CLASSEN SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES



CLASSEN SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES

SYLLABUS FOR IB ENGLISH II, 2010-2011

Congratulations! You have arrived at the final part of the journey begun when you came to Classen. The end is within your reach. Please share this information with your parents. As our fourteenth IB Diploma class, you have quite a legacy to uphold. This syllabus outlines the process and procedure for our course of study, detailing the curriculum that will you prepare you to sit the IB English A1 exams in May 2011, as well as either of the AP English exams. I encourage all of you to contact any school you are considering to see how many hours they award for what score on which IB or AP exam. Generally speaking, for AP scores of 3 out of 5, you earn one semester of English--ex: a 3 or 4 on AP Lang or AP Lit = 3 hours college freshman English; a 5, usually 6 hours or 2 semesters. The schools that recognize IB probably give credit only for HL exams. At OU for example, a 4 out of 7 in IB English earns you 2 semesters or 6 hours. IB is currently working with universities to award some credit for SL exams.

HOUSEKEEPING: (A) ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY. If you have to miss a class for illness or emergency, you MUST come in for tutoring BEFORE you can make up or turn in ANY work. You should schedule your tutoring within five (5) school days of the absence. PLEASE DO NOT SCHEDULE DENTAL OR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS DURING THIS CLASS. What cannot be made up is class discussion, where a great deal of the learning about a work takes place.

(B) LATE WORK POLICY. (1) You will lose points on EVERY assignment that is late. Exceptions: absence for certified illness—then you have 5 school days to make up all the work. Don’t rely on your classmates to get you the correct information. SPECIFICS: Journals, etc., over major author/work—assigned by chapter of section—must be turned in while we are on that chapter or section. (2) After the end of EACH grading period, I will accept that quarter’s work for ONE WEEK ONLY at ½ credit. After that week, no work for that quarter will be accepted.

(C) ON-TIME POINTS. On major work essays, every student who turns in work on time will earn 25 points in the Composition category. After the due date, these points will not be awarded. This is a reward for those who do work on time, a penalty for those who do not. The quality grade on the work will not be affected.

HOMEWORK: Mostly reading; assigned to practice what we have done in class or to set groundwork for what we will do the following class period. Most of the reading--99%--must be done out of class. Also, the major end-of-unit/work essays will be prepared out of class. We will have pop quizzes, warm-ups, journal topics, etc., at the beginning of most class periods. These can only be made up during tutoring.

GRADING: Every assignment is graded on the point system, with each given a designated number of points possible. Each category is a percentage of your total grade for the quarter. EX: Classwork = 15%; Composition = 30%; Current Events (outside reports, cultural literacy assignments, rhetorical practices) = 15%; Final Essays = 40%, weighted Zeroes will kill you. All essays will be graded using IB descriptors of 20-25 points. The number of assignments varies from quarter to quarter. Final essay grades are weighted. I grade papers every day and enter them on SmartWeb. The District’s grading scale:

A = 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = 0-59

OSAA Eligibility Grade and Semester Grade = Cumulative from beginning of term (semester)

ALL ESSAYS, except timed ones in class, must be TYPED with no errors. Not typed = no grade.

Submit ALL ESSAYS in both hard and electronic copies. It is your responsibility to take the electronic copy to Ms Allen in the Media Center and run it through TurnItIn, to check for referencing.

ALL OUT-OF-CLASS ESSAYS MUST BE TYPED—Double-Spaced, No errors. OTHER IN-CLASS WRITINGS---BLUE or BLACK INK, 1 side of page, do not skip lines, no ink disasters, NO DOOBERS!. A notebook or folder of all handouts and essays is required for study and review. EX: For each work, you must write a good essay. World Lit essays #1 and #2 are completed during first semester. One-half the Internal assessment is your oral presentations over either The Crucible or The Kite Runner, the one with the higher grade. Your Individual Oral Commentary, the other ½ of your Internal Assessment, will be over poems by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, or selections from Hamlet. I strongly suggest that, if at all possible, you buy your own copies of the works we read. If you take notes in the book as we discuss, you will have your own study guide/review manual.

Ms Hulsey’s tutoring schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays = 2:30-3:30, during lunch.

