Updated Schedule- February 27th

Monday, February 27nd: Interactive Oral Activity #2- Ivan Denisovich with Reflective Statement Writing

Tuesday, February 28th: Supervised Writing (Stage 3) over Ivan Denisovich. 

Wednesday, March 1st: Video- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
                                        - Grammar practices (USA TEST PREP). Due by Monday, March 6th

Thursday, March 2nd: 

1. Read both the New York Times article on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's biography AND "When GGM met Castro" articles found under the Chronicle links. Take good notes. Start the speculation into writing influences and style.

2. Read 3-24 in Chronicle. Make thorough annotations. By now you should know what to be looking for in a text.

Monday, March 6th: 

1. Read the two links on Magical Realism and take very good notes. Read the background link first and then onto origins of GGM's Magical Realism.

2. Read 25-71 for Wednesday, March 7th. QUIZ

Class today: Wednesday

I got struck down this morning with a terrible migraine. I seriously had my mother-in-law have to pick me up this morning.  So this is fabulous.

1. All is postponed until Friday. We will make it work. Just be ready to go!
2 You can use the time to prepare for the IOA.. the Reflective Statement... the supervised writing or read Chronicle. Just be good and stay busy. I really appreciate your flexibility and fabulousness.

I am so sorry for the wrench in our schedule.

Class Schedule: February 15th-March 1st

OUR SCHEDULE: 

Wednesday, February 15th: Symbols, Motifs, and Themes in Ivan.  Now that we have addressed the obvious... what is NOT so obvious? Responses due to Google Classroom by end of the day.

Thursday, February 16th:
1. Review sample Reflective Statement. Highlight statements that indicate how the students actively developed understanding in the IOA. Make note of the statements that indicate where the student started at the beginning of the Oral... how she developed understanding.. how it connects to understanding of the text.
Reflective Statement Sample

2. Reread YOUR personal Reflective Statements marking for indications of growth and development in first Interactive Oral.

To consider first:

• To what extent did you understand the different contexts (biographical, social,historical, artistic) which helped shape the work going into the IOA?
• How satisfactorily did you articulate these in the interactive oral? (Think about the ‘what’and the ‘when’).
• To what extent did you interpret these different contexts that were discussed in the IOA? (Think about the ‘why’and the ‘how’). 
• A personal response is required here. What stimulated you most of all, and why? Relate your points to the works under discussion; make the connections between your experiences and those explored in the text relevant and appropriate. 
• What new angles came from your classmates as well as yourself (remember: the discussion is ‘interactive’, and you should show how you are learning from others). 

To revise:

• Look at each sentence. How is it functioning? As a summary of the Interactive Oral? Demonstrating growth of knowledge? Connecting seminar to text?
• Are you sitting with too much summary? Too much discussion of the text? Is the statement about how you developed cultural knowledge through out the seminar? 
• What needs to be revised?

3. Make revisions to develop the statement more about the growth and development of knowledge than summary of what happened.
4. You will turn in your original, marked text on Friday to the sub.

** Ivan group members. We all need the practice, so please go through the sample piece and then construct your reflection in the sample's image.
*** If you need to jog your memory, I have posted 14 minutes of your IOA under "IOA Links"

Typed revision due back to Google Classroom on Friday, February 17th.

Friday, February 17th:
1. Revised Reflective Statements due to Google Classroom by the end of class.
2. Use time to work on 2nd IOA readings.

NEXT FEW WEEKS:

Tuesday, February 21st: Review primary text for connections to secondary texts on Education and Religion for IOA #2

Wednesday, February 22nd: Interactive Oral Activity #2- Ivan Denisovich with Reflective Statement Writing

Friday, February 23rd: Review literary devices and examples getting ready for the Supervised Writing.

Monday, February 27th: Supervised Writing (Stage 3) over Ivan Denisovich. 

Tuesday, February 28th: 

1. Read both the New York Times article on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's biography AND "When GGM met Castro" articles found under the Chronicle links. Take good notes. Start the speculation into writing influences and style.

2. Read 3-24 in Chronicle. Make thorough annotations. By now you should know what to be looking for in a text.

Wednesday, March 1st: 

1. Read the two links on Magical Realism and take very good notes. Read the background link first and then onto origins of GGM's Magical Realism.

2. Read 25-71 for Friday, March 3rd.

Class today: February 15th

1. We will be working today with symbolism, motifs, and themes in Ivan. We will be looking beyond the obvious examples to discover more immersed examples.

2. Looking over our Reflective Writing, we need to take another swing at the writing  portion. We are going to do another Interactive Oral (Socratic Seminar) next Thursday, February over Ivan Denisovich, which will give us the opportunity to reflect on the DEVELOPMENT of cultural and contextual considerations on Solzhenitsyn. ALL STUDENTS will WRITE.

The two major topics will be:
Education and Religion

Your secondary sources:
1. What I Saw and Learned in the Kolyma Camps: This link will take you to Varlam Shalamov's intriguing list of revelations about the "education" that comes from living in the Kolyma Prison Camps. Read the PDF pages 1-3.
2. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Pilgrim in Life and Literature

You will all be responsible for printing off the texts and annotating them thoroughly. You will EACH need to bring higher level questions that are written with the purpose of exploring:

HOW WAS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURAL AND CONTEXTUAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE WORK DEVELOPED THROUGH THE INTERACTIVE ORAL

Happy Valentine's Day! February 14th

Symbolism: The use of concrete objects that represent abstract ideas. 

Symbols in Ivan Denisovich: 
1. The spoon
2. Bread
3. Tsezar's parcel

Motif: An image, sound, action that have symbolic significance that help develop the theme of the work. 

