English II: World Literature – Course Syllabus



International Baccalaureate World Literature I – Course Syllabus

Morgan Park High School Instructor: Tim Gronholm

1744 W. Pryor Ave. B.A.S. in English, University of Illinois, 1999

Chicago, IL 60643 B.A.S. in English Education and Teaching Certificate Type 09, Trinity Christian College, 2007

International Baccalaureate English A1 Training – 2009

International Baccalaureate C.A.S. Training – 2009

Contact: Email is best – tjgronholm@cps.edu

Phone - 773-535-2550

Dear Students and Parent(s)/Guardian(s),

Welcome to the International Baccalaureate community! This course will be engaging, daunting, rewarding, interesting, and, at times, fun. This is the first English component of the Diploma Programme. Students will work on their literary analysis skills. These will include working towards the literary analysis essay, the Individual Oral Presentation, the PSAE (ACT + WorkKeys), and honing their voice via the writing process (Interactive Orals, Reflective Statements, and Supervised Writing). Please check my link on the Morgan Park website for additional information (). I look forward to a wonderful year!

TEXT:

English A1 Course Companion

Students will be provided with copies of the English A1 Companion; if, however, this text is lost, the student must buy a new one. Selected novels will also be required. Students will be responsible for obtaining these novels on their own. They may be purchased in advance or borrowed from a library. The novels for the two year course are as follows:

Junior Year – Semester One

• So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• The Wind-uo Bird Chronicle by Haruki Marukami

Junior Year – Semester Two

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Senior Year – Semester One

• Climate of Fear by Wole Soyinka

• King Lear by William Shakespeare

• Poetry of Sylvia Plath (will be provided)

Senior Year – Semester Two

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• Dubliners by James Joyce

• Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

DESCRIPTION:

IB World Literature (junior course) is the first Language A1 literature course of the IB comprehensive two-year curriculum. It is a rigorous, pre-university course designed to enable students to explore and appreciate the conceptions, interpretations and experiences of the world through literature. Students will continue to develop as careful and critical readers of prose written in a variety of disciplines and rhetorical contexts. They will apply oral and written skills learned in the first course as they write for a variety of purposes, audiences, subjects, and expectations. During this course of study, students will also become skilled researchers who will evaluate, use and cite sources according to the guidelines of Modern Language Association (MLA). Students will spend the majority of their time reading, analyzing texts, and writing essays. (portions taken from IB Diploma Subject Guide)

Academic Goals/Objectives

Students will be able to:

▪ Develop an understanding of the significance of and complete a close read and analysis of texts

▪ Develop an understanding of the significance of the context in which a work is written

▪ Identify the purpose of an author’s intention, style, and word choice when writing a piece of literature

▪ Identify literary concepts and their use in order to support the author’s intention, topic, and theme

▪ Enhance coherency/logical order through emphasis placed on transitions, sentence structure, repetition, etc.

▪ Identify and use rhetorical strategies and appeals within writing

▪ Identify the different structures and aspects of various genres (i.e. drama, poetry, commentary, novel)

▪ Write for a variety of purposes and audiences

▪ Enhance vocabulary through a wide-range of vocabulary from selected readings

▪ Develop an awareness of the writing process by engaging in several stages/drafts with opportunities for revision through teacher-student conferences and peer editing exercises

▪ Present effective written and oral commentary

▪ Identify the comparisons of voice, themes, style, plot, characterization, etc. within two or more works

▪ Appropriately analyze, use and cite sources within writing (e.g. in-text citation and reference documentation)

▪ Complete IB major assessments (see detail of assignments)

College Readiness Skills

• COP 20-24 Use apostrophes to indicate simple possessive nouns

• SSF 20-23 Recognize and correct marked disturbances of sentence flow and structure (e.g. participial phrase fragments, missing or incorrect relative pronouns, dangling or misplaced modifiers)

• SSF 24-27 Maintain consistent verb tense and pronoun person on the basis of the preceding clause or sentence

• COP 20-23 Delete unnecessary commas when an incorrect reading of the sentence suggests a pause that should be punctuated (e.g., between verb and direct object clause)

• COP 24-27 Use punctuation to set off complex parenthetical phrases

• COP 24-27 Recognize inappropriate uses of colons and semicolons

• TOD 20-23 Identify the central idea or main topic of a straightforward piece of writing

• COU 20-23 Ensure that a verb agrees with its subject when there is some text

Grading

Students should expect to work hard. This course mandates that students read all of the novels.