Office Hours: 1st period A and B Days

IMPORTANT DATES:

Tues., Aug. 31, Open House Mon., Jan 3, Record Day 1st week in May, IB and AP Testing Begins

Sept. 20, Progress Report Week Tues, Jan 4, 3rd Quarter Begins Tues, May 24, End 2nd Semester

Fri., Sept. 24, Parent Conference Mon., Jan 17, MLK Day Wed., May 25, Record Day

Fri., Oct. 15, End 1st Quarter Mon, Jan 31, Progress Report Week May 26, 27, 31, Snow Days

Oct. 21- 27, FALL BREAK Fri., Feb. 4, Parent Conference

Nov. 15, Progress Report Week Mon., Feb 21, Professional Dev.

Nov. 24-28, THANKSGIVING BREAK Wed., Feb 23, 8th Grade Writing Text IB MAILING DEADLINES:

Fri, Dec. 17, End of 1st Semester Fri., Mar 11, End 3rd Quarter Both World Lit Essays, Feb. 15, 2011

Dec. 20-Jan. 4, WINTER BREAK March 14-20, SPRING BREAK Extended Essays, Feb. 15, 2011

April 11-29, State EOI , CRT Testing Internal Assmts, April , 2011

IB and AP exams begin the first week in May and continue for 3 weeks

THE IB ENGLISH A1 HL CURRICULUM:

PART ONE: WORLD LITERATURE: World Literature Essays #1 and #2 [20% of IB English A1 grade]

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis - 12

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold - 12

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - 12

PART TWO: DETAILED STUDY: Internal Assessment over Frost/ Dickinson/Oliver or Hamlet [15% of IB English A1 grade]

William Shakespeare, Hamlet – 11

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice – 11

Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, Selected Poems – 11, 12*

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart – 11

PART THREE: GENRE STUDY (Non-Fiction Unit) IB Paper #2, May [25% of IB English A1 grade]

Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” “Where I Lived and What I Lived For,” from Walden -12

Nadine Gordimer, “Our Century,” “Writing and Being” {Noble Lecture], “Berlin/Johannesburg” - 12

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” = 12

Annie Dillard, “Teaching a Stone to Talk,” “An Expedition to the Pole,” “Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos” - 12

PART FOUR: SCHOOL’S FREE CHOICE: World Lit Essay #2 ; Oral Presentation [15% of IB English A1 grade]

Arthur Miller, The Crucible -- 11 (, Oral Presentation)

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man - 12 (Paper # 1 practice)

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner - 11 ( Oral Presentation)

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 12 ( WL #2)

IB ENGLISH II READING SCHEDULE, 2008-2009

DATES WORKS ASSESSMENT

Aug.23-Sept 10 Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Individual World Lit #1 Aspect Essay

“A Hunger Artist” Dailies, Journals

Summer reading/questions/on-line discussion

Kafka, “A Hunger Artist,” Steinbeck, “The Harness,” Moss, “The Death of the Hunger Artist”

Former German students’ skits on Kafka, “Eine alltägliche Verwirrung”

Films—bio of Kafka, Blue Metamorphosis, Snow in August (Golem scenes)

Sept 10, 13 September 11 Commemorative Mini-Unit

Sept 14-17 Mini-Poetry Intro Unit – Hayden, Roethke IB Style Analysis Essay Intro, Paper #1

Sept 20-Oct 8 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold Individual World Lit #1 Aspect Essay

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Journals, W & B

“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”

Spanish students present skits on “La viuda de Monteil,” GGM

Latin American readings from World Lit book, Spanish and English readings of poetry

Films—bio and Nobel interview with GGM, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,

Chimayo, Isabel Allende filmed interview

Filmed talk by author of new biography Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin

Music—Ravel’s Bolero

Oct. 11-20 Essay Unit, Part 1 – THE ELEMENTS OF THE ESSAY—DiYanni and Perrine Texts Paper #2

Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”

“Where I Lived and What I Lived For,” from Walden

Nadine Gordimer, “Our Century,” “Writing and Being,” “Berlin-Johannesburg” Paper #2

Films—Thoreau; Gordimer interviews, Anti-Apartheid short film, Long Night’s Journey Into Day

