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**__Assignments, week of 11 - 15 April:__**
 * Due Monday, 11 April:** read through page 10 of HOD

**Due Wednesday, 13 April:** read through page 19 of HOD; also, choose 2 - 3 individual paragraphs that you would be interested in using for a close reading (you'll only use one paragraph, but I'd like everyone to have a different paragraph, so it would benefit you to choose a couple of runner-ups as well as your preferred passage)

**Due Friday, 15 April:** read through page 31 of HOD

**__Assignments, week of 14 - 19 March:__** Tues 15 March: In-class comparative essay on DATM and either TCO / HG Thurs 17 March: Submit final WL1 topic proposal form today Mon 21 March: Complete a basic outline or compare / contrast matrix for your WL Paper 1 and select a minimum of 12 quotations (6 from each work), due in class today - The matrix is posted above under "WL Papers 1 & 2, resources" - if you choose this format, please include a thesis statement at the top of the sheet (since I didn't mention this in class, you may do it on Monday in class if you like, but choosing a solid thesis statement will - If you prefer to use a traditional outline, please include the following elements:  **5. Conclusion (this is the least important element at this point, because chances are you will modify this after you write your body paragraphs - however, including a conclusion that shows you've expanded upon the thesis statement would be helpful)**
 *  1. Intro (a statement that creates a parallel between the two works - i.e., your topic itself - and a thesis statement) **
 *  2. Aspect 1: the //weakest// of the three devices or subtopics you'll use to analyze your topic **
 *  3. Aspect 2: a somewhat stronger device or subtopic you'll use to analyze your topic **
 *  4. Aspect 3: the //strongest// of the three devices or subtopics you'll use to analyze your topic **

**__Assignments, week of 9 - 11 March:__** **Wednesday, 9 March:** Review quotation integration guidelines here, and view corrections to student samples from last week here. There will be a quiz on Wednesday for which you will need to integrate several quotations from //Death and the Maiden//.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Friday, 11 March:** Scene presentations will take place today. See below under **Tuesday, 1 March** to download the rubric & description for the assignment.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tuesday, 15 March:** In-class essay on //Death and the Maiden// (comparative topics from past IB Paper 2; you may choose either TCO or HG for your second work)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Thursday, 17 March:** Final comparative topics due today - put your topic on the WL1 Topic Proposal Form.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 28 February - 4 March:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tuesday, 1 March:** Read Act III and the afterward to //Death and the Maiden// before Tuesday's class. For Thursday's class, post a response to the quotation integration wiki question (feel free to review quotation integration guidelines here). (Work on scene presentations, due 11 March - the rubric and assignment description are here.)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Thursday, 3 March:** Before Wednesday's class, post a possible comparative topic for //Death and the Maiden// and either //The Cherry Orchard// or //Hedda Gabler// on the wiki discussion; prepare for quiz on quotation integration and apostrophes.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">World literature scene selection: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The rubric & assignment description is posted below under Tuesday's date. Scenes below have already been claimed in the class listed - e-mail me your choice, with the names of the members of your group, once you've selected.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Suggested devices and techniques to examine in your scene selection:** humor, pauses & interruptions, profanity, gestures or other physical motion, clothing, names, gender roles, lighting (difficult unless you have some lights at home you could use), music or other sound choices, facial expressions, stage setting choices, a particular symbol or motif, repetition and/or verbal tics, dramatic irony

//**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Death and the Maiden: **// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">p. 8 - 12: Mandi & Ernesto (p. 5) (repetition) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 29 - 42: Anton, Najla, Maria (p.5) (dashes, pauses, interruptions) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 43 - 45: Adrian & Ignacio (p.5) (dashes, pause, interruptions) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 67 - 68: Dani, Daniela & Mavi (p. 5) (music) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 53 - 56: Pedro & Joanna (p. 8) (profanity) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 29 - 33: Evelyn, Ricardo & Aastha (p. 8) (gender role reversal and dominance / control)

