IB Reading/Annotation Deadlines (this doesn’t include other homework)

A-day due dates / Reading or Annotations / B-day due dates
21 Feb. / Never Let Me Go, part 1 / 20 Feb.
25 Feb. / Never Let Me Go, part 2 / 22 Feb.
27 Feb. / Never Let Me Go, part 3 / 26 Feb.
1 Mar. / Never Let Me Go annotations / 4 Mar.
11 Mar. / The Road*, pgs 1-77 / 12 Mar.
13 Mar. / The Road*, pgs 77-159 / 14 Mar.
15 Mar. / The Road*, pgs 159-214 / 18 Mar.
19 Mar. / The Road*, pgs 214-end / 20 Mar.
21 Mar. / The Road annotations due** / 22 Mar.

*page numbers from the Vintage International paperback edition – 2006); quotations are provided for help if your page numbers are different)

Begins with… / Ends with…
Section 1 / Page 1 / He sat there cowled in the blanket. After a while he looked up. Are we still the good guys? he said.
Yes. We’re still the good guys.
And we will always be.
Yes. We will always be.
Okay.
Section 2 / In the morning they came up out of the ravine and took the road again. He’d carved the boy a flute from a piece of roadside cane and he took it from his coat and gave it to him. / He stopped. What happened to your flute?
I threw it away.
You threw it away?
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
Section 3 / In the long gray dusk they crossed a river and stopped and looked down from the concrete balustrade at the slow dead water passing underneath. / paragraph ends with:
They’d tied a small length of pipe to the can to sink it and they crouched over the tank like apes fishing with sticks in an anthill for the better part of an hour until the jug was full. Then they screwed on the cap and set the jug in the bottom rack of the cart and went on.
Section 4 / Long days. Open country with the ash blowing over the road. The boy sat by the fire at night with the pieces of the map across his knees. He had the names of the towns and rivers by heart and he measured their progress daily. / The end of the book

**There is no way to do section summaries or section titles for The Road. Scoring rubric for annotations:

A /
  • Complete annotations throughout book includes recognition and analysis of literary devices and understanding of “significant” and “key” information.
  • Inside covers complete.
  • Top margins complete.

B /
  • Annotations throughout reflects recognition of literary devices with a basic demonstration of understanding of style.
  • Inside covers complete.

C /
  • Annotations generally throughout showing basic understanding of content. Few remarks or mainly reactionary remarks.
  • Inside covers listed, but not commented upon.

D /
  • Feeble attempt to meet the minimum expectations of the assignment. Only a portion of the work completely annotated.

F / Random markings with little to no commentary.
0 / No annotations.