Revision for Paper 1 - some useful links

Political cartoons: https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/analyzing-political-cartoons#

https://www.blitznotes.org/ib/eng-langlit-sl/cartoon_conventions.html

Comic strips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEj-2uD7CSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gsOANQZ-fI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4PVTF9RI6U

Comic book cover: https://language-literature.com/ib-dp-language-a-language-and-literature-sample-text-analysis-comic-book-cover/

Basic plots: https://medium.com/swlh/writing-the-basic-plots-634443e764ee#:~:

Welcome to Atonement

What we'll try to do (the order might vary, at first based on the first part, then the whole novel):

1) Background search on different contexts (share sources and info):

* Ian McEwan as the author

* Britain in 1935

* the class system in Britain between World Wars

2) Finding non-literary texts that would allow us to revise different text types and enlighten us about something related to this novel at the same time (ongoing work)

3) Putting together a detailed timeline

4) Compiling character profiles

6) Describing how the Tallis household functions (social class and power issues)

+ Briony reads The Waves by Virginia Woolf --> read (fragments) here if interested (6 different viewpoints interspersed with detailed descriptions of the sea, which function as means of moving from one consciousness into another):

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201091h.html

After reading the whole novel:

Ongoing work on the timeline, character profiles (with quotes, and events that bring about changes in the characters), finding non-literary texts, and discussing important issues.

+ Discussion questions

(See this, too, for one opinion: https://jacquemoreau.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/the-tallis-household/)

+ Brian Finney essay: http://web.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/mcewan.html

+ Convince me to like or hate Briony

+ Object descriptions

+ Fiction and metafiction

+ Metonymy and class

+ Watching the film

+ Some creative writing (if you'd like to have some)

Some useful resources for the background search:

Ian McEwan homepage: http://www.ianmcewan.com/

Britain 1930s timeline (if you google this phrase, you'll get a lot more, maybe some even better):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml

1935 in the UK: 

Everyday life in Britain in the 1930s: http://www.localhistories.org/1930slife.html

Thirties Britain (The National Archives):

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/thirties-britain/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2641959/British-Council-film-archive-reveals-life-1930s-40s-Britain.html

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/7483/economics/the-uk-economy-in-the-1930s/

http://www.capx.co/what-did-britain-really-look-like-in-the-1930s/

Some on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpNcHTG4uM (poverty, 12:25)

A short video on the stately house in which part 1 of Atonement was filmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFB6EdlR08 (Stokesay Court, 6:16)

Google for pictures: British manor houses 1930s

You can listen to a bit of Minding the Manor: the Memoir of a 1930 English Kitchen Maid by Mollie Moran here: http://www.amazon.com/Minding-Manor-Memoir-English-Kitchen/dp/0762796839

The fate of Britain's historic homes. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2101933/Englands-lost-Downtons-Or-endless-homes-ended-bypasses-office-blocks-golf-courses.html

Task: When reading, if you notice anything mentioned that might have existed in real life (people, places, politics, etc.), google them and find out more, e.g. Bernini's Triton in the Piazza Barberini in Rome (p18 in the 2002 Vintage publication I own, first page of Chapter 2)

Read for background and a video-related task:

https://g20languageandliterature.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/atonement-background-context/

https://youtu.be/CvuVfgZ9wcI (26:41)

Poem about Kambili

 Kambili, a gentle soul, so kind
Her spirit shines, makes us blind
Aunty Ifeoma sees her grow

Her courage like a flower in the snow
From darkness, she has risen to light
Her heart, shining bright
Aunty Ifeoma holds her close
Her future, a path with hope

A purple hibiscus, so rare
Her spirit, a symbol, of what's there
Aunty Ifeoma is proud of her
Kambili, a flower of power

Poem

 About my thoughts and feelings, that I have in my mind

Of a daughter named Kambili, whom I love with all my heart

But with my actions, I've torn us far apart.

She's gentle like a hibiscus flower, delicate and fair

With a soul that shines brighter than the sun, beyond compare.

