English 12IB 2011-12
Magic Thesis Links
Erik Simpson's Five Ways of Looking At a Thesis (from Simpson himself...The "magic thesis guy"!)
Simpson's "Connections" Hypertext Site (very useful)
Erik Simpson's Five Ways of Looking At a Thesis (variation)
Notes from Heaney IOC Practice
Boland Presentation Powerpoints: click links below to download. (Contact presenters directly for files not linked here--see seminar schedule.)
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own
Domestic Violence
Detailed Study: Poetry
Please be a critical consumer of literary criticism! Whatever sources you use--IF you use outside sources at all--you must CITE them properly.
Bowen's note...I am still looking for truly great sources on the poems in our study, especially scholarly criticism and commentary. Please let me know what you find!
Eavan Boland -- some online resources (posted by an IB student from Florida)
50 Places to Find Literary Criticism (not all are equally scholarly...)
Contemporary Poetry Review Magazine
Poets.org: Boland
Poets.org: Heaney
Heaney Biography (Gale Cengage)
Gale's Literary Index (we have SOME but not all of the the references indexed here)
English 12IB 2010-11
http://meaning-of-life-beautiful.tumblr.com/
And the song is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIbUNfg_wmM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
David Foster Wallace -- 2005 Commencement Speech
Meaning of Life / Independent Literature
1. Use your regular school login protocol
2. Click on blue moodle link (upper left of screen)
3. Join the class by selecting 12IB Meaning of Life course under 'Asta Bowen
4. Sign up to reserve your book title: go to the Book Signup database and add entry.
5. Start reading your book. Jump in to the discussions and make your first post by MONDAY 5/16.
DO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR TIME and SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES on this project!
Choosing your work: Check the Book Signup database and "view list" to see which books have already been chosen. Please avoid duplications!
Select a book you have not read before, that is not objectionable by family or community standards, and has "recognized literary merit."
Some lists of works of literature with "recognized literary merit":
Great Books Lists
"The Loose Canon" (Utne Reader)
"Timeless Classics" for young readers (NEH) (SCROLL DOWN and use 9-12 only)
Pulitzer Prizes use Biography/Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, General Nonfiction, Novel, or Poetry
Genre Study: Drama
Drama Conventions Chart (download .doc)
Major Works Form (web page OR download .doc)
WL1&2 Topics In Use at FHS 2011 (as of date noted at top of document)
WLTyping Template (download .doc)
WL Submission Form (download .doc) (refresh/reload page if wrong file comes up)
Your candidate number, needed for submission form AND WL manuscripts, was sent to you in an email under the subject IOC Schedule and Genre Confirmation on 2/4/11. It is included in the last paragraph.
Areas in green below represent the sections of the submission form to be completed by you.
IOC Self-Evaluation Tool (.doc)
Bowen's IOC Essay Demo (note caveat!!)
Registration Fee Form -- 2011 Diploma Candidates
Registration Fee Form -- 2012 Diploma Candidates (Anticipated)
Registration Fee Form -- 2011 Certificate Candidates
Gatsby Chapter Study Guide Template (copy and paste questions into your own document -- Word .doc, Google Doc, etc.
FOR THURSDAY, complete at least one answer each for your page from Chapter 1 and bring to class.
FOR your presentation day NEXT WEEK, complete all answers for your assigned chapter and bring in electronic form to display on projector -- or transparency on overhead. (REMINDER: Always test your tech!)
English 12IB 2009-10
Paper 2 Practice Assignment (download .doc)
Paper 2 Practice Assignment (download .pdf)
Rover Act Summary (download .doc)
Rover Study Guide (download .doc)
Skill Practice Formats (download .doc)
Hamlet IOC Practice Instructions
MilliMicroIOC Form (.doc format)
MilliMicroIOC Form (.html webpage)
Poetry Commentary (from Perrine p. 31, Bowenized)
GG Exam: Instructions for Group and Individual Activity
GG Interp & Analysis Paper Review
The Analytical Paragraph -- Grimes
Literary Analysis Process (Last Chance How-To Dance)
Literary Features Website
from Professor Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College
How to write literary analysis for fiction CAVEAT on #3! Bowen thinks you should choose a topic with sufficient evidence, but NOT too much! Too much evidence 1) will take forever to evaluate, 2) will require a proportionately long paper to analyze, and 3) may indicate an analysis that is too general or too loosely focused.
English 12IB 2008-09
Meaning of Life Project + Presentations
Paper 2 Pointers (disclaimer: use at own discretion!)
Conduct of IB Examinations -- VERY important for everyone taking the IB exams!
Selected Criticism for Paper 2 Preparation
Note that ALL uses in Paper 2--direct or indirect--of ideas not originally your own MUST be CITED in your IB exam. Failure to do so is academic malpractice and may nullify your IB credential.
