Practice!

 Guidelines: ◦ 15 minutes to look at the photo and to take notes ◦ 3-4 minutes speaking (one person) ◦ 5-6 minutes questions /conversation time ◦ Repeat: ◦ 3-4 minutes speaking (one person) ◦ 5-6 minutes questions/conversation time

The Extended Essay What is it? And why should I care?

Extended essay ◦ The extended essay, with a prescribed limit of 4,000 words

 Your Supervisor must be a teacher at WFLMS  Try to select a teacher that you know or have worked with before  Teachers are not required to supervise an extended essay  Teachers normally only supervise 4 to 5 students -- ask early  Your Supervisor DOES NOT need to be your CURRENT teacher (or have ever taught you)

 An English B EE provides students with the opportunity to develop their awareness and knowledge of the language studied, and their understanding of the culture.  Mediums used: ◦ Texts (article, book, play poem) ◦ Specific cultural artifacts (works of art or architecture, films, radio, TV, or music)

 Category 1 – Language  Category 2 – Culture and society  Category 3 - Literature

 This essay should be a specific analysis of the language (its use, structure and so on) normally related to its cultural context or a specific text.  Examples: ◦ Do young people use more words of foreign origin than older people? ◦ How does Western (American) culture correlate colors with thoughts, feelings and emotions?

 A: essays of a sociocultural nature with an impact on the language  The essay should be an analysis of a cultural nature that describes the impact of a particular issue on the form or use of the language. ◦ Example: To what extent does the language used by groups of young students from a secondary school in Los Angeles reflect racial discrimination?

 B: essays of a general cultural nature based on specific cultural artifacts  Examples: ◦ Social criticism in the songs of Rage Against the Machine ◦ Adverts in the British media ◦ Representation of women in hip hop ◦ Graffiti in NYC in the 1960s compared with today

 This essay should be an analysis of a literary type. All texts must originally have been written in the target language ◦ Examples:  Comparison of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World concept of “future”  The American Dream as depicted in The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman  What was Edith Wharton's attitude towards women’s empowerment as depicted in five of her novels?

 The iceberg analogy illustrates clearly the importance of the analysis / research / experimentation that underpins the completed essay.

Chinese A (Group 1)English B (Group 2) PhysicsHistory Visual ArtsEconomics BiologyChemistry Mathematics What subjects might you be interested in writing your EE in? Make a list!

 Task: ◦ Create brainstorming webs for the EE subjects you are interested in ◦ Possible brainstorm “bubbles” –  Why do you like the subject?  Topic ideas  Supervisors?  The possibilities are endless  You have the remainder of today’s class to work on this.  I will all of you the EE guidebook after today’s class

 POLL Report – Due Friday November 30 th