Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chronicle of a Death Foretold TASKS

1. Kitty Genovese Activity—In your journals, write three questions using the following parameters: WE WILL BE DISCUSSING THESE IN CLASS!

a)     CLOSE-ENDED QUESTION:  Write a question about the text that will help everyone in the class come to an agreement about events or characters in the articles.  This type of question usually has a “correct” answer.

b)    OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:  Write an insightful question about the articles that will require proof and group discussion and “construction of logic” to discover or explore the answer to the question.

c)     WORLD CONNECTION QUESTION:  Write a question connecting these news stories to your world.  (How does this affect the way you see the world, how you might react, how you look at other events you read and experience?)

2. Magical Realism:  Write a paragraph of what you understand magical realism to be.  What’s the definition?  Why is it used?  What’s its history?  Also, add any questions you still may have after reading the article.

3. Make a collection of cryptic quotes (quotes that have more than one possible interpretation.) Find at least 2 from each chapter, and provide your best interpretation with each one.  You can do this through post-in noting if you’d like, but be able to get to them quickly for discussion!

BLOGGING:

Because we want you to be ready to actively participate in each group’s chapter presentation, you’ll need to be finished re-reading the book by the day each group presents.  Thus, you’ll see on the calendar that there are some days you are required to blog on TWO chapters.  As a result, we moved the blog COMMENTING until the end.  Some days you will have two posts—but you will not ALSO have to comment those days.  The total count is this: five blog posts—one per chapter—and TWO replies (to be done after you’ve re-read the entire book)=SEVEN TOTAL ENTRIES (to be completed on time, of course).

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Blog Groups, Blogging, Journaling, and Calendar! 

For our discussion/reading of A Doll’s House, you will be reading the play in small groups.  As you read, you will be post-it-noting, discussing, and analyzing.  Doing well with that part will help with your blogging and journals immensely!  We will also be having small and large group discussions—as always! J

For Doll’s House blogging, you have specific instructions each night!  Please refer to your calendar.  You will blog WITH your reading group.  To keep your “finger on the pulse of the class,” you will reply ONLY to posts from OTHER groups in your same class period. This will allow you to pay attention to reading the comments from people who are NOT in your reading group.  Are they talking about the same things your group is talking about?  Find interesting things to bring up with YOUR group the next day.

Post-it noting: make sure you STOP at the end of every few pages and mark down things which you think are worth of post-it-noting!

The groups are as follows:

PERIOD 5

GROUP 1: Morgan, Cullen, Jack, Bella

GROUP 2: Al, Katja, Emily, Felix

GROUP 3: Maleane, Hajir, Elicia, Rishi

GROUP 4: Dante, Eirik, Brittany, Katie

GROUP 5:, Adam, Sarah G., Nam, Cyan

GROUP 6: Kaelin, Nick, Abhi, Esther

GROUP 7: Noah, Justin, Kaleelah, Gabrielle , Dan

GROUP 8: Isaac, Issabell, McKenna P., Ariel

GROUP 9: Sarah P., Zeyad, Jared, Avery

 PERIOD 7

GROUP 1: Karim, Andrea, Ana, Rebekah

GROUP 2: Jessica, Brady, Diana, Chris

GROUP 3: Kelly, Kylie, Delfina, Sophia, Jin

GROUP 4: Maya, Kaylee, Thomas, Molly

 GROUP 5: Alicia, Casey, Amber, Kris

GROUP 6: Holly, Nathan, Gabriela, Rachel

GROUP 7: Elise, Laurel, Elliot, McKenna Z.

Doll’s House Calendar—Ballard/Murai—IB English HL I—2016                                                                                           ODD DAY CALENDAR

2/1 Semester Two Expectations Receive Vocab List #7 Begin A Doll’s House: Ibsen Intro & Victorian Era Discussion “Dressing the Scene” Calendar/Blog Requirements HW: Finish “Dressing the Scene”	2/2 (ext ½)	2/3 Share “Dressing the scene” Finish PPT Victorian Period Begin reading groups HW: Blog on something you found interesting while reading/discussing today from ACT I AND comment on a post from another group (in your class period)	2/4 (ext 3/adv)	2/5 Continue Reading A Doll’s House in groups Act One Questions HW: Post on something interesting you discussed/ read in class today from Act I or II AND comment on a post from another group (in your class period).
2/8 (ext 4/5) 5th Extended:  Receive College Presentation information	2/9 Vocab Test 7 New Vocab List Whip Continue Reading in groups HW: Choose a specific QUOTE you found interesting from ACT II and post on that quote.  What made it so interesting?  Why is it important to the play?  Don’t neglect literary devices! AND comment on a post from another group (in your class period)	2/10 (ext 6/7) 7th Extended:  Receive College Presentation information	2/11 Continue A Doll’s House Should be reading ACT II – III by now in groups Beginning of Act Three discussion questions HW: Post on something interesting you talked about today in your group from Act III AND comment on a post from another group (in your class period)	2/12 (Advisory 90)
2/15 NO SCHOOL PRESIDENT’S DAY HOLIDAY! J	2/16 Cont. reading the play.  You should be close to being done! HW: Post on something you found interesting from the play AND comment on a post from another group (in your class period). ALSO work on the TWO paper journal responses. Prepare for fishbowl!	2/17 (ext ½)	2/18 FISHBOWL HW: Prepare for the test/reflective statement	2/19 (ext 3/cram the cage)
2/22 DOLL’S HOUSE TEST HW: prepare for supervised write	2/23 (ext 4/5) Extended 5th:  Counselor Visit?	2/24 Doll’s House Supervised Write REFLECTIVE STATEMENT DUE	2/25 (ext 6/7)	2/26
2/29 (ext ½) Start Chronicle of  Death Foretold	3/1  Counselor Visit?	3/2 (advisory 90)	3/3	3/4

CHOOSE TWO OF THE FOLLOWING AND RESPOND TO THEM IN YOUR PAPER JOURNAL.  EACH SHOULD BE ROUGHLY ONE PAGE HAND-WRITTEN:

1.       Many readers find Nora an admirable character for having the courage to make a radical change in her life. However, one question that must be considered in evaluating her character is this one: Was she right to abandon her children? 

2. Research the life of Ibsen, then discuss whether he would defend male preeminence in in the home or advocate equality between spouses. You might be surprised by what your research turns up. 

3. Why did Ibsen include Dr. Rank in the play? What purpose does he serve?

4. Does Torvald have any redeeming qualities?

Interactive Oral and Supervised Writing

Remember, the Interactive Oral is a discussion that will be graded on participation that the whole class will have at the end of the unit.  We will structure it in a way that allows everyone the opportunity to participate. After the Interactive Oral will be the “Supervised Write.”  This is an in-class writing that will be based upon the Interactive Oral and all the information and insights you glean from discussion. 

Later in the semester, you will be writing the “Written Assignment” based on at one of the works we read this semester.  The topic for this paper MUST come from the Supervised Writings you do.  If you are not in class for the Interactive Oral, you cannot use that particular work for the Written Assignment. I’m telling you this now so that you realize how important your attendance is (if you already didn’t know! J).  Plus, making up an “interactive oral” is very difficult, if not impossible.  So it’s not great for your grade, either!