2018 Summer Assignment 

 The Assignment
Information about the The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Supplementary site for allusions, translations, and other language
​How to Read Literature Like a Professor 

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PART 1
​Literature in Translation

Haruki Murakami: Selected Short Stories

Author's Website
​Alternative Assignments for Quizzes
Murakami Quotes and Passages
​LitChart
​Symbolism Project

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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

​The Journal
An Introduction
Online Text
Vocabulary with Links
A Poll
Keyvious' Brilliant Fugue Theory

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Sophocles: Antigone

Background Article
Creon's Speech Translations
Antigone's Response Translations
Tiresias' Speech Translations

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The Written Assignment (World Lit Paper)

​The Introductory Ppt
The Rubric
Essay 9
Essay 10
Essay 11
​Essay 12
Student Essay
​Student Essay
​Outline
Teacher Commentary Sheet for Draft 1

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PART 4
​Options

Yusef Komunyakaa: Selected Poems

Author Information

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Isabel Allende: The House of Spirits

Author Website

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me

Author Website

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The I.O.P.

The Rubric
Information and Forms

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PART 2
Detailed Study

MacBeth

The Journals
​A PowerPoint
Guiding Questions
Is this a dagger?
​Sound and Silence​

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Sylvia Plath: Selected Poems

Author Information

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Nadine Gordimer: Jump and Other Stories

About the Author

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The I.O.C. 

Information
Rubric

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PART 3
GENRE STUDY

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five

An introduction to the Text
Post-Modern Project
Annotation Rubric
Thematic Essay

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F. Scott Fitzgerald:The Great Gatsby

Film Terms
Film as Literature Project
Chapter Journal Example
Film Analysis Graphic Organizer
A link to the 1974 version

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Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author Information

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Ngozie Chimamanda Adichie: Americanah

Author Information
The Danger of a Single Story
We Should All Be Feminists

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IB Exams: Paper 1 & Paper 2

Paper 1 Rubric
Paper 2 Rubric

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Poetry Responses

Poetry Response Assignment
Poetry Response Student Example 1
Poetry Response Student Example 2

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Literature Handouts

 Tone
Diction Ppt
IB Diction via Poetry and Ads
Diction and Malcolm X: An Analysis
In-Class Essay: Diction in "The Plot"
Syntax Ppt
Syntax Guided Notes
Syntactical Analysis of Rhetoric: JFK
In-Class Essay: Syntactical Analysis of Fiction
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: Text
Literary Terms
Poetry Terms
Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison
Poetry for Formalist Analysis
Give Me Liberty
​We Should All Be Feminists
APCLOSE READING

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Other Rubrics

Argument Rubric
Information/Expository Rubric
Narrative Rubric
Socratic Seminar Rubric
Fishbowl Rubric
​Spider Rubric
Blog Rubric
Dialectical Journal Directions
Reflective Writing Rubric

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Semi-Retired Texts

Madame Bovary

Hill, Janet. Paige Reads Madame Bovary.

Vocabulary
Socratic Topics
Translation Comparison Essay
Literary Analysis Essay
A Precis
The Fakery: An example Precis/Paraphrase Project
Literary Analysis Outline Format
Flaubert Style

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Persepolis

Graphic Novel Terminology
Analysis Graphic for Persepolis
Vocabulary 1
Persepolis Project
Annotation Rubric and Directions
​Persepolis: Contextual Analysis

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1984

The Text
Newspeak Dictionary
Recreating Ogilvy
"A State of Mind" Documentary (You must continue and watch all parts)

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A Distant Neighborhood

A Link
Graphic Novel Terminology
More Graphic Novel Terminology
Another Link
V1 Quiz
Comparison to Bovary

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Atonement

Atonement Text
Opening Essay
Quotes for Thematic Corners
Part 1 Quiz
Film Terms

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Extended Essay Documents

Essay Plan form
Annotated Bibliography Example
Extended Essay Guide
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Odds and Ends

Warm-Ups for Lit
The Fourth State of Matter
Consider the Lobster
MLA PowerPoint

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IB Language A: Language and Literature
IB Rubrics and Forms  

Paper 1: Comparative Textual Analysis
Paper 2:Part 3 Analysis
Written Task 1 Rubric
Written Task 2 Rubric
Further Oral Activity Rubric
Further Oral Activity Proposal Form
Part 3: Topics for Essays

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