But I've chased power, wealth, and control, with a heavy hand

And in the process, I've hurt her, breaking her spirit and command.

I've silenced her voice, that was once so soft and sweet

And left her in fear, with no peace in her feet.

I regret the pain I've caused, the love I neglected

And I want to make amends, to heal what I've affected.

So, Kambili, I ask for your forgiveness, and to take my hand

Together, we'll heal, and find a better land.

Atonement

 Can be read here but not downloaded:

https://www.studocu.com/en-au/document/the-university-of-notre-dame-australia/english-3/ian-mcewan-atonement-pdf/20996449

Jaja as Persona - Poetry o'Fred

Truth's hurt

Papa launches a missile at our dinner, after I refuse to cower

His feckless, hissing words, pleading God! for power

Mama's face - seething grows, breathing tough from behind long-lost boos

She wilts like a flower

My truth hurts you, because embedding is sour

Kambili, words struggle this hour

Your hurt's true too 

What more could bravado do

Let's sit and join, merrily devour

'd by the Wrath

Yet this path is no truth 

to Power 

Violence

1) Trace Papa's abuse: What causes it and how do family members respond?

Possible introductory paragraph:

There are numerous issues that many societies tend to share across time and place. One of such is violence, be it on personal or societal level. Nigerian-American author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has investigated this theme in her 2004 novel "Purple Hibiscus" through the Achike family dynamics, especially the father of the protagonist, who presents himself to the community as a kind, benevolent man but inside the family compound is overly strict and controlling and abusive of both his spouse and children.

2) Main types of violence in Purple Hibiscus:

• domestic

• gender

• psychological

• colonial

Discussion:

1. What has made Papa such a violent father? 

2. What kinds of things trigger his violence? 

3. Why don’t his wife and children actively resist his violence earlier? 

4. What do you think of Amaka’s statement “Some people can’t handle stress”? 

5. Do you think Mama’s action was justified? 

6. Why do you think Jaja wanted to take the blame for her crime? 

7. What kind of message does the novel as a whole give us about domestic violence?

(https://www.cram.com/essay/Violence-In-Purple-Hibiscus/FKJJ7T8K5J)

8. How would you behave in a similar situation?

9) What advice would you give each character?

3) Make a 3-4-minute oral essay on the topic you drew in class (based on Purple Hibiscus):

* An exploration of the connections between differing forms of violence in Nigeria after colonialism.

* Gender-based violence manifests in the form of domestic violence.

* Papa uses violence to enforce his own kind of oppression on his family.

* Just as colonialism resulted in a corrupt independent government, so papa's violence compels Mama to poison and murder him.

* Papa is a "colonial product", a man who has bought into the colonial mindset. 

* Women of different status are shown to use different means of resisting patriarchy and violence in the quest for liberating relationships.

* Exploration of the intersectionality of gender, class, race, religion, postcoloniality and power.

* Exploration of violence sprung from cultural conflict.

4) Reflection on Violence (1969) by Hannah Arendt

A pair-writing task for your portfolio

Choose one page of the essay on violence that you believe is most representative of her writing style and the main issues in this essay.

Treat it like a Paper 1 text. Come up with your own guiding question, and write.

This will help you recall how to tackle Paper 1: https://philpot.education/mod/page/view.php?id=19

Have another pair read your essay and suggest improvements / additions / alternative approaches.

Hannah Arendt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

5) Exam preparation:

Find a page-long extract from Purple Hibiscus that you believe best reflects abuse and violence in the novel. Compare this to a text provided in class.

Purple Hibiscus discussion

 In which order would you like to discuss the following?

* bildungsroman

* themes

* Kambili: * change * silence * relationships * love

* role of women

* politics and culture

* violence

* silence and truth

Main themes in Purple Hibiscus

 In alphabetical order:
* alienation

* colonialism and Nigerian politics
* family 
* freedom vs tyranny

* hypocrisy
* identity
* love
* oppression
* power
* religion and belief
* silence and speech
* tradition
* violence

Purple Hibiscus background

Wikipedia (so obvious):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Hibiscus (do NOT read details about the book before you have actually read the book itself!!!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra

Also consult maps of the world, Africa, Nigeria, and Biafra.

