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Course THROUGHLINES
Course THROUGHLINES
1. What can literature teach us about human nature?
2. How can we promote internationalism through the study of literature?
3. How can we gain appreciation for literature through the study of the writer’s craft?
4. In what way does this exploration improve critical thinking?
5. How is what we learn applicable in our own lives psychologically, sociologically and/or philosophically?
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"I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something -- a great deal -- to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds."
"I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something -- a great deal -- to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds."
--Adrienne Rich
HL Language & Literature
HL Language & Literature
Breakdown of Assessments:
External
Paper 1 (May exams of senior year) 25%
Paper 2 (May exams of senior year) 25%
Written Tasks (one from each year) 20%
Internal
IOC (Individual Oral Commentary in senior year) 15%
FOA (Further Oral Activity in junior year) 15%
Quarterly
Quarterly
What is an Intellectual Map?
What is an Intellectual Map?
At the end of each nine weeks (quarter), choose the five biggest takeaways for the grading period, and create (NO notebook paper - use blank computer paper at the least - no clip art):
Five hand-drawn images to represent the five most important things you learned (in this class/course only) this nine weeks
Color these drawings
Identify each image (label/identify it)
State relevance/value in learning what you chose as takeaways from this nine weeks.
Reflect on how you will be able to use this aspect of the course in the future.
*Disparate points for neatness & creativity
Extended Essay
Extended Essay
If You Can Think, You Can Write
Plagiarism Check - link to turnitin.com
**Check your essay regularly for any unintentional citation/plagiarism errors to avoid accidentally ending up in hot water.
Here is an evaluation guide to help with determining the credibility of a source.
Required Reading
Required Reading
Texts can be checked out from your teacher in class, ordered at tinyurl.com/IBBooks2019 (where texts will be delivered to school and distributed accordingly), or purchased independently. The ISBN numbers are provided to ensure you have the correct edition - this is important for instruction and studying.
OLEANNA by David Mamet ISBN: 978-0822213437
HAMLET by William Shakespeare ISBN: 978-0743477123
LOVE MEDICINE by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 978-0061787423
THE SOUND & THE FURY by William FaulknerISBN: 978-0679732242
Language
Language
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
Literature
Literature
''Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation,
''Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation,
a recourse against a sense of something missing.
a recourse against a sense of something missing.
But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human.
But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human.
It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.''
It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.''
― Octavio Paz
First Semester, Part 4: Literature - Critical Study
First Semester, Part 4: Literature - Critical Study
The subject guide outlines three learning outcomes for part 4, each depending on the close reading of three texts.
At the end of the course, students should be able to meet the following requirements:
Explore literary works in detail.
Analyse elements such as theme and the ethical stance or moral values of literary texts.
Understand and make appropriate use of literary terms.
Remembering Babylon
Remembering Babylon
“What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings,
“What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings,
of painful settings out into the unknown,
of painful settings out into the unknown,
pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.”
pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.”
― David Malouf
oleanna
oleanna
"I've been writing drama for about 50 years.
"I've been writing drama for about 50 years.
The more you look at it, the more complex you understand the human being is, including ourselves."
The more you look at it, the more complex you understand the human being is, including ourselves."
― David Mamet
“We can only interpret the behavior of others through the screen we create.”
“We can only interpret the behavior of others through the screen we create.”
― David Mamet
hamlet
hamlet
Worth a Listen:
Worth a Listen:
BBC Radio "In Our Time": Shakespeare's Life
Melvyn Bragg discusses what we know about the life of William Shakespeare, a tantalising conundrum that has exercised minds since the day the playwright died.
BBC Radio "In Our Time": Shakespeare's Work
Melvyn Bragg discusses whether the work of William Shakespeare is 'not of an age but for all time' or increasingly irrelevant museum pieces embalmed in out of reach language.
BBC Radio "In Our Time": Hamlet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play's context and meaning, and why it has fascinated audiences from its first performance.
2nd semester: Part 3: Literature – Texts and Contexts
2nd semester: Part 3: Literature – Texts and Contexts
The subject guide outlines learning outcomes for part 3, each depending on the close reading of three texts.
At the end of the course, students should be able to examine meaning in a text as shaped by culture: that is,
by the contexts of the circumstances of its production
by what the reader brings to it
by social context, cultural heritage and historical change.
Sunstone
Sunstone
"Everything is language."
"Everything is language."
― Octavio Paz
Top Mexican iPad app showcases poems by Nobel Prize for Literature Octavio Paz!
Love Medicine
Love Medicine
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
— Louise Erdrich
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich
The Sound & the Fury
The Sound & the Fury
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
— William Faulkner
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