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-- 

Week One

• Tuesday: Review syllabus and class expectations
• Wednesday: Cultural Literacy: The List
• Thursday: Why Do Americans Act Like That?
• Friday: The Nacerima

Week Two

• Monday: Finish Nacerima article, start Literary Analysis Review: LRJ Review, Critical Analysis of Poetry 
• Tuesday: Critical Analysis of Poetry written on An Elementary Class Room in a Slum 
• Wednesday: Critical Analysis of Prose on Chekhov short story "A Problem."
• Thursday: Discussion of critical analysis of prose and poetry.  Prepare for in class written commentary
• Friday: In class written commentary, turn in LRJ. 

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, write LRJ entries on sample biographies.

Week Four: Continue comparative mythology

• Monday-Tuesday: Flood Myths-- The Walam Olum, Hmong Creation Myth, Aztec Creation Myth, Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumarian), Yoruba Creation/Flood Myth, the story of Noah, Flood Myth Comparison Chart.
• Wednesday: Finish Flood Myths, read Chapter one and three in Edith Hamilton's Mythology. 
• Thursday: Edith Hamilton's Mythology.
• Friday: Compartive Mythology Assignment; turn in LRJ.

Week Five:

• Monday: Google Documents, Comparative Mythology Assignment, database tutorial with passwords
• Tuesday: Comparative Mythology Assignment
• Wednesday: Comparative Mythology Assignment
• Thursday-Friday: excerpts from The Iliad

Week Six: Comparative Mythology Assignment Presentations; excerpts from the Odyssey

Week Seven-Eight: excerpts from Ramayana, Sundiata, and Aeneid

Week Nine: The epic tradition and Antigone.  Biography Paper Due October 20th!

Quarter Two--

Week One: The beginnings of English—excerpts from Beowulf. 

Week Two-Three: The Medieval period/early Renaissance—The Inferno

Week Four: excerpts from The Decameron

Week Five: The Canterbury Tales

Week Six Everyman

Week Seven-Eight: The Renaissance and Dr. Faustus

Week Nine: Review and Finals

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