OPEN HOUSE WELCOME PARENTS! RED HOOK HIGH SCHOOL MRS. DECKER IB LANGUAGE A: LITERATURE HL SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Welcome Parents! Thank you for coming to Open House this evening! Goals for tonight: To help you understand the work your child will be doing throughout the school year To explain my expectations of your child To share information about how you can support your child’s learning

Curriculum Goals THE AIMS OF THIS IB LITERATURE COURSE ARE TO: introduce students to a range of texts from different periods, styles and genres develop in students the ability to engage in close, detailed analysis of individual texts and make relevant connections develop the students’ powers of expression, both in oral and written communication encourage students to recognize the importance of the contexts in which texts are written and received encourage, through the study of texts, an appreciation of the different perspectives of people from other cultures, and how these perspectives construct meaning encourage students to appreciate the formal, stylistic and aesthetic qualities of texts promote in students an enjoyment of, and lifelong interest in, language and literature. develop in students an understanding of the techniques involved in literary criticism develop the students’ ability to form independent literary judgments and to support those ideas.

TEXTS WE STUDY JUNIOR YEAR Part Four: School’s Free Choice One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Hamlet by William Shakespeare Assessment: Oral Presentation 15% (Internal) Presentation on a topic based on a Part 4 work, chosen by student. (10-15 minutes) Part Two: Detailed Study Selected poetry by Sylvia Plath Macbeth by William Shakespeare The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Assessment: Oral Commentary and Discussion 15% (Internal/Externally Moderated) 10-minute recorded commentary on a poem or poetry extract 10-minute recorded discussion based on one of the remaining Part 2 works

TEXTS WE STUDY SENIOR YEAR Part One: Works in Translation The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Brodeck by Philippe Claudel The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Assessment: Written Assignment 25% (External) Interactive Oral Presentation leading to reflective statement (300-400 words) and supervised writing leading to literary essay (1,200-1,500 words) based on one Part 1 work Part Three: Literary Genres: Novel and Short Story The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Atonement by Ian McEwan Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Assessment: Written Exams (External) Paper One (2 hrs.) Written Commentary 20% Students write a commentary on either a prose or poetry passage Paper Two (2 hrs.) Comparative Study 25% Students respond to one question from three choices (from genre we studied)

Assessment and Evaluation Students will be expected to manage their own reading schedule and are given about four-five weeks to read each text. They should be writing in their Reading Logs as they progress through each work. THE READING LOG Students are asked to record their impressions of, responses to, and reflections on our texts as they are reading them at home Recording what they notice will help students discover the value of their own impressions, observations, questions, and other responses as starting points for illuminating discussions of these literary works The Reading Log also serves as a reservoir of ideas and first-draft writing from which the student can draw upon for the public and more formal papers they will be asked to submit The Reading Log is not graded

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION In addition to writing in their Reading Logs, students will be expected to practice focused freewriting, commentary writing, and literary analysis essays in preparation for the assessments this year At the beginning of each unit, the students will take a reading check assessment At the end of each unit, students will write a commentary or respond to a Paper 2 prompt

Syllabus and Assignment Calendar Feel free to check out my website: http://englishroom244.weebly.com/ You will find my course syllabus and additional assignments on my website Questions? Concerns? I can be reached by email at ddecker@rhcsd.org