//**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hedda Gabler: **// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">p. 26 - 30: Amanda & Barbara (p. 5) (character contrast / juxtaposition) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 29 - 30: Heleny & Megan (p. 8) (manipulative body language & gestures) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 82 - 84: Andres & Terry (p. 5) (interrogation) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 84 - 86: Ernie, Jacob & Marisa (p. 8) (dashes, pauses, interruptions) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 36 - 40: Nick & Gaby (p. 8) (indirect language)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 21 - 25 February:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Monday, 21 February:** No written homework due today; please read Act I of //Death and the Maiden// before Wednesday's class.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Wednesday, 23 February:** Read Act II of //Death and the Maiden// before Friday's class.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Friday, 25 February:** Complete //Death and the Maiden// (Act III and the afterword that follows) by Tuesday's class.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 14 - 18 February:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tuesday, 15 February:** Please complete your Modernism and Norway posts, both on the discussion and the sample page.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Thursday, 16 February:** No written homework; prepare for in-class comparative essay about //Hedda Gabler// and //The Cherry Orchard//.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preparation for in-class essay on Thursday: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sample Paper 2 **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (the questions we looked at in class, from the semester 1 final exam) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comp essay structures **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (the possible comparative essay structures reviewed in class) **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 7 - 11 February:__**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Due Monday, 7 February:** Read and annotate Act III of //Hedda Gabler//. It's a good idea to post your responses to the two research topics (Ibsen's Norway and Modernism) on the wiki as well, but this is not due until later in the week.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Due Wednesday, 9 February:** Read and annotate Act IV of //Hedda Gabler//.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Due Friday, 11 February:** Post a potential comparative topic from //Hedda Gabler// and //The Cherry Orchard// to the wiki discussion. __Don't__ repeat a classmate's topic; please read the full instructions before you post. **Note: I posted an optional Hedda Gabler question called "Close Analysis: Technical elements of the text." You may answer this any time before your class meets on Thursday, 17 February.**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__//Hedda Gabler// resources:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|CUNY's analysis of the play] (please use this instead of SparkNotes, if you must seek online commentary) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Ingrid Bergman] stars in this television version from 1963 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mary Louise Parker] comments on her role as Hedda in a recent revival (a version deplored by critics) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Central Washington] provides this setting for this present-day re-imagining of //HG//

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 31 January - 4 February:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Due Tuesday, 1 February:** Read and annotate Act I of //Hedda Gabler//. A wiki question has also been posted for this act - your response to this question is optional; your scores will be recorded only if they help your grade.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 24 - 28 January:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Due Monday, 24 January:** Please post a response to the wiki question about interpretive choices in the linked video clips from //The Cherry Orchard//.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**For Wednesday, 26 January****:** You will have an hour and a half to write a commentary about a passage from the play. For help with structuring commentary, please visit the IB links page. Also, feel free to read this [|sample commentary] on //The Cherry Orchard//, or these past student papers from other texts: [|Winter Syntax, Smith] [|When I Whistle, Krispin] [|Folly, Osorio] [|Blindness, Giadach]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Rubric for in-class essay on //The Cherry Orchard//:** Your essays will be graded for standards 2 (weight 1), 3 (weight 1), 5 (weight 2), and 6 (weight 1). Please note that the IB rubric weights interpretation and analysis of literary devices (standard 6) 2, and textual knowledge (standard 5) 1. Because this is the first written commentary you've been asked to complete, I've reversed these standards to benefit your scores. The complete rubric is [|A1 written commentary rubric].

