Finalization of Written Tasks

Below are links to documents required for finalizing the written tasks:

Instructions for Finalizing Written Tasks

Students Guide to uploading written tasks

SL Standard Level Written Task cover sheet

HL Higher Level Written Task cover sheet

WT#4 and FOA instructions

These are the points discussed on Thursday prior to the Shakespeare Workshop:

WT#4

•If on Wednesday evening, June 17th, your portfolio does not contain 4 Written Tasks, 3 sets of comments, plus rationales, source lists, etc. then your maximum mark will be a 5

•Best practice: 4 folders, marked WT1, WT2, WT3, WT4, each folder containing all applicable documents

How the report grade for the FOA will be determined:

•IB criteria
•Reflection (- 2points if not in Portfolio within 2 days, 0, ½ or 1 point extra depending on quality
•Delivery and Information Value
•Your written feedback on your peers

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

Propaganda

For a complete overview of propaganda techniques, see the Wikipedia page.  Below are two youtube films on the most common propaganda techniques.

Here is an example of American cold-war propaganda.  What techniques can you identify?

Introduction to the course

IB Language and Literature introduction from Bob Gembey on Vimeo.