Grade 11: What's in a novel?

Dear All 

This is for self exploration:

Elements of a novel ppt.....continuation of our class !

Write unfettered:)

Dear English HL of Grade 11: choose any one :

Here are your incentives to write with style:)

some music: ( click on the link)  a song from my times

some image: 
some poetry: ( click on the link) my favourite poem

Use your new found knowledge from Unit 2 and have the pleasure of being reflective and creative!Post your writing as a comment to this post.

Dear English HL of Grade 12:

Hadn't had a chance to do this for you in grade 11---do feel free to participate...have some fun!

Let's create news: Macbeth Newsletter : Monthly assignment August

Take a look above: Design your own Macbeth newsletter:

Some parametres:

• Base it on significant events of Act 1
• Atleast one interview must be presented
• You must use direct quotes or references to the text to show deep familiarity
• Atleast one of the articles must be related to the Middle Ages--"contemporary allusion"
• Just type : free newsletter templates : on google and you will be inundated

Submission date : before you leave for Leadership Camp: Give me some good reading material---shall miss you:)



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Bora's contribution has come in already! Enjoy!

More of the works by Sanika and Grusha!

https://docs.google.com/?tab=mo&authuser=0&pli=1#folders/0ByjG3q_0U3VgVG1JSXc5SURPaGc
 

some great evidences of self learning and peer tutoring

These are from you and for you....https://docs.google.com/?tab=mo&authuser=0&pli=1#folders/0ByjG3q_0U3VgNVltWWxYY3lsLUU

Task 2: Explorations:

As a HL class we need to be voyagers seeking knowledge--I may be the captain of the ship but you all are my able mates! And as we explore , we need to make sure that certain landmarks are discovered. Here is a list of landmarks that we need to touch upon in the first two classes. Please be in a hurry to commit your name beside any one topic or more---it's first come first booking  basis---those of you who are tardy run the danger of being lumped with a topic you don't want or worse still you get nominated by me:(

Deadline for booking Monday, 16July---then you get two whole weeks to prepare for presentation in class.Presentation time --max 10 minutes....we need to discuss too:D

• Sources that Shakespeare used for Macbeth
• Historical Macbeth and link to the Stuarts
• Globe theatre and performance settings--what stage props were for use?
• Shakespeare's audience
• Special terms associated with drama( literary naturally)
• Witchcraft and its association in Elizabethan England
• Why would you want to read Macbeth, apart from the fact that it is part of your DP syllabus and my favourite?
• Could Macbeth have been part of another time and another culture?
• Is Shakespeare's language a barrier to understanding his plays?

Part 2: In detail now


Time to move forward a few centuries...welcome to the glorious reign of the Virgin Queen ...and her Bard...


Read about the flavour of the times:

http://www.bardweb.net/england.html

Macbeth( my favourite)! 

For a first bite into the play: http://library.thinkquest.org/2888/

Check what you know already: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/literature/shakespeare/macbeth.html

Finalising on Aspect--post on blog by 13 June 5 pm

Choose your Aspect question and keep these points in mind:

1. Choose only one work
2. Does the aspect explore a significant concept found in the work?
3. Does it satisfy all the marking criteria ( refer to your student Hand book)?
4. Have you discovered links with the literary devices used?


Look through the very useful website:http://mrhoyesibwebsite.com/

Only difference for you is in the  new syllabus , you deal with only one work. However it is still a good idea to go through this website for guidance.Go the left hand bar and click on the World Literature link.

Post your aspect on the blog and invite comments from other HL students.I shall comment only if I feel that the aspect is totally unsuitable.

Your deadline for this 13 June, 5 pm. Come on , don't groan--your entire first draft deadline is 18th June:)