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• August 21, 2016 August 21, 2016 Timeline

  Please create your timeline in your journal on the first 2-4 pages. Just draw a central line, and after creating a list of all the significant events that have happened in your life so far, then place them as dots above the timeline if they are positive, and below the timeline is they are negative, and then you can join the dots going from birth to present. You can place the very positive ones the highest on the page, and the most negative ones the lowest on the page. There is no requirement as to... (continued)

• August 15, 2016 August 15, 2016 Welcome back!

  Hello all my IB students, and welcome to IBLA12! We will be starting the year off with your summer reading assessment, then moving to writing personal and college essays while reading Heart of Darkness along the way. Then we move on to Hamlet and we finish the semester with the poetry of Derek Walcott to prepare for the IB Oral Exams which come up in January. I hope all of you are ready to work hard, and we will have some fun along the way. I look forward to meeting all of you and getting to know... (continued)

• October 25, 2012 October 25, 2012 David Tennent speaking on Hamlet

  A previous student, Sarah Bragg, sent me a great set of four Youtube documentaries about how difficult it is to play Hamlet. David Tennent (Dr Who) visits the Globe Theatre, plays clips from different versions of Hamlet, and goes into the history of the play as well. Very interesting, and worth a watch!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBuKQ7z1b78&feature=relmfu

  and also you can watch the David Tennent version of Hamlet on You tube:

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Upcoming Assignments

• Due Tomorrow HOD Group presentations
• Due Block Day Read secondary source materials for HOD

  Please read three of the critical articles on HOD in your text. You will read H.L. Mencken's review of HOD on pp. xxi-xxxiii, Lionel Trilling's review on pp.xli-xliv in the preface, and Chinua Achebe's review on pp.xlv-lii in the preface. While reading these reviews underline or highlight the words, phrases, sentences or passages that you think are the most powerful statements about the Heart of Darkness. Compare where these three critics are writing from and why they admire or despise Conrad's writing in this novel.

• Due Friday Begin HOD Artistic Expression Presentations

  Each student will present their artistic expression of Heart of Darkness by reading the passage you chose or explaining the theme or motif you are referring to, then presenting your artistic expression to the class.

• Due Oct 07 HOD Timed Writing

  You will receive four essay questions, but you will choose only one to write on for the full period.

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