Othello articles from InfoTrac (need password--not your ID number--to access from off-campus)
Ancona, Francesco Aristide. "'Honest' Iago and the evil nature of words." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 26.1-2 (March 2005): 44(22). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A135246188
Macaulay, Marcia. "When chaos is come again: narrative and narrative analysis in Othello." Style 39.3 (Fall 2005): 259(19). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A150966542
Holmer, Joan Ozark. "Desdemona, woman warrior: 'O, these men, these men!' (4.3.59)." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 17 (Annual 2005): 132(33). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A129814203
Dr. Faustus articles from InfoTrac (need password--not your ID number--to access from off-campus)
Wall-Randell, Sarah. "Doctor Faustus and the printers devil.(Critical essay)." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 48.2 (Spring 2008): 259(24). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A180329328
Sullivan, Ceri. "Faustus and the apple." The Review of English Studies 47.n185 (Feb 1996): 47(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A18164076
Keeble, N. H.. "Doctor Faustus." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205642
"Doctor Faustus." Masterpieces of World Literature (Edition 1989): 199(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 15 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A16674181
Cherry Orchard articles (need password--not your ID number--to access InfoTrac from off-campus)
Bryden, Ronald. "The Snark and the Orchard: A Polemical Afterword(1).(The Cherry Orchard)." Modern Drama 43.2 (Summer 2000): 300. General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A78679071
Sandall, Roger. "Chekhov's tears.(Literature)(Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard)." Quadrant 51.10 (Oct 2007): 68(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A169822740
Sinel, Allen. The Clash of Economic Values. University of British Columbia Theatre. http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/cherry_orchard/subject_chekhov_clash_economic.htm Accessed 18 April 2009.
The Crucible articles (need password--not your ID number--to access InfoTrac from off-campus)
Calhoun, John. "The Crucible." TCI 31.n1 (Jan 1997): 22(4). General OneFile. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:A19029218
Overland, Orm. "The Action and Its Significance: Arthur Millers Struggle with Dramatic Form." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205898
Bonnet, Jean-Marie. "Society vs. The Individual in Arthur Millers The Crucible." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205899
Hayes, Richard. "A review of The Crucible." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Flathead High School. 18 Apr. 2009
Gale Document Number:EJ2101205895
Faust/Cherry Orchard Exam Followup Assignment
Major Works Table (web)
Major Works Table (.doc download)
Common English Errors (Paul Brians, WSU)
Even more rhetorical figures! (for the bold and adventurous)
King: Nonviolence and Racial Justice
Rhetorical Terms
Demo of partial compo entry (analyzing ethos): (see Compo grid for daily A/B/C/D assignments)
| text | feature/s | discussion |
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"We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may happen to be injust." |
ethos repetition parallel syntax verb: optative mood first person plural
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This sentence may increase the comfort level of white audience members--and thereby, for them, enhance the speaker's ethos--as follows. The syntax of this sentence parallels "injustice" and "white people" as objects of the verb "defeat." While it might have been inflammatory and self-defeating in 1957 for a black speaker to discuss "defeat[ing]...white people," with this sentence King makes clear that that is not his goal. He establishes, instead, a goal that can be shared by Americans of any color--that of defeating injustice. Further, he eases the burden of responsibility on white Americans. Rather than blaming them directly for racist attitudes, he treads delicately with the softest possible verbs. The white persons "may" (optative verb) "happen" (not something they chose--perhaps a function of history or society) "to be injust." This refusal to accuse is congruent with King's philosophy of nonviolence. This sentence is itself an example of verbal nonviolence, combining a fierce beginning of the sentence that states the unequivocal goal of the civil rights movement ("We are out to defeeat injustice") with the ultimate refusal to blame. King's use of the first person plural ("we") supports this unifying, idealistic vision.
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Subordination and Coordination 1
Subordination and Coordination 2
AP Language & Comp Exam (Read pp.18-34 for prose analysis examples)
Once you have downloaded the .pdf, navigate through the following sections:
SELECT: English Language and Composition (NOT English Lit & Comp)
Under that, SELECT: The Exam
Under that, SELECT: Sample Multiple-Choice Questions
Igbo Soundbites
Achebe Reading Okigbo poem High quality / fast connection
Achebe Reading Okigbo poem Low quality / slow connection
Bible excerpt (loads slowly)
UCLA Phonetics (loads slowly)
Poetry Exam Prep (Partial Thinking Notes and Invitations)
Bowen insert for Perrine Poetry Process
Poetry Unit -- Detailed Study -- Fall 2008
Paper 2 Practice:
P2 Study Guide (.doc download)
Paper 1 Practice:
POETRY
Academy of American Poets (Poets.org)
Note Poem-A-Day and Archive
Poetry Foundation
Note Literary Links (see Literary Magazines for some short stories)
PROSE
College and University Literary Magazines
Top 10 Literary Magazines (About.com)
Also see other online literary magazines...look for "literary fiction"
History of Theatre
Reviews of the Richard Burton Dr. Faustus
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
GG Detailed Study Form (download MSWord.doc)
External assessment
IB Certificate candidates will sit for Paper 1 and Paper 2 in May, 2008.
AP Literature Essay Questions 1970-2006
AP Reader Suggestions (Good for IB too!!)