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=IB A-1 English Standard Level =  27 May 2009 Hi kids,         **Year One**
 * Keep working on your draft for your World Lit Comparative Paper. Check the Comparative Paper page for criteria, guidelines, and schedule. You can select time slots for your conferences. Revised drafts are due **Wednesday, June 10th**.
 * Over the summer, you may further revise your WL draft and submit an updated version in August. Therefore, you should hold on to all three novels for reference. You will have access to the class' Wikispace as well.
 * Also, don't forget to add your suggestions to the Good Books  chart.
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Semester One**:
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">School's Choice ---> Oral Presentation
 * //<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Heat and Dust //<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
 * //<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Fences //<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> by August Wilson
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Selected classic and contemporary poetry by
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">William Wordsworth
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Emily Dickinson
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Philip Larkin
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sharon Olds


 * <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Semester Two**:
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">World Literature ---> Comparative Paper

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Perfume: The Story of a Murderer// by Patrick Suskind <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Siddhartha <span style="font-size: 144%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">by Hermann Hesse <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea// by Yukio Mishima

Year Two <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255,122,0); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(44,20,235); font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">An Explanation of IB Assessments A Glossary of Literary Terms <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255,122,0); font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 130%; color: rgb(255,94,0); font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Semester One: Detailed Study ---> Oral Commentary
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Semester Two: Genre Study ---> Exams
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Paper One: Written Commentary on passage or poem
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Paper Two: Essay analyzing elements of studied texts

Our List of Good Books: //feel free to add to the list throughout the yea//r It is beneficial to read a variety of works on your own to broaden your literary foundation.

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<span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(20,61,204); font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(177,11,11); font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Any other suggestions?
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(20,61,204); font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Online text of several hundred poems, plays, and novels at [|www.online-literature.com]
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(20,61,204); font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Purdue University Online Writing Lab offers resources on grammar, structure, and style at [|http://owl.english.purdue.edu]
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Connecticut community college website with gazillions of online quizzes and fairly clear, concise explanatory advice, from parts of speech up through essays at [|http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/]
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Grammar guy-type Jack Lynch, who obviously has a great deal of interest and spare time to put scads of stuff on grammar together, has a “search engine” of sorts that some find helpful at [|http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/]
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jefferson County Schools: connections to lots of study sites, including many interactive at [|http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html]
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(17,38,182); font-family: Georgia,serif;">A site for finding other sites at [|http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammar-rules/english-grammar-online-exercises.html]

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