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**For Friday, 28 January:** There is no written homework for Friday. We will be reading the first act of //Hedda Gabler// together (although we may not finish). If you begin reading ahead, try to annotate your text - we'll be discussing annotation on Friday, and your annotations of Act I will be required and checked on Tuesday.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 17 - 20 January:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Due Monday, 17 January:** Please finish reading the LA Times article we began in class ("Simple, inspiring, misread" - linked on the assignment calendar under Thursday's date), then respond to the wiki question on the discussion tab.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Due Wednesday, 19 January:** Please respond to the discussion question about setting in //The Cherry Orchard//.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Assignments, week of 10 - 14 January:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Due Tuesday, 11 January:** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **//The Cherry Orchard//****:** During the vacation, please read the entire play //The Cherry Orchard// by Anton Chekov. If you forgot to get your copy from me, you can read it online [|here] or here: [|The Cherry Orchard]. Also, respond to one discussion question here on the wiki - there are 3 questions; if a question has 10 responses, you must choose another to receive credit. (Don't worry: the play is only 82 pages long, and reads very quickly. By reading it before our next meeting, we'll save valuable time that we can use when it's time to draft the World Literature papers later in the semester.)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Due Thursday, 13 January:** I told you there would be a wiki posting due Thursday, but considering that I'm behind on grading the current posts and getting feedback on the last of your notebooks and IOP scores back to some of you, I've decided to postpone that post for the following class (Monday). No written homework is due Thursday; sorry for any confusion. **However, IOCs - assigned randomly to students who have only done one commentary so far, beginning with Act I - will begin again on Thursday, so you may wish to review Act I before class.**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**IOP NOTE:** final selections for IOP topics must be posted on the wiki by **Monday 22 November**, and your completed [|IOP Topic Proposal Form] are due on **Wednesday 24 November**. However, if you are presenting on one of the first two dates (30 Nov / 2 Dec) it is strongly recommended that you do both of these things much sooner. Make sure to review the IOP Specs before finalizing your proposal.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week of 8 - 12 November **__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">We'll need most of the week to conclude the poetry presentations, but you also need to begin reading A Streetcar Named Desire. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- For Wednesday, read through page 45 (the end of Scene 2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- For Friday, read through page 84 (the end of Scene 4) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- For Tuesday, read through page 116 (the end of Scene 6)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">There will be a writing prompt on Friday based on scenes 1 - 4, and the work will be officially introduced in class (for those missing class, the PoewrPoint will be uploaded before Friday)

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week of 1 - 5 November **__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poetry presentations, continued (see schedule of presenters below)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Week of 25 - 29 October**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your only homework over the break is to familiarize yourself with your assigned poems in order to be well-prepared to finalize your presentations.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, "**[|London]**", "[|**London**]" (2 song versions) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, [|Biography] (well-done short film about his life) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, "**[|Proverbs of Hell]**" (interesting musical version by a group called Ulver) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, "**[|The Tyger]**" (without recitation - great animation) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, "**[|The Tyger]**" (song version) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, "[|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]" (medley of Blake's engravings set to music - no poetry) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, "**[|Visions of Innocence and Experience]**" (a cool Blake video, not based on a specific poem) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blake, "**The Marriage of Heaven and Hell**" [|Part 1] / [|Part 2] / [|Part 3] (old films described as "sketches of William Blake's inner life" <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coleridge, **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" [|Part 1] / [|Part 2] / Part 3 **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">(animated film with recitation) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coleridge, **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"[|Kubla Khan]" ** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keats, **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"[|Ode to a Nightingale]" **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">(artistic tribute, without recitation)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some video resources from the poetry unit ****<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">these may help you create a mental image to accompany some of the poetry

