Welcome to IB Senior English. This Course Meets the Graduation Requirements of Walnuthigh

Chalew/Booth, August 2013

Welcome to IB Senior English. This course meets the graduation requirements of WalnutHigh School and the entrance requirements of the University of California. Of course, it will also prepare you for the Language A1 portion of your IB Diploma.

Worksheets and other material will be available on the WHS website (walnuths.net). You will be responsible for downloading and completing all work before class begins.

The literature which we study during the first semester will prepare you for the Individual Oral Commentary, which takes place at the end of first semester. With this in mind, we will be spending most of class time discussing and preparing for this portion of your exam. Grades will be based on daily participation, oral presentations, journals, and essays; however, the focus will be on oral participation.

During second semester, we will study literature which you will use to write your May exams, and a part of your grade will rely heavily on essay writing and class participation.A partial reading list for this course includes:

1st Semester:

Part 2 – Detailed Study

Shakespeare – Macbeth

Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter

Frost Poetry

IOC

2nd Semester:

Part 3 – Groups of Works

Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World

Chopin The Awakening

NgoziPurple Hibiscus

MistrySwimming Lessons

Paper 1:Unseen Commentary

Paper 2:Part 3 prompt

Expected Behavior:

• Students are expected to do the assigned work, including all of the reading.
• Participation is a must!
• Cheating is not allowed. For many students, Cliffs, Barron’s, Sparks, and etc. offer help in understanding the literature. However, using these Notes as the basis for any writing or reading the Notes without reading the full work, is cheating.
• Plagiarism is not allowed. Any student found to have plagiarized will be disciplined; this may include loss of grades or suspension from class. The IB Honor Code is quite explicit. It states that students must affirm that any work which they turn in is in fact their own original work. Therefore, any student who chooses to ignore the IB Honor Code and turns in plagiarized work runs the risk of being removed from the IB program.

Grading:

Tests 30%

Journals/HW/Essays20%

Oral Participation50%

I have read the class description and understand what is expected in order to successfully complete IB Senior English.

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