Today we went over how the IB Exams went and discussed what we did in class that was helpful and what suggestions you had for improvement.
I talked to you about the plan for the rest of the year... I will be showing the movie Children of Heaven, an Iranian film, tomorrow and Monday/Tuesday. Then we will be doing more Shakespeare, for fun, a comedy, with no homework, beginning Monday/Tuesday. We will be reading and acting out the play Twelfth Night (as well as watching the movie version). Students had time to finish their in-class essays or study for other exams. Today we finished talking about Langston Hughes.
You began work on a Hughes Study Guide for yourself, which is due on Monday/Tuesday. I shared the instructions with you in your Google Drive. Please bring your copy of Macbeth and your copy of Persepolis to class on Monday. We will be using them! Today we had appointment discussions for the poems "Blues." If you were absent, you can get credit for this by writing a well developed paragraph of analysis of these poems. Use specific evidence from the poems to support your ideas. What do you make of this group of poems? What do you make of "Blues Poetry"? What's interesting about it and what do you notice? What's similar to/different from Hughes' other poetry?
HW: For Friday, read and annotate "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (shared in Google Drive) Today I checked your homework (reading and annotating the 3 poems including "I, Too.")
You read 2 more documents, including an essay from the Smithsonian and Countee Cullen's 1926 review of Hughes' book The Weary Blues. I will share these with you in Google Docs. Then we had a Spiderweb discussion (graded). If you missed this, you need to use the two readings plus the poems. Think of two discussion questions and type a 250 word, double spaced response to each of your questions, supported with evidence from all of the texts. Then we watched the first 20 minutes of a Lanston Hughes documentary from the Voices and Visions series. You can access the documentary here. Today you took the first half of your practice Paper 2 exam. If you were absent and haven't made prior arrangements you will need to arrange to make up this time.
Today we discussed Paper 2. I passed out several handouts and went over them. These handouts are available in your Google Drive.
Tomorrow you will begin a two-day paper 2 exam. This is practice for the IB Paper Two exam, but you will all be graded on it since it is assessing you on the last two works we read and studied, Persepolis and Macbeth. If you will be absent for one or both of these days you will need to contact me about making this up. Today I handed back your practice Paper 1 essays. I gave you some feedback (see Google Slide shared with you if you were absent), read you some strong sample essays, and each of you responded to the last slide in the powerpoint by reflecting and setting goals. If you were absent today, please see me to pick up all the handouts that went along with this part of the lesson.
Then we spent the second half of the class practicing with a past Paper 1. Again, please see me for the handouts. The rest of the week will look like this: Wednesday: Finish up Macbeth, including the rest of Ethan Hawke's Shakespeare Uncovered and watching Act 5. Thursday and Friday: Second and final Practice Paper 1. Bring blue or black ink. Review comments on your first practice exam before coming to class. |
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