A: 90-100% Classwork: 30%

B: 80-89% Quizzes: 15%

C: 70-79% Tests: 15%

D: 60-69% Mid-Term/Semester Finals: 15%

F: 0-59% IB Assessments/Projects: 15%

Homework: 10%

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

• Two notebooks, one folder dedicated to IB World Lit work, pens, colored pencils, and perforated, loose leaf paper

GENERAL CLASSROOM RULES AND BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS:

• Come to class each day, on time and prepared.

• Complete homework every night it is assigned.

• All assignments, both classwork and homework, will be posted on the Morgan Park website.

• Bring the required materials to class daily.

• No passes to the washroom or elsewhere unless it is an extreme emergency.

• No food or drinks in the classroom, except water.

• No electronics (cell phone, headphones, etc.) may be used in class at anytime. They will be taken and the student must retrieve them from the Dean’s office. This is school policy. No exceptions!

• Take the initiative: make-up all assignments/assessments, or get any notes due to an excused absence verified by the attendance office. In the event of an expected absence (personal or school function), the student is responsible for getting any assignments in advance.

• You will not be able to make up assignments or quizzes missed due to being tardy to class. Be on time!

No make up work will be given for unexcused absences/cutting.

• Complete and submit work on time. NO LATE HOMEWORK OR CLASSWORK will be accepted. In the case of major assessments, one letter grade will be deducted for each day the work is late.

• Be responsible for the integrity of all your work. Any work that is copied or contains plagiarized material is entirely unacceptable and will earn no credit.

• Treat others with kindness and respect and expect others to treat you accordingly.

Yearly Overview: In addition to the following schedule, students will be assessed every 5 weeks with a ACT-style, multiple choice exam.

|Quarter One: Weeks 1-6: Literary Analysis, Comma Usage and So Long a Letter|Quarter Three: Weeks 21-25: ACT Skills, Extremely Loud and Incredibly |

| |Close, Presentation Skills |

|Quarter One: Weeks 7-10: Literary Analysis, Writing Process Skills, |Quarter Three: Weeks 26-30: ACT Skills, The Bluest Eye, Foer/Morrison |

|Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Fall Intersession |Pastiche |

|Quarter Two: Weeks 11-20: Literary Analysis, Supervised Writing, the |Quarter Four: Weeks 31-40: ACT Skills, Spring Intersession, Zeitoun, |

|Literary Analysis Essay, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Winter |Individual Oral Presentations |

|Intersession | |

Dear Parents,

I look forward to working with your child, and I hope to meet you at our Parent Night or Report Card Pick-Up. If you wish to contact me, please email me at tjgronholm@cps.edu .

You can view daily assignments by going to my link on the Morgan Park web site at . Please keep up to date with your child’s grade and attendance by logging on to the IMPACT parent portal .

If your child experiences any difficulty in the class, the following steps may be initiated by the parent, the student or the teacher: 1) Schedule a conference to discuss the problem and arrive at solutions. 2) Arrange for the student to meet with the teacher after school for additional help. 3) Enroll the student in after-school tutoring if and when it becomes available at the school. Finally, grade recovery plans will be provided for students with Ds or Fs at the first and third quarters only. Recovery plans will allow students to make up no more than 10% of the total semester grade. Please note that recovery plans do NOT guarantee passing the course. For example, if a student earns 13% and perfectly completes a recovery plan, his/her final average is 23%. Parents are responsible for reviewing, signing, and returning recovery contracts promptly. Please stay in contact—our partnership is important to your child’s success.

Sincerely,

Tim Gronholm

Please sign and return this confirmation of having received the IB World Literature I Course Syllabus.

I have read the IB World Literature I Course Syllabus and am aware of the objectives, assessments, grading and expectations for the course. (08/2011)

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