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Monday, August 22, 2016

Due: August 22nd The Study of Literature and The Road

Today we have been introduced to the first assessment in the IB Programme, the Individual Oral Presentation. This will provide you a target for the skills you will need to accumulate and hone over the next few weeks in conjunction with The Road. 

You will become very familiar with the scoring guide found here: Individual Oral Presentation Rubric

For Tuesday, you will need to read the article:
"Lit Classes Under Attack? Standford's Joshua Landy to the Rescue"

Half of the battle of performing literary analysis is recognizing a larger purpose to the text. Therefore, in order to practice this, we need to exercise this.

From this article, I have pulled out some key statements... key quotes... addressing literature/study or literature/purpose of literature.

For Tuesday, You will need to find aspects/examples/passages of The Road that exemplify the spirit that is revealed in the statements about the purpose/goal of literature. Please put these in your notes.

The challenge is to 1. recognize an underlining goal/ purpose of literature. 2. See how that goal/purpose is achieved by McCarthy.




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