Biafran War as the background:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/596712.stm

African writing online:

http://www.african-writing.com/six/writersbriefs.htm

Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie website (unofficial):

http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/

Listen to the music of Fela Kuti on Youtube:)

Watch videos on the Nigeria-Biafra War:

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0K4RrbntFE

parts 3 / 4: search for them (removed from Yutube)

part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl4YcVLxUzw

part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GecXi4xycYE

part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An7IZBBATTM

Ojukwu's speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-__6EwtRLeM

Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiOUsXyjTZg

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on powerful words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNdm_aN0Uc&feature=related

(this is part 1, so there are other parts, definitely part 2)

Task: Explore your thoughts on the book

Compare the worlds of The World's Wife and Purple Hibiscus.

Read Novel as a genre (Unit 8) in this book, and take notes;

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/8686058/download/121

One day in the life of Neel

     December 6th 2022, I remember this day quite vividly, as it was a rather "special day." I remember waking up somewhat earlier then usual, though albeit suffering from much more fatigue as well. I woke up to the unpleasant feeling of cold win hitting my feet which had somehow found their way out of my bed covers and laid there, out in the open. Despite the discomfort, I got off my bed and prepared myself for school, first dressing up with whatever clothing I could find (I'm not much of a stylistic individual) and then proceeded to give my pet fish their much awaited breakfast, I then went on to enjoy breakfast of my own that my mother had so lovingly made. I remember the breakfast vividly, my mother had made some of the best toast I had eaten in a while. After devouring my food I immediately headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth, however something had caught my attention, a foul an putrid smell seemed to emanate from under our dining table.

     The unholy sight laid before left me aghast, I could not help but cough and gag at the foul odor, my cat, like the vile thing it is had decided to unleash its bowels under our dining table. I acted quickly, and cleaned it as best I could, however the time was ticking and I was going to be late for school. I quickly picked up the fecal matter and tossed it in the trash, I then rushed to the bathroom, there I brushed my teeth as if there was no tomorrow and bolted to school. On numerous occasions I almost tripped and fell in the treacherous terrain, especially considering it was winter and all I had were but a measly pair of summer sneakers. After reaching school my mind went dark, and I cant quite recall the day on its own.

     I do remember the end of my day however, I remembered how dry and tired my eyes felt, as I studied some chemistry on my old monitor, I remember the great meal my mother had made, a "wine rooster" is the accurate French translation I believe. And I remember taking a nice cold shower and having the fear shaken out of me when I saw a huge house spider laying its we right by my side. Fear, disgust and fascination were the emotions I felt when I laid eyes upon the arachnid, it had a leopard like pattern I had never seen before, its huge black eyes were constantly observing me, even as it performed its task, following my every move. After contemplating whether or not to leave it alone, I decided I would not bother it, it would be a pretty useful cleaner to get rid of all the pesky silverfish I thought to myself. After that I remember feeding my fish their second and las meal of the day, chatting with friends and finally going to bed, where it took me about half an hour to finally fall asleep.

One day in the life of Sithil

 One day in the life of Sithil

The night ends the morning of December sixth begins. Sithil is warm under his blankets, asleep. The alarm rings, and he turns it off without even looking. The routine has built up muscle memory which makes the task somewhat automatic. Five minutes have passed, and he is still in his bed, hardly awake. A few more minutes passed, and he remembered he should not let his eyes close. From his experience, he knows that if he lets his eyes close, he travels forward in time, waking up an hour later than planned. Ten minutes have passed since the alarm, yet he is in bed. After stretching for a few seconds, he immediately gets out of bed. The clock shows 7:15. Twenty minutes countdown begins in his head as he rushes to get ready. After heating some oatmeal, he gulps it in less than five minutes. He quickly scans his wardrobe for an outfit and goes off to the bus stop roughly 800m away. As he walks out, the wonderful Estonian winter greets him with bitterly cold wind and a thick layer of snow. Luckily, he makes it to the bus just in time. 

