Literary features

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What is theme (self-quiz)?

More on theme

What is irony?

Tone and mood

Paper 2 Post-SE review

Tips for paper 2 from Bob Gembey

See also  these posts

Constructing a Paper 2

The presentation I gave on how to write a Paper 2 can  be found here.

Planning to end of year

Dear students,

NOTE: THIS PLANNING IS FOR Bv6a; SDR WILL INFORM Bv6b OF HER PLANNING. MIXED GROUPS CAN ONLY DO THEIR FOAs ON FEBRUARY 10th OR 15th

Below you can see the planning until the IB exam.

The table below shows the full calendar with my planning until the IB exam, plus any other known dates that I am aware of that may affect your ability to do an FOA. 

Week No	Start	Mon 1	Mon 2	Tues	Wed 1	Wed 2
1	4-1-2016	Planning	Oral Prac	WAPZ	Listening	Viewing
2	11-1-2016	SE WEEK: Orals
3	18-1-2016	SE WEEK		WAPZ	WAPZ	WAPZ
4	25-1-2016	No Lessons all week
5	1-2-2016	WAPZ	WAPZ	WAPZ	No Lessons Study Day
6	8-2-2016	Paper 2 Practice		Review	Grp 3 Grp 9 30 min
		THURSDAY: FINALIZED WTs HANDED IN
7	15-2-2016	Grp 6 Grp 8 30 min		Training	Cent. Exam Practice
		THURSDAY: PWS PRESENTATIE AVOND
8	22-2-2016	Grp 5 Vincent, Titia		Review CE	Grp 4 70 minutes
9	29-2-2016	Vacation
10	7-3-2016	Grp 2 Grp 7 30 min		Group 1	Literature Review
		WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY ON STAGE
11	14-3-2016	Paper 2 Practice		Review	Literature Review
12	21-3-2016	SE Week
13	28-3-2016	Easter Monday		P1 Review	Paper 1 Practice
14	4-4-2016	Cent. Exam Practice		Review	Paper 1 Practice
15	11-4-2016	Free choice Practice		Review	Paper 1/Paper 2 Review
16	18-4-2016	NO MORE LESSONS
17	25-4-2016
18	2-5-2016	Paper 1		Paper 2

Woman at Point Zero introduction

Pages have been added on Woman at Point Zero:

• Nawal El Sadaawi
• Harassment in Egypt (video)
• Articles on Women in Egypt 

The Things They Carried

For Part 3, we will be reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, which is a composite novel or a short story cycle based on the author's own experiences during the Vietnam War in the 1960s.  Although the book itself was written in the 1980s, the context of the work is the 1960s, as it was the events of that time that clearly shaped the author's sensibilities and are reflected on in the novel.

For more details, refer to this page.

One-point errors

From now on, every time you make one of these errors, it will cost you One point off your grade for that assignment for each error!

• Using "from" when the right word is "of" and vice versa.
• "The boy his shoes" or "the girl her bag"
• "Consists out of"
• "Ofcourse"
• "Eventhough"
• "Make homework"
• "Make a test"
• "i" as a pronoun as a small letter.
• "On school"
• "Afterall"
• "Succes" and "succesfull"
• "I sport" or "I am a sporter"
• "Your" or "youre" instead of "you're"
• "All of a sudden" 
• "mister" or "misses"

Band of Brothers speech

Literary terms

Theme:

Introduction to the course

IB Language and Literature introduction from Bob Gembey on Vimeo.