German sister students and teacher, presentations on Berlin

FALL BREAK ASSIGNMENT READ Solzhenitsyn

Oct 25-Nov. 9 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich World Lit Essay #1

“The One Great Heart,” Nobel Acceptance Speech

Films—Bio/interview, Gulag, Khrushchev, Great Souls on TBN, selections from

Freedom Writers Diary

Selections from Elie Wiesel, Night

Oprah and Elie Wiesel, visit to Auschwitz

Music—Mozart Requiem from bombed-out shell of University Library, Sarajevo

THANKSGIVING BREAK ASSIGNMENT READ/WRITE “Araby” Assignment

Nov. 10-Dec 15 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man W Lit Essay #2

Films--Portrait, bio, scenes from What Dreams May Come, The Dead, Angela’s Ashes

Interviews with Frank McCourt, Joseph Campbell on Joyce

The Icarus Myths, poems, labyrinths, The Villanelle

WINTER BREAK ASSIGNMENT READ Selected Poems and essays about poetry, practice poetry analysis essay

Jan/Feb Poetry Unit, Part 2

William Stafford, “Traveling Through the Dark,” Rod McKuen, “Thoughts on Capital Poetry Analysis Essay

Punishment,” Richard Wilbur, “The Death of a Toad” Paper #1 John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” with film Wit

Poetry Unit, Part 3

Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson IB Individual Oral Commentary, taped

Selected Poems and Essays about poetry, by Frost and others Paper #1

Films—Voices and Visions, American Poetry Series, bio films

Literary terms and analytic techniques unique to poetry

Feb 22-Mar-11 Tape Individual Oral Commentaries, after school, weekends

Feb 29-Mar 4 Essay Unit Part 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” Paper #1 analysis of prose passage

Transcendentalism Paper #2

Film—Emerson and Transcendentalism Practice Commentary

Mar. 7-Ap 1 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Analysis essay, Paper #1

Essays by and about Ellison

Films, American Masters, King of the Bingo Game, Jazz, Harlem

SPRING BREAK ASSIGNMENT READ about Annie Dillard

Ap. 4-15 Essay Unit Part 3 Paper #2

Annie Dillard, “Teaching a Stone to Talk,” “Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos,”

“Expedition to the Pole”

Ap 18-29 Review/Practice for Paper #1, Paper #2

1st week in May IB Paper #1 = style analysis over poem or prose selection

IB Paper #2 = question over Part 3 Essays (answer question using 2/4 essayists, Part 3)

IB GRADE IN ENGLISH: 20% = 2 World Lit Essays

30% = Internal Assessment [Ind. Oral Commentary + Oral Presentation (see b above)]

50% = Paper 1 and Paper 2

FYI -- Senior Year

WORLD LIT ESSAYS:

#1 = trace an aspect through 2 of the 3 WL selections (Kafka, Garcia Marquez, Solzhenitsyn), 1000-1500 words

MLA Citation and Works Cited Page

#2 = more creative essay. Options: analytic or other essay over 3rd WL selection, Achebe or Joyce (preferred)

Formal Essay = 1000-1500 words, same as above

Creative Writing Assignment = Statement of Intent plus document

Must cite sources in text to show connections. .

Other May Exams:

AP Lang/Comp =

5 reading selections, 50-60 questions;

3 Essays (40 minutes each)

1 analytic essay/prose (identify and defend writer’s argument);

1 synthesis essay,

1 arg essay

AP Lit/Comp – 3 prose reading selections and 1-2 poems, 40-60 questions;

3 essays (40 minutes each)

1 style analysis of prose passage, usually fiction;

1 style analysis of poem;

1 open-ended question (idea or quote, you explore the topic using a major work studied in jr/sr years)

IB 2-YEAR ASSESSMENT =

EXTERNAL = 2 WORLD LIT ESSAYS = 20%

PAPER 1 = 25% (2 hours)

PAPER 2 = 25% (2 hours)

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT = 2 Orals, each 15% (Individual Oral Presentation and Individual Oral Commentary)

EXTERNAL = we send the papers somewhere in the world to be graded

INTERNAL = I grade the assessments, then send in sample recordings to be re-graded

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