For Sithil, today is a busy day, seven lessons in a row followed by a physics test. In the first two lessons, he struggles hardly to stay awake. The quietness and the boredom of the task in the biology class make his brain go numb. His neurons are still asleep, waiting for stimulation. Time passes quickly, and it is time for his physics test. Sithil panics as his friends point out some unfamiliar calculations. Nevertheless, he decides to let fate govern his grade. After looking at the test, he feels relieved. It is much easier than he had anticipated and a sense of confidence builds in him. After the test, he is surprised to see that he did well. As for the rest of his physics lesson, he tries to find a logical answer to one of the questions. After many attempts, he succeeds and heads home. He grabs some food, sits at his desk, proceeds to watch some fascinating content, and decides to make some art for the rest of the evening.

One day in the life of Enes

 One day in the life of Enes 

Enes leads a somewhat dull life. At seven in the morning, he awakens and, like any normal person, immediately shuts off his alarm and moves to the opposite side of the bed. He finally gets himself out of bed and starts his typical morning routine. This involves grooming himself, dressing, and tending to his fish. The next priority after this is catching the bus, because failing to do so would result in being late for a lesson. Before he gets to the school, however, the bus ride is a somewhat boring ten minutes, and frequently, it is packed with passengers, forcing everyone to sit uncomfortably near to one another.

He starts his first session as soon as he gets to school and will have a variety of lessons over the next six to seven hours. However, a break in between is extremely rare, and frequently, the only time he has to unwind is during his lunch break. Other times he may have an extra break, which is a great soothing touch to the day. When school is over, he gets dressed up and takes the same tedious bus ride home. Occasionally, though, he misses this bus and must travel to the city's center to catch another one. At home, getting dressed and getting some stuff to eat comes first. The next challenging task is doing all the assigned schoolwork; only then can he relax, but frequently even this isn't enough because half of the day has already passed and he still needs to feed his fish, go through his nightly routine, and prepare the bed. This cycle never ends, and it's only when school is out that Enes can actually unwind and enjoy life.

One Day in the Life of Timo

The day was rather simple; wake up, go to school, and come back home. Timo wakes up and turns around to look at what the time is. As he rubs his eyes to improve his vision, he notices that he wakes up rather late. At 8:17am, Timo quickly rushes to his closet, puts on his clothes, and quickly eats breakfast. By the time he has done his morning routine, he checks the time on his phone and it reads '8:35am'. His first lesson has already started. He thinks about which is the quickest method to get to school. Usually, he would wake up from 6:45am to 7am, which gives him enough time to do his morning routine and start walking to school. The walk takes approximately 25mins. He knows that if he starts walking to school now, he will miss the first biology lesson. Instead, he decides to order a bolt to pick him up and drop him off at school. He opens the app on his phone, places the destination and walks out of the house.

The bolt has arrived. He grabs his bag, lifts it off his shoulder, places it in the car, and goes in the backseat. The driver looks at the destination and understands that he is in a rush to get to school. He asks with a smirk on his face, 'late for class?'. Timo laughs and replies, 'yes, I am rather late for class'. While on the ride to school, he opens his phone and scrolls through TikTok to pass the time. As the car turns a corner, the driver asks, 'are you Russian?'. 'No, I'm not Russian but Estonian'. 'Ah...you have a strong accent so it was hard to tell'. 'Yeah, but I am also English, I come from the UK'. 'Ah an Englishman, I am guessing you study in English, not Estonian?'. 'Yeah I have been studying in English for my whole life and I am not quite fluent in Estonian'. The car approaches the school and Timo grabs his bag, says goodbye and thanks to the driver, and hurries off for his class. 

