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

Literary texts we'll be working with

Carol Ann Duffy's poetry (Europe, the UK, 20th-21st century; SL/HL)

Kate Chopin's short stories (America, the US, 19th century, SL/HL)

Hendrik Ibsen's play ""A Doll's House" (Europe, Norway, translation, 19th century, SL/HL)

NB! The three above are the ones you can use for the IO.

In your IO, you are not supposed to mention your name or the name of your school. So, start with something like the following:

I'm a Language A English Language and Literature student, and for my Individual Oral today I have chosen the Global Issue of ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\s novel "Purple Hibiscus" (Africa + America, Nigeria / the US; 21st century, SL/HL)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (Europe, Russia, translation, 20th century, HL/SL?)

Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" (Europe, the UK, 20th-21st century, HL)

Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Find out what life was like in her time in America:

http://histclo.com/country/us/hist/19/ush19.html

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj67/morgan.htm

http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history

History of Louisiana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Louisiana

American suffrage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States

http://www.history.com/topics/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html

Kate Chopin: http://www.angelfire.com/nv/English243/Chopin.html

http://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/bio-books-stories

Short story elements:

http://www.slideshare.net/guest6bbfe8d/elements-of-plot

How to analyse a short story: http://ndla.no/en/node/9075

The Kate Chopin International Society: http://www.katechopin.org/

In connection with all the stories, discuss the following:

* setting * characters (not only names but what kind of people they are as individuals and as representatives of some group, and how they develop / change) * themes * language * creating local colour * symbols

* the part that would be best suited for the IO, and what kind of global issue would it be connected to

Regionalism and local colour: https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/culture-magazines/regionalism-and-local-color-fiction

https://southernspaces.org/2004/local-color/

Close vs distant reading: 

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-attempt-to-discover-the-laws-of-literature (When you open it, read it till the end, The New Yorker limits your free access to something like 3 articles a month.)

To complement PhilpotNew U 3.2 and 3.3

Colonialism:

A potential text to use for task 2.11 on page 173: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/native-north-americans/

Immigration:

Possibly complements PhilpotNew U3.3 Immigration

Warsan Shire "Home": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9D92Xiygo

John Marsden and Shaun Tan "The Rabbits":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vT9Ru4NBo (allegorical picture book)

The rabbit problem: http://www.rabbitfreeaustralia.com.au/rabbits/the-rabbit-problem/

Shaun Tan "The Arrival" as a film part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJc3Ew2CBEE

History of human migration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_migration

Map of human migration: https://legacy.calacademy.org//human-odyssey/map/

Some short lists of best books on immigration:

https://bookriot.com/2019/09/11/best-books-about-immigrants/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/05/migration-book-recommendations-american-dirt

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/search/immigration?page=1&q=immigration

Poems: https://bookriot.com/2018/07/06/immigration-poems/

Google for immigration posters :)

The American Dirt controversy:

https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/american-dirt-book-controversy-explained.html

TED talks on immigration: https://www.ted.com/talks?topics%5B%5D=immigration

"Welcome to the New World" would be a great graphic novel to read here if we had it. Read about it a bit here: http://www.michaelsloan.net/welcome-to-the-new-world