written in the language in which the essay is presented.
The essay must be based
on the literature of countries where the language is spoken (that is, all works
discussed will originally have been written in the language of the essay).
The following five
examples of research questions for group 1, category 1 extended essays are
intended as guidance only.
Language English
Topic Dance in Jane
Austen’s novels
Research question
“What are the role and the
significance of dance in Pride
and Prejudice and Emma?”
Language English
Topic Death in Emily
Brontë’s and Emily Dickinson’s poetry
Research question
“How is the subject of
death treated in selected poems by Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson?”
Language French
Topic Fiction and history
in Blaise Cendrars’ L’Or
Research question
“How and why does
Cendrars modify facts and rewrite history in his first novel?”
Language Danish
Topic The presentation of
nature in poetry
Research question
“Perceptions of nature in
Danish poetry of the 1890s.”
Language Italian
Topic Imagery and themes
in the work of Giovanni Pascoli
Research question
“The theme of the nest in
the poetry of Giovanni Pascoli.”
Tuesday 11 March 2014
ISABEL ALLENDE - The House Of The Spirits -
books.google.co.in/books?isbn=0553273914
Isabel Allende - 1986 - No preview - More editions
Tracesthe lives of the Truebas family, starting with clairvoyant Clara de
Valle's summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban
Trueba, and following their lives through which they suffer and triumph.
Monday 3 March 2014
3RD QUARTER GRADE - UPDATE
3RD QUARTER GRADE 4 ELEMENTS
You should read and re-read the novel. Also visit the special page on Chronicle on this blog and post one comment on the most interesting character (70-100 words).
TASK 1.
Post on the Chronicle Page by Monday March 10th. Who is the most interesting character in the novel?
TASK 2. INTERACTIVE ORAL. WEDNESDAY MARCH 12TH. HL1 AND HL2.
Here are some questions to help get you started on a line of enquiry - based on a discussion of the CULTURAL CONTEXT of the novel - South American Machismo Patriarchy and Feminism, The Bishop as symbol of religion and God and patriarchy and indifference..... Angela - villain or victim of male hypocrisy?
Bayordo - kind rich man or victim of societal hypocrisy forced into desperate strategies?
The brothers - not very intelligent, not very cruel just responding to the expectations of their culture -
The Judge - representative of justice or construct of the macho culture....
(Think of more ideas as you prepare at home and help everyone in your group deepen their knowledge.)
TASK 3.
REFLECTIVE STATEMENT MUST BE UPLOADED TO TURNITIN BY MONDAY 17TH 350 -400
TASK 4.
Note you must also post a REVIEW on the online book club on a book outside the curriculum of 350-500 words by Tuesday 18th March.
On Monday 24th March we will begin "The Reader" - students should watch the documentary "Hitler's Children" on the page on this blog assigned to the novel.
We will complete our process in April and move onto "King Lear" - see the special page on "King Lear".
We will also focus on Paper 1 Unseen Commentaries in April -May.
Any questions? Please see me in class, in the library or email me :)
You should read and re-read the novel. Also visit the special page on Chronicle on this blog and post one comment on the most interesting character (70-100 words).
TASK 1.
Post on the Chronicle Page by Monday March 10th. Who is the most interesting character in the novel?
TASK 2. INTERACTIVE ORAL. WEDNESDAY MARCH 12TH. HL1 AND HL2.
Here are some questions to help get you started on a line of enquiry - based on a discussion of the CULTURAL CONTEXT of the novel - South American Machismo Patriarchy and Feminism, The Bishop as symbol of religion and God and patriarchy and indifference..... Angela - villain or victim of male hypocrisy?
Bayordo - kind rich man or victim of societal hypocrisy forced into desperate strategies?
The brothers - not very intelligent, not very cruel just responding to the expectations of their culture -
The Judge - representative of justice or construct of the macho culture....
(Think of more ideas as you prepare at home and help everyone in your group deepen their knowledge.)
TASK 3.
REFLECTIVE STATEMENT MUST BE UPLOADED TO TURNITIN BY MONDAY 17TH 350 -400
TASK 4.
Note you must also post a REVIEW on the online book club on a book outside the curriculum of 350-500 words by Tuesday 18th March.
On Monday 24th March we will begin "The Reader" - students should watch the documentary "Hitler's Children" on the page on this blog assigned to the novel.
We will complete our process in April and move onto "King Lear" - see the special page on "King Lear".
We will also focus on Paper 1 Unseen Commentaries in April -May.
Any questions? Please see me in class, in the library or email me :)
The Man Who Didn’t Salute Hitler
Joining the Nazi party purely in hopes of finding a job, German August Landmesser was eventually sentenced to two years at a labor camp for falling in love with a Jewish woman whom he tried to marry. But before he reached prison, this famous photograph captured Landmesser very public protest against the Nazi regime when he didn’t salute Hitler during a public rally in 1936. And so August Landmesser is now remembered in history as the man who didn’t salute Hitler.
Love overrode the anti-Semitism that swept throughout the country, though it wasn’t strong enough to save his would-be bride Irma Eckler from Nazi persecution. Like so many others, Eckler’s life came to a tragic and premature end at a death camp. Landmesser was forced to join a penal military unit and died in the war also.
source http://all-that-is-interesting.com/august-landmesser-no-salute-hitler
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