Welcome to the 10 IB Wiki!

The main page provides a course overview for the year.  More specific information can be found if you click on the links listed in the sidebar to the right.  Please let me know if you have any questions: lindsay.peifer@spps.org.  

Semester One

Quarter One and Two-- 

• Week One: Cultural Literacy: The List, Why Do Americans Act Like That?, The Nacerima
• Week Two: Finish Nacerima article, start Literary Analysis Review: LRJ Review, Critical Analysis of Poetry, Critical Analysis of Prose
• Week Two-Three: Writing workshop
• Week Three: Comparative mythology—excerpts from The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ramayana, Sundiata, Aeneid
• The epic tradition and Antigone
• The beginnings of English—excerpts from Beowulf
• The Medieval period/early Renaissance—The Inferno, excerpts from The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Everyman
• •     The Renaissance and Dr. Faustus

Quarter Three and Four--

•    Shakespeare: Macbeth and As You Like It

•    Japanese literature

•    17th and 18th Century European literature

•    Chinese literature

•    Romanticism and Victorian literature

•    Independent Novel study

•    The Importance of Being Earnest

•    World Literature in the 20th Century--poetry and short stories