English 12IB 2017-18
Daily makeup is located at this page.
See example job descriptions on this page.
See production design videos here.
Proposed cuts for script here (need to reduce run time by approx. 20%).
The pitch should be presented in a concise, confident, dynamic style.
See "Mad Men" ad pitch here.
Your pitch should bring forth clear and vivid ideas in the producer’s mind about the entire theatrical event.
Every word is important as it contributes to building a complete image in the producer’s mind. Use metaphors, similes, alliteration, allusions – any type of literary device to build the concept.
You are speaking to an informed and intelligent audience who knows about theatre – use shortcuts where possible and save words for the creative vision. (from site linked above)
Think "three minute theatre": see video here.
The Power of Emotion
The goal of every ...every work of art is identical: to elicit emotion.
We go to the movies and we read books so we can feel something positive or fulfilling, something we can't feel as frequently or as intensely in our everyday lives. The storyteller's job is to create that feeling for the mass audience.
When you're pitching your [concept], you must provide the [director] with a positive emotional experience. And you must convince them that when your concept is made...the story will create an even stronger emotional experience for the people who buy ticketss.
In other words, your goal is to get your [director] to think, "This is a [play] I'd like to see," or... "This is a play that will make a lot of money."
More at: https://www.writersstore.com/the-8-steps-to-a-powerful-pitch/
A Summary of Pitch Presentation Tips
More at: http://www.brightcarbon.com/blog/pitch-presentation-tips-from-amateur-dramatics/
Also:
https://hbr.org/2003/09/how-to-pitch-a-brilliant-idea
World Literature Written Assignment Revision Project 2018
IB Rubric: click here.
Step 1: Topic
Step 2: Thesis
Step 3: Idea Development
Step 4: Introduction
Step 5: Proofread
Step 6: Final Format and Print
Typing template for final submission / upload: Rename as Lastname+Firstinitial+underscore+WA2018. (For example: BowenA_WA2018 ) Do keep the document extension (.doc, .docx, .pdf) as applicable.
Final Checklist (electronic version, in case you are missing the printed one!)
Poetry Part A/B Instructions: view here.
Poetry Part A/B Example and Template: view here.
Selected literary features for poetry here.
Selected index of literary resources for our poems here.
King Study Guide: download template here.
College essay template: download here.
College Essay
Use the template linked above for typing.
When text is complete, revise and correct your first draft to the BEST of your ability, then have at least one friend/family member/colleague peer edit, making marks/comments directly on the page. You will TURN IN this edited copy WITH the final copy.
After receiving input, make the changes you wish and finalize the essay. PRINT the final copy; attach ON TOP OF edited copy, and turn in no later than start of class Monday 10/31/16.
Gatsby Study Guide Template can be downloaded here.
2015-16
Independent Literature / Meaning of Life Book Report Form
Poetry Resources for Heaney located here
Typing Template for Part A poetry handout located here
Reading A Poem
P2 Study Guide: Download here.
Poetry Seminar: Selected Works of Seamus Heaney
Part B Handout due by end of class Tuesday, 12/2/14. Half credit after 3:30 pm 12/2.
Download Part B Handout template here ("Digging" demo by Mrs. Brown / Ms. Bowen).
Selected bibliography of Heaney resources here.
Part A Handout due by end of class Thursday, 11/13/14.
Download Part A Handout template here ("Alphabets" demo by MsB).
Seminar Prep instructions here.
Writing Center 11/13/14: Prose Meaning and finish Part A handout
Your prose meaning should be as detailed as possible, while still remaining inarguable. If you wish to suggest possible responses, try qualifiers such as "seems," "appears," or "as if." ONE PAGE handouts are due at the end of the period.
By now you should have received a list of "selected resources" for your Heaney poem. The complete bibliography is linked here.
Part A Presentations/ Discussions begin Monday.
If you finish with time remaining, you may wish to look at this background information on Heaney from the Poetry Foundation.
Writing Center 11/12/14: finish Line by Line notes -- note on Discussion Questions
Please note: Example discussion questions on handout demo ("Alphabets") do not reference _any_ literary features! We are still in the stage of experiencing and understanding the poem (Part A); analysis will come later.
If you finish with time remaining, you may wish to look at this background information on Heaney from the Poetry Foundation.
Writing Center 11/11/14: Line by Line notes
Use dictionary, encyclopedia, etc., to find relevant explanations for words your classmates might not know. Include definitions, historical/cultural references, allusions, etc.
As you work, NOTICE what happens to your _own_ understanding of the poem as its "prose meaning" becomes clearer to you, so that you can guide your colleagues to the key terms they need to know and understand.
Be sure you choose RELEVANT definitions and explanations -- and be alert for MULTIPLE meanings that may add to the effect of the text.
Keep track of sources used, and create MLA style bibliography for them. (The single-word definitions may be collectively cited, but use parenthetical documentation for any inferences that could be arguable.)
If you finish with time remaining, you may wish to look at this background information on Heaney from the Poetry Foundation.
College Essay Formatting:
Name
Period
Date
College Essay
____ word count (actual text, not whole document)
Audience (which college or scholarship)
Prompt: (from website or app)
Title (if applicable)
Essay itself typed, DOUBLE-spaced
At end: please tell me what particular feedback you would like -- length, word choice, focus, organization, tone, etc.
Meaning of Life Project 2014
Online Forum: Click here to initiate and respond to discussions.
Choosing your work: Check the Book Signup register to see which books have already been selected. Please avoid duplications!
Choose 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) and "Loose Canon" Part 2
"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
The List: "A Year of Reading the World"
Doctor Faustus Theatre Proposal
World Literature Submission Form
Works of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia (Stanford University)
IOC Practice
IOC Graded Practice Transcript and Reflection Form (click to download .doc)
Monday Funday 11/4/13:
A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths (World Version)
Poetry Seminar 2013
Poetry Seminar Evaluation / Grading
Please be judicious in your selection of resources... Do try Ebsco and JSTOR at the FHS Library page.
Heaney Resources
David Fawbert (analysis of poems in Death of A Naturalist, District and Circle, Human Chain and North)
Poets.org: Heaney
The Journal (news)
General Poetry Resources
50 Places to Find Literary Criticism (not all are equally scholarly...)
Contemporary Poetry Review Magazine
Specific Poem Resources
College Essay 2013
Typing template: download here.
IB Exam Resources:
Earnest Chronology (extra credit opportunity!!)
Hamlet Study Guide -- Group Research Document Per. 3
Hamlet Study Guide -- Group Research Document Per. 7
Utah Shakespeare Festival Resources (Hamlet)
Utah Shakespeare Festival Resources (general)
Folger Library (Hamlet Study Guide) Click link on right sidebar to download full guide.
World Literature Resources:
World Lit Submission Checklist
World Lit Revision Tools packet
World Lit Final Formatting Instructions
Civil Rights Era Character Card (download .doc)
PLEASE CHOOSE YOUR SOURCES **JUDICIOUSLY**
EBSCO Article Database (on-campus access)
Library of Congress Civil Rights Resource Guide
PLEASE CHOOSE YOUR SOURCES **JUDICIOUSLY**
Other resources for Civil Rights Era Character project:
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
National Park Service (Selma to Montgomery March)
Christopher Newport University Civil Rights Resources
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (founder's statement)
Pritchett and Citizen's Councils
Citizen's Council / Tut Patterson
Ernest Withers
Ernest Withers informant?
Civil Rights attitudes of the day
Stokely Carmichael Black Power speech
Malcolm X "God's Judgment" speech
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 |
|---|---|---|
"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!!)