The school day is over, and he makes his way home. He opens the front door and takes off his winter boots and his heavy winter coat. The bag with his laptop and charger inside had been killing his shoulder throughout the day and is finally able to take it off and relax. He checks Stuudium to see what homework needs to be done. No homework for tomorrow. He goes over some of his notes that he made in school, gets a little bit ahead in chemistry by moving on to the next sub-topic and calls it a day. He is rather hungry, so he gets a burger from the fridge to microwave. After a satisfying meal, he switches the TV on and enjoys the rest of his evening. 

HLE again

 What has been done before:

1) 24 May 2022 double lesson (hopefully you have your notes)

2) PhilpotNew U7 pp 300-304-319 (including two examples with assessors' comments)

3) PhilpotNew p xix + marking scale for HLE: pp xxvii-xxviii

4) 18 May 2022 blog post

5) Tera HLE folder: this is what is there at the moment, most of it since the year 2020 (some more might be added)

6) Today:

https://ibenglishguys.com/higher-level-essay/

(HLE from start to finish)

Paper 2 again

NB! See also my 21 Feb 2022 blog post.
Generally, Paper 2 exam essay questions seem to be concentrating on the following:
* Form and Structure
* Personal judgement, often can ask about a “lens” - cultural - feminist - etc.
* Themes or characterization - maybe conflict
* Broad Concept - beliefs - home - etc.

NB! See my 16 May 2022 blog post on assessment of essays.

What makes a text timeless and literary???
timeless = not affected by the passage of time or changes in fashion.
literary = having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect
Some sample Paper 2 questions:
1) Literature is often said to be timeless. To what extent is this true of two works you have studied?
2) How can we explain the continued interest in a particular work in different contexts and at different times?

The following could all be significant. Put them in the order of importance for you:
* an original, interesting plot
* well-rounded characters that are not perfect but easy to relate to
* a good conflict to build the story around, a good climax and resolution
* a well-done ending
* interesting use of language
* good use of literary devices and techniques
* being set in an interesting world
* themes of major importance and universal interest discussed
* aesthetic value

Possible reasons brought out by some earlier students (not a definitive list):
* reader being able to relate to the themes (real-life history, human struggle, epic fight good vs evil, existential questions)
* the characters have distinctive voices (characteristic of the time and place)
* life-like characters develop throughout the story (round and dynamic vs flat and static, see: https://prezi.com/c7kkzijg2-fa/characters-round-and-flat-static-vs-dynamic/)
* different elements work together (plot, character development, writing technique, etc)
* the text
               includes several different viewpoints
               is easily readable but not simplistic
               allows multiple interpretations
               gives a good overview of the world the story is set in
               caters for the reader's intellectual, emotional, ethical, and
                                                                       spiritual development
               makes the reader question sth, ask questions
                                                                  and search for answers
               makes the reader think about themselves, their times,
                                                                          their society, etc (familiarity)

Literary criticism

15 types: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/literary-theory-explained

Feminist criticism:  https://www.thoughtco.com/feminist-literary-criticism-3528960#:~:text

Marxist criticism: https://writingcommons.org/section/research/research-methods/textual-methods/literary-criticism/marxist-criticism/#:~:text

Queer theory: https://literariness.org/2019/03/04/queer-theory/

Gay/lesbian studieshttps://literariness.org/2018/11/15/gay-lesbian-studies/

NB! See Literary criticism generic questions (on Tera)

Abstract issues as possible themes

Two possible Paper 2 questions:
If beauty is a relative term, how do two of the works you have studied explore this idea?
How does a particular term or concept, such as childhood, change in the way it is represented in the texts you have studied?

The following list of abstract issues that might appear in literature was coined by some previous IB students. 

Discuss which of them are present in  Carol Ann Duffy's (CAD) poetry, which in Kate Chopin's (KC) short stories, which in the play "A Doll's House" (ADH), which in "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1D)? How?

Which would you pair for a specific theme in Paper 2? 

NB! If you choose poetry, you have to discuss THREE poems. (IB seems to think 2 is too little.)

Later on we'll be also discussing their occurrence in the other literary texts you can use in Paper 2 (in which you can use literary texts that we have dealt with in class, but not the ones you used for your IO or HLE).

