Some BOW-related possibilities

Add the Banksy works at this address to your Banksy street art BOW:
https://matadornetwork.com/change/15-coolest-pieces-environmentalist-street-art-youll-ever-see/

Mona Caron "Weeds": https://monacaron.com/

A Doll's House

How big a part of the following is relevant to A Doll's House and Ibsen?

http://www.playwriting101.com/

Can Ibsen be said to have followed the advice given in the source below?

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-play.html

Sources gleaned following links from Wikipedia to some place and onwards:
Ibsen: http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Ibsen
http://theatredatabase.com/19th_century/henrik_ibsen_001.html
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_urbanities-isben.html
Ibsen and Hitler: http://langblog.englishplus.com/?p=1337
The Quintessence of Ibsenism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence_of_Ibsenism
Nora as a doll:
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/220/nora-as-a-doll-in-henrik-ibsens-a-dolls-home
Contemporary stagings of the play:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/the-marrying-kind
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/10/dolls-house-henrik-ibsen-relevant
Article to commemorate 100 years since Ibsen's death:
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/22-05-2006/80777-ibsen-0/
The Social Significance of the Modern Drama by Emma Goldman:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/pdfs/TheSocialSignificanceoftheModernDrama_SCANDINAVIAN-Ibsen-ADOLLSHOUSE.pdf
Some study materials: http://www.shmoop.com/dolls-house/

You will have a chance to conduct a seminar on A Doll's House so we could learn more about the play and its reception.
You'll do this in pairs. Lots will be drawn, and the pairs and the seminars they'll have to conduct are the following:
Topic 1: Anastasia & Timo
Topic 2: Pradnya & Neel
Topic 3: Enes & Fred
Topic 4: Sithil & Steven
Your seminar must be research-based, i.e. that you are not to give your opinion but are instead to research the play and find out what others have said about it. Give the class a summary of some of the popular academic theories about the play. Your opinion should be of marginal importance.
Use the following links to guide your research + any other that you find useful + the text of the play.
Details:
1: Context
Who was Henrik Ibsen? Where was the play written and under what circumstances? Are there any indications that we have about why Ibsen wrote the play and what he thought about it? Was the play well-received? Tell the class about the environment surrounding the writing and subsequent staging of the play. Do you think that Ibsen’s life had a part to play in his writing this piece? 
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Ibsen
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/drama.html

2: Characters

Nora, it has been said, is perhaps the first feminist ever to be written. Give the class a discussion of the character Nora in the play and a little bit about the background in which she was written. The idea of marriage would also be a good topic to discuss as well as the relationship between men and women. 

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/index.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43490/43490-h/43490-h.htm

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/drama.html

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/three-dimensional-ibsen-politics-feminis/id420879/

3: Reception of the play

It seems that Norway, and even the rest of Europe was not thrilled with A Doll’s House. Why? 

http://www.nndb.com/people/829/000024757/

http://www.theatredatabase.com/19th_century/henrik_ibsen_001.html

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc5w2.htm

http://department.monm.edu/classics/Speel_Festschrift/urban.htm

http://academics.triton.edu/uc/files/dollshse.html#intro

4: The play as a whole

As the play was written so long ago, there have since been reinterpretations of it. Use the links below as starting points on how the play has been changed and re-appropriated for modern-day audiences and provide textual evidence when appropriate. It will be your job to tie together the three other presentations and add to them what you will. 

http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/adollshouserevisted/

https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/articles/dolls-house-articles/gallery/ibsens-audience/

https://londonist.com/2015/06/a-stripped-back-interpretation-of-ibsens-a-dolls-house

https://www.artshub.com.au/2017/07/25/a-dolls-house-254128/

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2020/02/nora-doll-s-house-explores-ibsens-classic-three-different-contexts

https://searchingfornora.com/other-sequels-to-ibsens-a-dolls-house/

A Doll's House Part 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House,_Part_2

(Credit for a considerable part of this webquest must go to the blogger at

http://dollshousewebquest.blogspot.com.ee/)

Full play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0Ll77GZhk&t=4036s (2:14:09)
A little weekend fun just in case: A Lego House (A Doll's House reenacted with the help of Lego figures): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0uMV8CsiG0
And some quizzes: http://www.shmoop.com/dolls-house/quizzes.html

Fabulous photo project by Rene Türk

BOW 

This is in downtown Tartu :)

Things to look for and discuss:
What kind of GIs does this illustrate?
Analyse at least one as you would analyse a photo, and one as you would analyse an advert.
How would you talk about it if the focus is on the GI?
Find out more about the artist.

What kind of poems by Carol Ann Duffy could you connect this to (through the topic and any GI)?

Write the introductory 1-minute introduction to this BOW as if you were using it for your IO.

This should end up in your portfolio. A document with the photos is also available on Tera.

Some social awareness campaigns:
https://art-sheep.com/25-of-the-most-clever-and-powerful-social-awareness-campaigns/

Revision for Paper 1

Text types most often featured in Paper 1: revise their characteristic features.

* web page * blog post * infographic * newspaper or magazine article * opinion column * leaflet * cartoon * comic strip * speech * letter * review * brochure * travel writing * tabloid cover

Don't forget about mood and atmosphere and authorial intent and target reader.

This source helps a lot: https://ibenglishguys.com/paper-one/

NB! 

Answer the guiding question. 

Have a proper thesis statement. 

Introduction and conclusion necessary, too.

What you write should be logical, easy to follow, formal and impersonal. Illustrate with specific examples from the text.

Concentrate on analysis.

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)

The Higher Level Essay (=HLE)

The Higher Level Essay is a 1200-1500 word essay completed internally but externally assessed by an examiner.  It is a processed piece of writing that is completed over time and with guidance from the teacher.

You may write about a non-literary text or texts studied as part of the course. Alternatively, you may write about a literary work studied as part of the course.  You may select any texts or works already studied as part of the course, but texts and works used for the internal assessment (IO) are not acceptable choices. Neither may you use texts intended for Paper 2.

Where you to decide to focus on non-literary texts, and consult a number of texts, it is important that these texts are of the same text type, and that the texts are the work of one writer or producer. Also, at least one of the texts must have been studied in class as part of the course. You may base your essay on texts or works in translation. These should be professional translations. Texts and works in other languages that have not been translated are inappropriate.

The HLE must be your own work and thinking.  There cannot be prescribed topics or titles.   

To reiterate:

The HLE is a 1200-1500 word formal, academic essay.

The HLE is a processed essay and will take time to develop.

The HLE is based on work(s) or text(s) studied in the course.

You select your own topic, title, line of inquiry and thesis although the teacher can guide and support you.

You cannot base your essay on any work or text that was used for the Individual Oral or that will be used for Paper 2.

It is not a requirement to use or consult secondary sources.

Assessment of essays

Assessment of essays:

The maximum mark you can get for a subject in IB is 7.

One way of looking at whether you are there already is to assess your work and deduce points for the following:

* not writing on the topic

* illegible handwriting

* focusing on oneself / not impersonal enough

* using past tenses instead of present ones

* logic hard to follow

* missing or extremely weak introduction or conclusion

* no thesis statement

* short forms

* too few literary terms used, or terms used wrongly

* excessive grammar / vocabulary / spelling problems

* important issues not mentioned

* nothing on authorial intent

* faulty structure (we should be able to see since the beginning where the essay is headed, and it shouldn't be jumping all over the place)