Motifs in Ivan Denisovich: 
1. Light
2. Lack of privacy
3. The cold

Theme: The universal message of a literary work, which is underlying and must be inferred by the reader.

To determine theme~
1. Consider the major topics/issues of human existence (Love, birth, death, war, friendship, loss, fear, suffering, power, hope, judgment, escape, greed, temptation, deception, conformity, nationalism, etc.)
THESE ALONE ARE NOT THEME!!
2. Ask what the author is saying about this issue..  What is the author teaching the reader about this issue?
3. Expand this issue into a statement about life

4 major Thematic Issues in Ivan Denisovich: 
1. Hope
2. Time
3. Power
4. Family

FEBRUARY 15TH- Supervised Writing- Ivan 

February 13th

From your practice from last week, you will be developing a literary claim for the following literary devices:
1. Characterization
2. Archetypes
3. Style (component that determines style conclusion... diction.. tone.. voice.. dialogue.. etc.)
4. Historical Context
You will do a rough outline for each of these literary devices that will look like: (You will have 4 of these. 1 for each device)
I: Literary Claim (must be arguable. not a statement of identification. must include the significance of the usage of device)
   A. Specific textual example #1 (Cited text)
   - Warrant (explaining the connection of the text back to your argument
   B. Specific textual example #2 (Cited text)
-     Warrant (explaining the connection of the text back to your argument
* Concluding Statement
KEEP IN MIND... for your Supervised Writing this will be only the bare bones start of your writing... you will obviously have more textual examples, and warrants. The process for the claim and concluding statement will be the same.

Turn into Google Classroom by February 14th.

For Monday, February 13th

1. Please read the following article on Solzhenitsyn's style: Solzhenitsyn's Literary Style.

2. Start collecting notes on Sozhenitsyn's writing style as seen in Ivan... Remember, to examine style, you will look to DICTION.. TONE... MOOD... SYNTAX... VOICE... DIALOGUE... IMAGERY...

SUPERVISED WRITING IS FEBRUARY 15TH. 

Supervised Writing-

The aim of the prompts is to encourage independent critical writing and to stimulate thinking about an assignment topic.

The students will choose one of their pieces of supervised writing and develop that into the essay required for submission. There must be an apparent connection between the supervised writing and the final essay, but students are encouraged to provide their own title and to develop the chosen prompt in an independent direction.

Formal requirements

Length                  There is no specified length.

Submission            The original piece of supervised writing is not submitted.

Assessment           Supervised writing is not awarded a mark but may be used to authenticate the individuality of a student’s work.

Administration      The task is “open book” and students should have access to the literary works being used for the writing. Annotations are acceptable, but students should not have access to secondary material.

All pieces of supervised writing must be kept on file at the school.

Planning for Stage 3

Introduction to the Supervised Writing- Stage 3

February 6th

1. Character analysis in Ivan Denisovich- Asking the WHAT? HOW? WHY?

2. Apply examples of ARCHETYPES in Ivan- put into your notes.

3. Review the ample resources for the REFLECTIVE STATEMENT. 

4. Read and annotate secondary materials for upcoming IOA. Prepare questions of your own. BE READY!

For class: February 6th

1. Continue the development of your character analysis from class on Friday.
  Ivan- Group 1
  Captain Buynovsky- Group 2
  Tsezar- Group 3
  Alyoshka- Group 4
  Tyurin- Group 5

2. Read over the ARCHETYPE handout: Archetypes in Literature
    Put ideas into your notes.
    Start to think about the application in Ivan. 
   

Characterization in Ivan Denisovich: February 2nd

For Friday, February 3rd, you will need to have thorough notes on 4 characters from Ivan Denisovich. 1 being a major character (Hmm.. wonder who?) and 3 minor characters.  Again, the more notes and preparation you do NOW... the easier future assessments will be for you!! Seriously, people.

Please reference both direct and indirect characterization in your analysis.

Remember, STEAL:
S: Speech
T: Thoughts
E: Effect on others
A: Actions
L: Looks

WHAT? Your findings  
HOW?  S.T.E.A.L.    
WHY? Author's purpose for this characterization 

Upcoming schedule: 
February 3rd: Characterization in Ivan 
February 8th:  Interactive Oral and WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT- Ivan (Stage 1 and 2)
February 10th: Archetypes in Ivan 
February 13th: Solzhenitsyn's style in Ivan
February 14th: Symbolism and Motifs in Ivan 
February 15th: Supervised Writing (40-50 minutes) Ivan (Stage 3) 
February 16th: Start Chronicle of a Death Foretold 

Stage 1: Interactive Oral

Each student will participate in an interactive oral over one of the Part One works. Students will be assigned to a group and each group will receive an interactive oral topic.

Interactive Orals will take place on designated days.  Absence on your designated day will result in being assigned a new topic and presenting it individually.

This interactive oral will be assessed using the IB Oral Presentation scoring guide.

Stage 2 – Reflective Statement

After each interactive oral, the rest of the class will write a reflective statement answering the following question:

How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral?

Each reflective statement should be between 300-400 words and must be written in class. These reflective statements will be kept on file by the IB teacher.

The reflective statement will be assessed according to Criterion A on the IB Written Assignment scoring guide.

Stage 3 – Supervised Writing

For each work studied in Part One, one piece of writing produced during class time is required. Students will choose one topic from a provided list, choosing one he/she finds interesting and potentially worth pursuing for their 1200-1500 word essay. You will have 40-50 minutes to produce this writing and you  may use your text for reference. This writing will be collected at the end of the writing period.

All getting you ready for Stage 4- Production of the Essay.