Due Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Write ONE thank you letter to Michael and Spoken Interludes Next. "Dear Spoken Interludes Next...."
Please submit here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ujpeXAgcUxOnBXT3bYQigf57rk5kcYKz?usp=sharing
Due Thursday, April 15, 2021
1. Final Processed Story
Due Wednesday, March 24, 2021
1. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S3FytlAr1Q
2. Read: https://poets.org/poet/robert-frost
3. Read and annotate the Lahiri story: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RmzMYLbnG3ZdFmNzmrRuX8NWbijj-m8u/view?usp=sharing
4. Read and annotate the Frost poem: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WyKM9qf7inTUfTVJRPC3JkPQIM5Ot-fy/view?usp=sharing
5. Consider a specific problem in your story that you would like help with. Specific section/specific question.
6. Continuing writing and editing your story
Due Thursday, March 18, 2021
1. Check out the interview with Yu Hua: https://www.nytimes.com/video/books/1194840083927/an-interview-with-yu-hua.html
2. Read the brief bio and watch the interview with Haruki Murakami: https://sites.udel.edu/movingfictions/the-books/kafka-on-the-shore/about-the-author/
3. Read and annotate Hua story: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GZV4xxMG15-TUJ3_VFqZYI7kelJkFSix/view?usp=sharing
4. Read and annotate Murakami story: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fA5nMNL6ApB1uqGLKlkc7MQ-vfNZY3uM/view?usp=sharing
Due Monday, March 15, 2021
1. Submit the link to your Learner Portfolio with a clear marked folder for Oedipus.
Due Thursday, March 11, 2021
1. Read and annotate Walker essay
2. Read and annotate Berlin story
3. Write a 3rd page of your story
Due Thursday, March 4, 2021
1. Check out this interview with Hamid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxvglPTLwiw
2. Read and annotate Hamid story
3. Write 2 pages of your story
Due Thursday, February 26, 2021
1. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxt_MZKMdes
2. Read https://pencol.edu/raymond-carver-festival/raymond-carver-biography
3. Annotate Carver story
4. Annotate Gay story
5. Revise HLE for final submission
Due Thursday, February 18, 2021
1. Annotate Lee story (on schoology)
2. Annotate Komunyakaa poem (on schoology)
3. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9EwymJpsSM
4. Submit: Revise HLE according to my comments. MAKE SURE YOU REVISE BASED ON ALL OF MY COMMENTARY.
I will review your revisions and either clear your essay for submission or give you feedback for further revision. DO NOT DELETE ANY OF MY COMMENTS. Submit by providing a link to a google doc that I have access to edit in schoology.
Due Thursday, February 11, 2021
1. View the following two texts and take notes: Read brief bio: https://www.juliaalvarez.com/about
Watch short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwdGRx9-Qgw
2. Annotate Alvarez text (assignment on schoology)
3. Annotate Rich text (assignment on schoology)
4. Prepare questions and ideas for discussion--be sure you have some ideas to share.
5. Submit final revisions to HLE draft for final read from me.
Due Tuesday, February 9, 2021 by end of day (to make up seminar points)
1. How does Oedipus's contradiction between championing and then tearing down Teiresias create tragedy in this play?
2. Based on this text and Saramago's, how do we see a connection between physical blindness and truly SEEING?
Due Monday, February 8, 2021
If you need to make up seminar points, you can submit the following:
1. Review notes on the the chorus. What emotions is the chorus attempting to get the audience to experience? Make sure to cite multiple pieces of evidence to prove your ideas.
2. What moral perspective does the chorus offer the audience? How do you know?
Due Tuesday, January 19, 2021
1. Prep your revised IOC--be ready to deliver it orally to your group.
Due Tuesday, January 12, 2021 (due before class)
1. Get the following two video release forms signed. You can print and take a picture to submit or you can have parent sign digitally.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cl3nnnTxdPuVy7T7gi4Psw6Z-ANRhirMUFEHqH3CUck/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16gwmVKbXeYWhOZ_0kjpdLv1KrfH0DptC4nnNtgVRObM/edit?usp=sharing
2. Finish writing draft of HLE (with word count and works cited page)--submit in google drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GF8ocdM2zkxcwY2xDG94unwFghvwqpez?usp=sharing
3. Prep IOC and do rough draft recording--submit in google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d3dF16hUUNKvLUefRA7ThgBKwAcBa8qs?usp=sharing
4. Submit Learner Porfolio--make sure you have a folder for Blindness!
Due Thursday, December 17, 2020
Final: Share your ACTION for (In)action Project
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Develop a line of inquiry for HLE and IOC so that you are ready to get started on the writing
Due Thursday, December 3, 2020
1. Read to page 241
2. 5 HL Questions
Due Monday, November 30, 2020
Think about what you want to do for the HLE and IOC.
