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
Week Two
Week Two-Three: Writing workshop and Comparative mythology—excerpts from The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ramayana, Sundiata, Aeneid
- Monday: Hero's Journey Notes
- Tuesday: Finish Hero's Journey Notes, watch excerpt of Joseph Campbell video "The Hero's Journey."
- Wednesday-Friday: Assign Biography assignment, read sample biographies
Week Four: Continue comparative mythology
- Monday-TuesdayFlood Myths: The Walam Olum, Hmong Creation Myth, Aztec Creation Myth
- Wednesday: excerpts from The Iliad
- Thursday: exceprts from the Odyssey
- Friday: Ramayana, Sundiata, Aeneid
- Week Five: The epic tradition and Antigone and the beginnings of English—excerpts from Beowulf
- Week Six-Seven: The Medieval period/early Renaissance—The Inferno, excerpts from The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Everyman
- Week Eight-Nine: 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
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