Tuesday, March 31, 2009

IB Literature of the Americas

March 31/April 1

After viewing the end of the film of Like Water for Chocolate, we discussed important themes in the novel in preparation for the IB Detailed/Imaginative Study. I introduced and gave out a reading schedule for Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The homework is to read chapters 1 and 2.

IB 20th C. Global Literature

March 31/April 1

Students presented their Artistic Responses to Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I gave out a reading schedule for Toni Morrison's Sula and the 2009 AP/IB exam schedule. The homework is to read p. 1-16 of Sula.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

IB Literature of the Americas


March 3/4


Today we finished the amazing My Antonia IB Oral Presentations. I collected the essays.

I introduced Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and the homework is to read chapters 1 and 2.

IB 20th C. Global Literature


March 3/4

Today we viewed and discussed the end of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

I introduced Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. The homework is to read p. 3-29.