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.