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 * 1) ===New English Literature Course- IB Guidelines===
 * 2) ===English Literature Option Syllabus 2011-2013===
 * 3) ===Rubrics for different components- English Literature 2013 ===
 * 4) ===IOP Procedures and guidelines- New Lit Syllabus 2011 ===
 * 5) ===Past Question Papers- Genre specific and General ===
 * 6) ===General Resources- Literary Elements===
 * 7) ===Narratives- Different Styles===
 * 8) ===Trimester 4 Syllabus- Year two & Trimester 1 syllabus Year one===
 * 9) === Plan for First year Lit class till the summer break ===
 * 10) ===2nd Year HL and SL Syllabus and Assessments plan for 2012===
 * 11) ===HL- Rubrics- Assessments-Orals-Written tasks===
 * 12) ===Commentary writing tips===
 * 13) ===Prose & Poem Analysis- Requirements===
 * 14) ===Approaching a poem- A first timer's approach to poetry analysis at IBDP level===
 * 15) ===Connectives===
 * 16) ===Literary devices in prose passages===
 * 17) ===Reading a text- Making log entries===
 * 18) ===Useful tips for Critical Reading- Prof John Lye===
 * 19) ===Writing a commentary for unseen passages and extracts===
 * 20) ===Language Appreciation Guide===
 * 21) ===Grade descriptors and boundaries- English Lit Course===
 * 22) ===Peer Editing checklist===
 * 23) ===MLA Formatting Style with examples===
 * 24) === A few commentary writing guidelines for paper 1 ===
 * 25) **Organising a commentary**

**WLE Checklist before submission** **Highly graded World Literature Essays- SAMPLES (WLE 1 & 2)**

**Assessments for Trimester 1 (1st Year) & Trimester 4 (2nd Year)**
September- Macbeth Resources September- [] For a through analysis of all elements of Macbeth, visit this site. Macbeth- Shakespeare's Tragedies & Shakespeare's Tragic Hero September- Macbeth - Thematic Structure September- Macbeth- Important Passages Macbeth- The Elizabethan World & Superstitions September- Macbeth- Sample thesis statements September- Macbeth- Quotations September- Macbeth- Act 3 Questions and topics September- Macbeth- Literary Devices September- Macbeth- Themes & Imagery September- Macbeth- Are you a man? Some interesting facts from the play

__**September Assignments List**__ September- Macbeth- 1st Assignment for both years September- 30th Macbeth Assignment- HL 2nd Year only September-30th Macbeth Assignment- 1st Year HL Literature Group September-30th Macbeth- Assignment for 2nd Year SL- Group 1

**__October Assignments List__** Macbeth -Creative Projects - Eng Lit- 1st Year Robert Frost- **//Home Burial-//** home work questions for English Lit-first year students Robert Frost- Assignment for 2nd year SL group 1 and 2

October- Robert Frost poem collection Robert Frost- Biographical Information, Themes, Imagery, Poetic techniques Robert Frost- After Apple Picking Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost- Love and a Question Robert Frost- Home Burial Robert Frost - A Considerable Speck Robert Frost - Ghost House Mending Wall- Robert Frost Out, Out- Robert Frost

November - Pygmalion- Bernard Shaw- English Lit Course Pygmalion- Background social and economic

English Lit- Part 4- Poems (IOP) - Individual Oral Presentation Selections from Donne, Browning and Plath Plath- Life and times- Daddy unravelled Daddy- Critical deconstruction Tulips- Sylvia Plath Tulips- Assignment questions A Valediction Forbidding Mourning- John Donne Sweetest Love, I do not Go- John Donne

The Guide- R K Narayan English A1 HL The Guide- Scholarly article to help you understand the novel The Guide- A Post Colonial Reading

George Orwell- Essays English A1 HL George Orwell in today's world Shooting an Elephant- G.Orwell Reflections on Gandhi- G.Orwell You and the Atomic Bomb- G. Orwell CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK REVIEWER- G. Orwell HL Assignment- George Orwell Group - Questions from Confessions of a Book Reviewwer

IOC Preparations Macbeth podcast quiz and explanations

**January-2012 Holiday Assignment-**

**English Lit group** ** - Hour of the Star- Fakewall project **


 * A1 HL- Holiday assignment **

**English A1 SL Groups- Pride & Prejudice- Novel Review**

**January 2012- English Lit -First Year**

**World Literature-Antigone- Sophocles**

**Antigone- Reflective statement samples**

**IOC Reflections- HL Class 2012**

**February 2012- English A1** **Exploring the Jane Austen world**
 * Pride & Prejudice- **
 * Vindication of the Rights of Women- A comparative study with Pride & Prejudice **
 * Pride & Prejudice- Historical Connections **
 * Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice- The Novel as Historical Source **
 * Pride & Prejudice- PPT succession, social and economic conditions **
 * Letters and their role in Pride & Prejudice **
 * Autobiographical Elements in Pride & Prejudice **
 * Gender roles in Jane Austen's society **
 * Irony in Pride & Prejudice (some examples) **
 * Some more literary elements in Pride & Prejudice **
 * Propriety- Pride & Prejudice **
 * Parenting- Different aspects in Pride & Prejudice **

**First Year Lit Group** **H.Ibsen's- A Doll's House** **Reader - Response approach to Texts** **Marxist & Feminist Reading- A Doll's House** **A Doll's House- Naturalism in Drama**