Due Thursday, November 19, 2020
1. Read to page 199
2. 5 HL Questions
Due Thursday, November 12, 2020
1. Read to page 162
2. 5 HL Questions
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
No School
Monday, November 9, 2020
Prep your articles to lead the class in discussion. You will be leading the class through your texts and through the larger ideas about your topic.
Due Thursday, November 5, 2020
1. Read to page 122
2. 5 HL Questions
Due Thursday, October 29, 2020
1. Read to page 89
2. 5 HL Questions
Due Thursday, October 22, 2020
1. Read to page 48 of Blindness (in the google drive)
2. 5 HL Questions
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Do some thinking about an issue you might like to work on
Due Monday, October 19, 2020
1. Learner Portfolio--put link in schoology assignment. Make sure that this unit is organized and added into previous drive so that last semester's docs are still in there too. Also, make sure you have notes (and I can find them) on ALL of the articles in the Global Censorship Folder.
2. Presentation Reflection: This reflection has 2 parts: first, write a reflection about your censorship presentation that explains why you think you got your score based on the rubric. second, evaluate what common modes and impacts of censorship exist across the globe based on the presentations you listened to during class.
Due Thursday, October 15, 2020
1. Read NTE to the end of the book
2. Write 5 HL Questions. Make sure you put questions and notes in your Learner Portfolio
Due Tuesday, October 13, 2020
1. Censorship Presentations
2. Read and take notes on Article 3 for Global Censorship. Put in your Learner Portfolio.
Due Thursday, October 8, 2020
1. Read NTE to the end of chapter 17
2. Write 5 HL Questions. Make sure you put questions and notes in your Learner Portfolio
Due Tuesday, October 6, 2020
1. Read and take notes on Article 2 for Global Censorship. Put in your Learner Portfolio.
Due Monday, October 5, 2020
1. Watch https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-53848584 about N. Korean propaganda
2. Read https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901017310/north-korea-makes-a-push-to-reach-foreign-audiences-on-youtube-and-twitter
3. Take notes and put them in your Learner Portfolio
Due Thursday, October 1, 2020
1. Read NTE to the end of chapter 12
2. Write 5 HL Questions--Make sure you put questions and notes in your Learner Portfolio
Due Tuesday, September 29, 2020 before class
1. Final HLE from last semester
Due Thursday, September 24, 2020 before class
1. Read NTE to the end of chapter 8
2. Submit 10 HL Questions on schoology before class starts
3. Write a reflection on your IOC, especially taking into consideration my feedback. This can include changes you will make for next time and what challenges you faced, etc. 1 page minimum. Submit on schoology
Due Tuesday, September 22, 2020
1. Works Cited Page for Censorship Project
2. Submit one article/excerpt PER GROUP into the "Global Censorship Articles" folder
Due Tuesday, September 15, 2020 (put in "Context for NTE" folder in google drive)
1. Context research for Nothing to Envy as assigned. Only submit ONE document per group before class.
Homework for September 8-September 24
1. Work on Censorship Project
2. Read NTE
Due before class on Wednesday, September 2, 2020
1. Consider the "Guiding Conceptual Questions" for Readers, Writers, and Texts in your pink Course Guide (page 9). Write a reflection in which you update your answers to each of the questions after thinking about what we have learned last year.
Due before class on Monday, August 31, 2020
1. Put HLE in drive folder
Due before class on Tuesday, August 25, 2020
1. Put IOC recording and materials in drive folder
Due Thursday, August 20, 2020 I will explain how to submit this during our first meeting!
1. Write HLE
2. Complete IOC Outline (10 point outline for IB, NOT the full planning outline) and Excerpts from texts (cited)
3. Complete one recorded rough draft of IOC: Try doing this using Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/
4. (Optional) Preread Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Blindness by Jose Saramago
Due July, 2020 (weekends or evenings?)
1. Attend a scheduled meeting with Ms. DePaolo to review your two plans
Due Friday, June 26, 2020
1. Submit your HLE plan with Question, Text Selections, and Outline with Topic Sentences
2. Submit your IOC Docs and Outline