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your poetry presentations will take place on November 2nd, 4th and 8th. Blake presenters will go first, then Coleridge, then Keats - that does not mean that each of the days will be dedicated to only one poet, however.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">POETRY PRESENTATIONS: **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- I'll use the IB Oral Assessment rubric to assess your presentation. You may wish to take a look at it. Instead of the IB weights, however, each standard (2, 3, 5, 6) will be weighted 1. (See the modified //actual// rubric I'll use: Romantic poetry presentation rubric)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Your presentation should last approximately 10 minutes. It's important that you don't go longer, because we've fallen a little behind due to the short classes this week. After each presentation the class will discuss the poem, and that will take some time as well. [Groups of 2 presenting Coleridge may take 15 minutes if they wish.]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- You need to utilize some visual presentation method to present the poem to the class. PowerPoint is the obvious choice, but if you prefer to record a video or do something else creative, just fill me in on your plans in advance.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- As mentioned in class, you are welcome to show videos and recitations you find on the Internet if they are entirely relevant to your poem. However, these should occupy no more than 2 minutes of your total presentation time (less is preferable). If you find something extraordinary that is longer, choose the best parts and show them. Also, make sure you explain any video clips you use, indicating why they shed light on your interpretation of the poem(s).

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. Your recitation of the poem (or a portion / portions if it is extremely long) - this does not need to be memorized, but should be dramatic, with clear evidence that you understand the poem and know how to pronounce all the words properly <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Your explanation of the plot and main ideas / themes of the poem (you may address the historical context and / or author's biography briefly, **__if and only if you establish a clear tie between these things and the poem itself__**) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. Your exploration of the primary literary devices utilized by the poet, as well as **__their effect on the poem as a whole [to be successful, this link will be tied to the main ideas of the poem - we'll talk about examples of this after the break, but I would recommend discussing only the 4 most prominent / important devices you identify]__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. 1 - 2 proposed discussion questions about your poem for the class (you need to send these to me at least two days in advance so that I can approve them)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Your actual presentation should consist of the following: **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">* the success of your presentation depends almost wholly on your comprehension of your assigned poem(s), so if you are not certain that you understand the main ideas or themes of your poem(s), **__please ask me for help on or before the 28th.__**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poem selections, and order of presentations: **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Period 5 **__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">BLAKE (Tuesday) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 - Mandi, "London" & "The Human Abstract" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 - Maria, "The Argument" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 - Mavi, "A Little Boy Lost" & "A Poison Tree" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 - Mo, "The Tyger" & "The Lamb" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 - Terry, "Infant Sorrow," "Infant Joy," & "The Sick Rose" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 - Dani, "The Book of Urizen, Chapter II" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">7 - Brenna, "A Poison Tree" & "A Little Girl Lost" **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">COLERIDGE (Thursday) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 - Ignacio, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 - Barbara, "Christabel" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 - Ernesto, "Frost at Midnight" **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">KEATS (Thursday / Monday) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 - Najla, "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 - Daniela, "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 - Adrian, "On Autumn" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 - Amanda, "Ode to a Nightingale" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 - Anton, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" **


 * __Period 8__**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">BLAKE: **
 * 1 - Aastha, "London" & "The Human Abstract"**
 * 2 - Joanna, "A Poison Tree" & "A Little Girl Lost"**
 * 3 - Pedro, "Infant Sorrow," "Infant Joy," & "The Sick Rose"**
 * 4 - Jacob, "The Tyger" & "The Lamb"**
 * 5 - Ricardo, "The Argument"**
 * 6 - Valeria, "The Book of Urizen, Chapter II"**


 * COLERIDGE:**
 * 1 - Erni & Nick, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"**
 * 2 - Heleny & Gaby, "Christabel"**


 * KEATS:**
 * 1 - Marisa, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"**
 * 2 - Evelyn, "Ode to a Nightingale"**
 * 3 - Megan, "To Autumn"**
 * 4 - Reynel, "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be"**

