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)

Belief and values: Beauty (work in progress)

Task: Discuss what beauty is for you with your classmates.

Put your ideas about what it is in poem form. Share. 

An example by me:

From dawn to sunset

Beauty is what beauty does

Lends a helping hand

© Erika

Lines of inquiry

How are social constructs of beauty and gender created and communicated? (factual)

To what degree does one's cultural perspective shape one's understanding of gender and beauty? (conceptual) 

To what degree do media platforms have a responsibility to communicate healthy constructs of beauty? (debatable)

Beauty standards through history: https://www.scienceofpeople.com/beauty-standards/ (3:09)

Is beauty in the average? (read this and some related texts from the same site): 

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/is-beauty-in-the-average-or-the-individual.html

Techniques in advertising: 

https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/techniques-word-shapes-advertising-26060.html

Ugly = the new pretty: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/7/21/ugly-is-the-new-pretty-bologna/

Vocabulary to talk about beauty: NB! Not every word is formal enough for using in IB assignments

https://boompositive.com/blogs/positivethesaurus/words-to-describe-beauty-synonyms

https://www.words-to-use.com/words/beauty/ (Discuss the quotes :) )

TED talks about beauty: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TED+beauty

Task (portfolio and presentation and blog): Choose one TED talk on beauty (not to same as any of your classmates), watch it and make a short presentation to class (including presenter, specific topic, main points they make and ideas they put forth + examples, specialist terms, your own opinion of the issue, anything else you deem worthwhile).

See the document (on Tera) on summarising to help you with language choices. 

In addition, make a blog post on it (incl. link to where it can be watched, main idea, GI). It could be in the same blog post with your explanation of what beauty is.

To complement PhilpotNew Unit 2.3

Discuss it in detail, make sure you know all the vocabulary and key concepts.

Treat every text as a possibility to practice for Paper 1, i.e. detailed annotation and thinking of a possible guiding question to go with it (if the book has not suggested one). After annotating on your own, discuss with some classmates to pool your ideas. Balance-wise, pay a bit more attention to non-literary texts than literary ones. Save annotations in your portfolio.

Every time you go off the book to read / research something online (as directed by a task in the book, or me, or because of your own interests), share useful / interesting findings on the blog.

Set yourself homework at the end of each discussion lesson (unless the teacher has given you something specific to do). Each time include something that could and should be presented to the whole class the next time.

See which parts of PhilpotNew U2.3 Beauty the following might go together with:

* Same topic, different ways of presenting. What are the advantages and disadvantages of presenting an issue in such ways? Who might be the intended audience? 

How would you word a global issue here?

https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/malnutrition/articles/2018/04/12/in-mauritania-force-feeding-leaves-young-girls-with-long-term-problems

Fed to Wed (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YJm6w2IvU

Objectifying men:

https://www.mainstreethost.com/blog/sex-sells-sexy-men-objectification-men-advertising/

Could this be the beginning of a BOW?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/this-artist-re-created-sexist-vintage-ads-with-the-roles

(http://www.elirezkallah.com/photography)

Why is it so hard to see black and blue (Task 3.10 / Text 2.25): 

https://vulcanpost.com/188081/hard-see-black-blue-salvation-army-puts-thedress-new-light/

Task: Create a BOW :)

Task 3.11: Add catcalling to the list of problems.

Make Your Move!: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/

The Bystander Campaign: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/bystander (BOW!) (read about consent and bystander tips, etc., too)

The language of war

This should support PhilpotNew U4.1 and any war-related texts (incl poems by Duffy)

PhilpotNew pp 208-209: full text of The State of Union Address (George W. Bush, 2003):

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-the-congress-the-state-the-union-23

Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?174799-2/2003-state-union-address (the extract in PhilpotNew Text 4.5 is the very beginning of it)

In any case, pay special attention to how words are used to describe war (euphemisms, blunt language, direct statements, hinting, allusion, imagery, metaphors, etc). Look at what type of text it is, and whether the author's choice of vocabulary, sentence patterns,, imagery, etc, is somehow dependent on the genre of the text, who wrote it, when, about which war, etc. Why has the author made such choices?