• (un)employment ADH
• (un)happiness ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• adolescence CAD, ADH
• adultery CAD, KC
• atonement ADH, KC, 1D
• belief ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• bereavement 
• betrayal ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• challenge ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• childhood ADH?
• civilisation  ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• comedy 1D?
• correspondence 1D. ADH
• crime KC, ADH
• devotion ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• discrimination ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• education CAD, ADH, KC
• experience ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• family ADH, KC, 1D
• feminism ADH, CAD, KC
• freedom  ADH, KC, 1D
• friendship ADH, 1D
• guilt ADH, KC, 1D
• hatred ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• help ADH, KC, 1D
• hope  ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• humour ADH, CAD, KC, 1D?
• imagination CAD
• influence ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• intelligence ADH, 1D
• loss ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• love  ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• loyalty ADH, KC, 1D
• magic CAD
• manhood 1D, CAD
• marriage ADH, KC, CAD
• mystery ADH, CAD, KC, 1D?
• obsession ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• pain ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• passion KC, 1D, ADH
• peace CAD
• politeness KC
• politics CAD, 1D
• power ADH, KC, 1D
• property KC
• punishment 1D 
• race KC
• regret KC
• relationships ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• religion 1D
• rumours / gossip KC
• satisfaction ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• self-expression CAD, ADH
• silence 
• slavery KC, 1D
• social class KC, 1D
• social standards ADH, KC
• stubbornness ADH, CAD, KC, 1D
• the supernatural
• torture 1D
• tradition(s) 
• war CAD, 1D
• wealth ADH, KC
• witchcraft
• womanhood ADH, CAD, KC

Is there anything you would like to add?

One Day in the Life of I.D. (work in progress)

Quoting Wikipedia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and describes a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.

Task: Make a list of background issues you need to research to be able to comment on the different contexts of this story.

Writing in second person:
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-writing-in-second-person.html
Deportations from Estonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Estonia
Map of Gulag camps:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/4269mb/map_of_gulag_camps_in_the_ussr_which_existed_from/

Gulag history: https://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/living.php.html

In Detailed study questions (on Tera, the doc with "ideas" as the last word, beginning on p6), which one question from each section is the most promising from the viewpoint of discussion rather than just finding facts from the text?

Socialist realism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism

https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/literature-other-modern-languages/russian-and-eastern-european-literature/socialist-realism

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/socialist_realism

Revision of tone and mood

Differences and examples: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/tone-vs-mood#what-is-tone-in-literature

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/difference-between-tone-and-mood-in-literature.html
Tone and mood words doc on Tera

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/ewaszolek/mood-and-tone-27156461

Novels that take place in a single day: 

https://electricliterature.com/15-novels-that-take-place-in-a-single-day/

Stalag 17: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_17

Stalag 17 film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKc2GJk2OLQ (2 hrs)

Symbols / Imagery / Allegory in One Day: numbers as new identities; medical ward (cleanliness)

https://www.shmoop.com/ivan-denisovich/symbolism-imagery.html (light; food (esp bread); symbols of religion and polite manners (sharing is caring?); snow, ice, cold; Shukhov's possessions; throat cutting...)

Task: Discuss this list of abstract issues as themes (see relevant blog post)

Task: What makes a text timeless and literary???

timeless = not affected by the passage of time or changes in fashion

literary = having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect

1970 film on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqG1uwhTX2o (1:45:48)

How to analyse a film: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/film-analysis/

NB! Do not go on before the whole novel has been discussed in detail

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: One Book, One Chicago Spring 2006 (includes quite a lot of background info + some discussion questions): 

https://www.chipublib.org/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-one-book-one-chicago-spring-2006/

Sparknotes: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/denisovich/

Creative task: Day in the life of ...

My Paper 2

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iq7QKBxXEwnWOPl2hjeo6ZUXiZ6JX7iOt4zomb6mUVw/edit?usp=drivesdk

u can leave notes in the file

BOW Robert Capa

Here are some of the collected works of Robert Capa, war and other photgrapher. 

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/robert-capa?all/all/all/all/0