__**Week of 11 - 15 October**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW due Wednesday - read the Keats selections in the packet, and re-read "Bright Star" here. **Please choose at least one of the Keats poems in the packet to mark up extensively - i.e., highlighting important phrases, noting literary devices, scanning the first few verses to determine the meter, identifying the rhyme scheme, etc.**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW due Friday - your only assignment (other than reading Keats, for Period 5) is to read the expectations for the poetry presentations (below) so that you can ask any questions you may have in class. Because we only had one hour and forty minutes (or forty minutes, for Period 5) of class this week, I've pushed the presentation dates back somewhat. They will not take place the week after the break, but the week following.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Week of 4 - 8 October**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW due Wednesday - read all of the poems by William Blake in the packet. You may read superficially or in some depth: this is up to you, but may depend in part on whether or not you are likely to be asked to do an IOC in class on Wednesday. (I'll be introducing Blake's life and work in class before the IOC's, so you will have that background to draw from.)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW due Friday - read the Coleridge selections in the packet, and re-read "Kubla Khan" here. (The Coleridge poems we're covering are very long. You may read only the first half of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Christabel" if you choose, although IOC passages may come from anywhere in these poems. Read all of "Frost at Midnight.")

__**Week of 28 September - 1 October**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW due Monday [4 October]: Read the 13-page introduction to the Romantic period, posted on the assignment calendar (you may skip the sections on The Napoleonic Wars [p3], Coping with Society's Problems [p4], Goethe [p7], and British Prose [p10-11], although I recommend reading the entire packet!); and listen to / read 3 introductory poetry selections (posted on this page)**. You should be thinking about which of the three poets you prefer (William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, and John Keats), as individual poem assignments will be made on Monday, and with any luck most people can have their first choice of poets** (although all three will need to be covered - so some may not).

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Week of 20 - 24 September (i.e., what to work on during the long weekend)**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- After you finish the novel, please post a potential IOP topic on the discussion tab - this should be done before class on Tuesday. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- As a conclusion to the //The Things They Carried// unit, you will be designing creative interpretations of the characters and situations from the book. __**You should begin your preparation for your presentation over the long weekend**__, and will also have 50 - 60 minutes in class on Tuesday the 28th to finalize your plans. **You will make your presentation on Thursday, 30 September; the [|A1 Oral Assessment Rubric] will be used to assess it.** Some options for the format of your presentation are listed below; you are welcome to come up with others that do not appear on the list. While you are not required to memorize your lines of dialogue or monologue, you may choose to do so, and if you use notes, please make sure to use them only as a guide, and not read directly from them. You may work alone, or with one classmate. **If you have any questions or want to run your idea for your presentation past me for feedback, please e-mail me - I will be in town all weekend and will get back to you as promptly as I can.**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- a dialogue between two characters of the book, either within or outside of the context of one of the stories <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- an interview of Tim O'Brien by a) you or b) one of the characters from the book, regarding any of its subject matter you choose <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- a dramatization of a scene from the book with a good deal of extra action / conversation written in to further develop the story <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- a dramatization of an additional story <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- a monologue by any character from the book, shedding light on his or her character's motivation and decisions (i.e. Norman Bowker, Azar, the middle-aged woman who thinks the baby buffalo is sad, O'Brien's daughter Kathleen, Rat Kiley, Linda, Elroy Berdahl, Martha, etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- the trial by jury of a character from the book you believe has potentially committed a serious crime
 * You may choose to present:**

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Week of 13 - 17 September** __ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- due Thursday, 16 September: in addition to reading pages 64 - 112, post (on the discussion tab above - just respond to the topic I posted) your best guess for the IOC passage(s) I'll assign on Thursday in class. **Note: I posted another teacher's very detailed IOC Guidelines on the IB links page - if you're nervous about your mini-IOCs in class, you may wish to print a copy for yourself.**

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Week of 6 - 10 September** __ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- due Monday, 6 September: group OR individual presentations on topics tangentially related to "The Bacchae" - you will have some time to prepare for your presentations in class on Thursday. Requirements - present for 5 - 10 minutes (longer for groups) about the topic you've selected, incorporating dramatic readings, visual representations, or other creative interpretations of your content. You should make clear the connection between your topic and "The Bacchae" without focusing the bulk of your presentation on that play. * The A1 Oral Assessment rubric distributed in class last week will be used to assess your presentations, using only criteria A / C / D and replacing "work" with "topic".

