IB 12 AGENDA Oct 24-Nov 31 Help Sessions offered during lunch on T & Th by appointment. Dittmar is not available during most Mondays and Fridays during lunch. Please note that agendas are updated throughout the week and are flexible. Unit: Othello Homework for the week 1. Bring Othello to class everyday 2. Did you provide a copy of your extended essay draft to your adviser and then make an appointment to discuss that draft Nov 1? 3. Lit terms test 2, Nov 3 & 4 4. Did you finish reading Act 3 and 4 of Othello by Oct 31. Did you finish reading Othello by Nov 7? 5. Did you turn in your Divided Duty quiz? 6. Did you finish your Handmaid's Test Corrections?

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Students should have arranged a meeting date with advisors prior to Nov 7. (Some have already done this) During that first meeting, students will turn in at least the first 1200 words of their EE. During that first meeting, please schedule a time by Dec 5th to discuss students' first 1200 words. Before your second meeting with students, advisers are expected to review the Extended Essay rubrics for their students' subject areas. Before your second meeting with students, advisers are expected to CAREFULLY read the student's first 1200 words. During your second meeting with students, please provide the student with general comments about the EE draft either in writing on a separate sheet or orally to the student. (Please do not make comments directly on the draft itself) Students should supply a final draft of their EE to you by Dec 19th

Monday, Tuesday Oct 19/20 Journal: Discuss group grades to groups who did not get de-briefed. Lila’s class reviews quiz directions. Savanah’s class covers ten terms and begins quiz.

Quiz: • Write a brief commentary discussing Desdemona’s “Divided Duty” to her husband and her father when justifying her marriage. Do not write more than a page single-spaced or two pages double-spaced. • You must consider the following: ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦

What is the paradoxical logic here? How does this scene portray Desdemona's cunning? What does this scene reveal about the treatment of women at this time? Consider diction, syntax, paradox, personification, etc.

• You will be graded on: ◦ knowledge of text ◦ interpretation of text ◦ discussion of literary devices ◦ Presentation/ organization ◦ use of language

Review 10 lit terms (Lila section does this on Wed) Lit Terms 2 _____ Carpe diem _____ Causal Relationship _____ Apostrophe _____ Banality _____ Catharsis _____ Circumlocution _____ Assonance _____ Archetype _____ Conceit _____ Begging the Question Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Oct 26, 27, 28 Journal: Rearrange the sentences to begin with the underlined word. Next, insert a

comma after the introductory clause. No country possesses such power since the fall of Rome. He will come tomorrow; although, his wife won’t arrive until Saturday. The cop arrested him when he stepped out of the car. We party at the Summer festival after his parents leave town. Lilia’s class begins quiz and covers ten words. Friday, they will finish quiz. Savanah’s class already covered ten words, and will finishes quiz on Thursday when I’m absent. Quiz: • Write a brief commentary discussing Desdemona’s “Divided Duty” to her husband and her father when justifying her marriage. Do not write more than a page single-spaced or two pages double-spaced. • You must consider the following: ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦

What is the paradoxical logic here? How does this scene portray Desdemona's cunning? What does this scene reveal about the treatment of women at this time? Consider diction, syntax, paradox, personification, etc.

• You will be graded on: ◦ knowledge of text ◦ interpretation of text ◦ discussion of literary devices ◦ Presentation/ organization ◦ use of language Tuesday, Nov 1 and Wed, Nov 2 Journal: Quick two sentence reading quiz on plot only (hidden) Question 1 Class: “I will ask him for his place again. He shall tell me I am a drunkard. Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all.” Question 2 Class: “You or any man living may be drunk at a time, man. I'll tell you what you should do. Our general's wife is now the general. ...confess yourself freely to her.

Importune her help to put you in your place again” Who is speaking? Who is being spoken to? What is the occasion, cause, or context for this quote. Only refer to basic plot. No analysis is needed for this “no longer than a paragraph at the most” Students Begin Othello lit term ID when quiz ends depending on class. • Students begin analyzing extract from Iago to prepare for formal commentary (We read extract, assignment, and commentary directions). • Dittmar reviews rubrics for written commentary. • Dittmar discussed guiding questions which reveal the purpose for reading the extract and writing the commentary. • In small groups or independently, Students work on Othello Chart using literary devices from commentary extract. • If Students finish chart, they share out in a class by adding info to a class-based Google doc. • Ditty checks to make sure students are working on charts and awards effort grade. Thursday, Nov 3 and Friday, Nov 4 Journal: Ditty shows the palindrome poem and “Changing Styles” to discuss syntax. At: The Lost Generation: Tone and Syntax Students finish their Lit Terms 2 tests Students continue Othello lit term ID from last class. • Students continue to analyze extract from Iago to prepare for formal commentary (We read extract, assignment, and commentary directions). • Dittmar reviews rubrics for written commentary. • Dittmar discussed guiding questions which reveal the purpose for reading the extract and writing the commentary. • In small groups or independently, Students work on Othello Chart using literary devices from commentary extract. • If Students finish chart, they share out in a class by adding info to a class-based Google doc. • Ditty checks to make sure students are working on charts and awards an effort grade

Students make corrections to their Handmaid's test by

• identifying their mistakes from the student comment key, • providing an example of those mistakes directly or through paraphrase, • and then, correcting those mistakes directly or describing how they would be corrected.

Monday, Nov 7 & Tuesday, Nov 8 Journal: Students finish Handmaid’s Corrections. • Be sure that you share your Othello group charts with your classmates in this class section only when you're done marking up the Iago misogyny passage. • Dittmar checks Othello/ Iago misogyny charts • Be sure that you share your group charts with your classmates in this class section only when you're done. • Dittmar checks student Handmaid corrections. • All groups and sections share out their Iago lit terms charts. Wednesday, Nov 9 & Thursday, Nov 10 Journal: We create a due date for commentary and add it to the Google calendar. Our due date can not conflict with another major IA. • Students may begin planning for writing the Othello commentary by creating outlines and thesis statements. • Students write for one hour, focusing on the Iago misogyny extract. • All students must show me some type of rudimentary plan or the beginnings of a draft even if they chose to work on other assignments during that time. Friday, Nov 11 & Monday, Nov 14 • We create a due date for commentary and add it to the Google calendar. Our due date can not conflict with another major IA. • I explain the presenting Othello extracts assignments, and students begin by selecting aprox. 4o lines. Presenting Othello Extracts • Students work on Othello group projects. Othello Acts and Scenes assigned Acts and scenes

Gabe's Class

Caitlin’s class

Act 1

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NO ONE

Act 2 Act3

Act4 Act5

Tuesday, Nov 15 & Wed, Nov 16 Journal: I cover first five Lit Terms 3 • • • • • • • • • •

Doggerel Diction Either-Or Reasoning Dialect Consonance Double entendre Denotation Didactic Connotation Diatribe

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Othello Groups prepare extract for presentations. I remind students of due date for Othello Group presentations on extracts. Groups have their 40 lines for Othello approved by me. Groups continue on Presenting Othello Extracts

Thursday, Nov 17 & Friday, Nov 18 Journal: I cover second five Lit Terms 3 • • • • • • • • • •

Doggerel Diction Either-Or Reasoning Dialect Consonance Double entendre Denotation Didactic Connotation Diatribe

• Othello Groups finalize extracts for presentations. • Presenting Othello Extracts Monday, Nov 28-Friday, Dec 2nd ALL GROUPS PRESENT OTHELLO EXTRACTS AFTER THE WEEK WE

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