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Readers, Writers and Texts.Dreams & disappointment
DESCRIPTION:
Readers, writers and texts aims to introduce students to the skills and approaches required to closely examine texts as well as to introduce metacognitive awareness of the nature of the discipline by considering the following guiding conceptual questions:
1. Why and how do we study language and literature?
2. How are we affected by texts in various ways?
3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted?
4. How does language use vary amongst text types and amongst literary forms?
5. How does the structure or style of a text affect meaning?
6. How do texts offer insights and challenges?
TEXTS: SL+HL
Body of work: MICHELLE OBAMA, speeches:
- 2008 Michelle Obama Democratic National Convention Speech
- 2012 September 4th, Remarks by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention
- 2016, July 26, Remarks by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention
- 2015, May 9th, Remarks by the First Lady at Tuskegee University Commencement Address
- 2020 Michelle Obama: "Dear Class of 2020 speech"
Michelle Obama BoW put into perspective :
Biography, Michelle Obama: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/michelle-obama/
"I, too, sing America" - Langston Hughes (poem) 1925
Work of literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY, 1925
HL ADDITIONAL STUDY: BoW JOSÉ ANTONIO VARGAS - Opinion columns
- Magazine cover and article (June 25, 2012)
- "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" (June 22, 2011)
- "I'm undocumented. It's time to reveal what that actually means"
(The Guardian, Oct. 12, 2018)
- "My Family’s Papers" (The New York Times, Feb. 12, 2013)
- "Immigration Debate: The Problem with the Word Illegal" (Time Magazine, Sep. 21, 2012)
- Vargas: Undocumented and hiding in plain sight
(Special to CNN, June 30, 2014)
Vargas BoW out into persepctive:
Documentary: "Clínica de Migrantes" by Maxim Pozdorovkin (2017, HBO)
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
"Being American" Holm, Mette: "Being American: identity, politics and contemporary society" - 2nd ed. (Gyldendal, 2020) pp. 8-21
James Truslow Adams: Epic of America (citat)
https://libquotes.com/james-truslow-adams/works/the-epic-of-america
Language / Non-Fiction
• Rhetorical pentagram (How to read a non-fiction text in "Toolbox")
• IB ENGLISH A: Analyzing Speeches - Video 2 (by the IB English Guys): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74VI3CavRt0
• Stylistic devices (modes of persuasion, imagery, metaphors/extended metaphors, alliteration, allusion etc.)
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Literature / Fiction
• Literary Genres
• Narrative technique
• Characterization
• CAIP Model for analysis of fiction
• Imagery
• Symbolism
HL: "How to describe a picture" in Toolbox - composition, colours, scale, bodylanguage/facial expressions etc.
ST+HL: Introduction to Paper 1
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