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**- also due Monday, 6 September:** post a potential IOP topic from "The Bacchae" on the discussion tab (above, on this page) - your suggestion will be scored based on Standard 6 (Reading Analysis)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Wednesday, 8 September: 45-minute in-class essay on a question & passage from "The Bacchae". **The rubric ([|Bacchae essay rubric]) used to assess this essay, as well as the one due on Friday, is similar to the rubric from the in-class essay about "First Sorrow" (by Kafka), but with different weighting: a weight of 1 for organization (standard 2) / weight of 1 for conventions (3) / weight of 3 for reading process (5) - total weight of 35.**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Friday, 10 September: submit revised essay from in-class prompt writing - choose from the 4 topics used for in-class writing during this unit. Write an organized 5- (or more) paragraph essay in response to the prompt, including introduction / thesis statement / detailed response / conclusion and at least two external sources to support your response. (Note: the topics from the 23rd and 25th of August apply themselves better to this assignment than those from the 27th and September 2nd. Nevertheless, you may choose whichever you find the most interesting. It is assumed that your response will be framed primarily within the context of "The Bacchae," but that you will also consider larger implications, at least in your conclusion. **A brief summary of how you might frame your topic is included below.**)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Prompt topics for consideration** (potential choices for your essay due 10 September - the original topics are posted on the assignment calendar on the dates when each was assigned for in-class writing): <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">* topics 1, 2, and 4 were based on passages from the play or //The Sec//ret History by Donna Tartt. For these topics, you should be __analyzing the passages explicitly__ as the starting point for your essays. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. (from 23 Aug) Explore the dichotomy of Dionysus and its larger implications in the play and the world <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. (from 25 Aug) Explore the rapturous ecstasy of the maenads, and its subsequent reversal into frenzied massacre <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. (from 27 Aug) Explore Euripides' conclusion - who was punished, how, and why? <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. (from 2 Sep) Explore the appeal of the abandonment of the self in the context of "The Bacchae," the passage, and in general

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Note that you are welcome to further refine these topics - i.e., identify a framework that interests you, relating it in a clear way to the passage and/or the topic identified in the prompt [the dichotomy for topic 1 / the rapture of worship for topic 2 / the conclusion for topic 3 / the appeal of bacchanal frenzy for topic 4]. For example, a student asked if she could compare and contrast Dionysian frenzy (in the context of "The Bacchae") with the Nirvana state from Indian religions** (this is her topic - please develop your own original framework if you choose to use one). **However, you are not required to do this; you are welcome to keep to the confines of "The Bacchae" and the prompt question, involving 2 external sources specifically related to the play.**

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Week of 23 - 27 August** __ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">- due 27 August: after you've finished the play, read the introduction section (paragraphs 1 - 4) of this essay on [|Dionysian religion], then post a comment responding to this question: Which side of Dionysus dominates the outcome of this play, and what significance do you think that has? **//(To post your comments, click on 'DISCUSSION' at the top of this page. Within the discussion, click on my topic and post your comments as a response to it.)//** Your response will be scored based on Standard 5 (Reading process)


 * Presentation topics from 6 September:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//1. Ignacio - Thebes and its role in Greek tragedy / history// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//2. Dani, Anton & Terry / Reynel & Marisa - Animals as symbols in Greek mythology// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//3.// //Ernesto & Mandi -// //Myths of Dionysus// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//4. Najla / Daniela, Valeria & Joanna - Women in Euripides// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//5. Barbara & Mo / Jacob, Pedro & Nick - Transformations// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//6. Amanda & Mavi / Evelyn & Aastha - Wine & madness in Greek drama// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//7. Adrian - Euripides as the black sheep of Greek tragedy// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//8. Maria & Brenna - misogyny in ancient Greece// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//9. Ernie & Ricardo - dichotomy, male vs. female etc.// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//10.// ****//Gaby, Heleny & Megan -//****<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> //Cadmus' house; other myths regarding Cadmus & Thebes// **