 A list of war-related vocabulary: https://myvocabulary.com/word-list/war-vocabulary/

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/war

Sensory language: 

Show, don't tell :)

https://studymoose.com/war-poets-and-the-five-senses-essay

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-bhcc-acceleratedenglish/chapter/sensory-details-examples/

Task: do the mindfulness five senses exercise: 

https://medcenterblog.uvmhealth.org/wellness/physical/mindfulness-mindful-monday-exercise/

Creative portfolio task: Write a paragraph about anything that you want to, using sensory language (all the five senses!)

George Carlin video on euphemisms (PhilpotNew p 210):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1FDWyfvvw (since this is long, leave it as homework)

Related articles (found by class of 2021):

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/the-language-of-war-and-weapons-1.3854 (Niks)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11056757/Why-slang-is-the-language-of-war.html (Nati)

https://soa.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/anthro_theses/russell_sara.pdf

http://www.ugr.es/~jsantana/lies/language_war.htm (Andrei)

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2019/06/euphemisms-acronyms-and-outright-lies-the-language-of-war/ (Kerli)

http://theconversation.com/the-warspeak-permeating-everyday-language-puts-us-all-in-the-trenches-121356 (Marta)

Overview of global issues: 

http://www.worldrevolution.org/projects/globalissuesoverview/overview2/PeaceNew.htm

Turning war into art: https://www.wanderarti.com/turning-war-into-art/ - Is this intertextuality?

Trench art: https://daydreamtourist.com/2015/05/11/trench-art/

More of street art: https://www.streetartbio.com/

An example of a student's art sketchbook:  

https://www.studentartguide.com/featured/war-theme-a-level-art

Task: Start from doing PhilpotNew U4.1 task 1.10 + text 4.7, then move on to curate a class exhibition = BOW of Banksy's war-related pieces of street art. This should be a common document accessible through everyone's portfolio, and each student needs to present one piece of art to class with detailed analysis so that collectively you would have a BOW in which at least half the pieces of art are accompanied with explanations / analyses.

Videos about Banksy: 

Who is Banksy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoe3Nn5vuBg (13:54)

Banksy's street art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSsjC-F9bwk (6:17)

Banksy art hotel in Bethlehem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMS6Ds3qryY

Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMUJ8zFtcu0 /1:26:10)

Street art

To complement PhilpotNew U1.6

Graffiti vs street art: http://www.columbia.edu/~sl3731/graffitiART/
Street art festival Stencibility in Tartu: http://stencibility.eu/
The history
of street art: https://study.com/academy/lesson/street-art-definition-history.html
of graffiti: https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-graffiti-definition-history-types.html
The art of graffiti-tagging:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-04/the-art-of-graffiti-tagging/6959396
Street art terms illustrated:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51583/14-street-art-terms%E2%80%94illustrated
Mural and fresco: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-mural-and-a-fresco
Making a street artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnqEQDDf6Zo (7:03)
Berlin Wall graffiti art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall_graffiti_art
Some Banksy:
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/cctp-725-fall2013/2013/10/28/bansky-art-and-environment-in-street-art/
Most famous street art with a strong message:
https://www.boredpanda.com/environmental-street-art-graffiti-climate-change/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Slap! sticker exhibition: https://www.graffitistreet.com/stencibility-festival-presents-the-slap-van-europes-largest-ever-sticker-exhibition-2019/

(https://www.graffitistreet.com/stencibility-festival-presents-the-slap-van-europes-largest-ever-sticker-exhibition-2019/stencibility-sticker-slap-van-estonia-street-art-12/)

Mextonia: http://www.mextonia.com/
An example not that easy to see:

The Deepest Depths of the Burrow - Street Art & Graffiti Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln54lV-vm94 (1:45:04)
Banksy Exit Through The Gift Shop 2010 eng subs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8iaAFAM58 (1:26:06)

Task: What would you paint on a wall (and where and on what exactly) if you were going to apply for the possibility to make street art during the next Stencibility festival? Draw to scale. Justify your choices of theme, style, colours, figures, text, location, message, target audience, etc. OR design a sticker for the slap van :)