Newman 12IB Lit
COURSE FINAL
Assignment Category: Major, 200 points
Due Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Tasks: This is a multi-faceted assignment.
Read
As a capstone novel to our dystopian unit, please read Kazuo Ishiguro’s award-winning novel Never Let Me Go.
To prove this, you will submit a one-page explanation of its thematic and stylistic intersections to the other
dystopian works we have studied.
Create
With a partner of your choice from either of my class periods, create an artistic piece, in either a traditional form
such as painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, etc. or as performance art, live or recorded. This artistic
piece should, in some way, be inspired by your studies over the last two years in IB English Literature. You can
create a piece which illustrates the scene or themes from one or more pieces you’ve read, which comments on
how those themes are visible within current or recent history, or which extends the ideas of any author(s) to
some other comment of your choice.
Present
Time to celebrate! On the evening of Tuesday, June 9 (5:30pm,) we will have a reception for you and your
families in C200. You will be given a space for your art installation, (or time for a presentation if you choose to
develop a piece of performance art,) and time to explore the gallery, appreciate your peers’ work, and enjoy the
company of your classmates and their families. Treat this as a social event, and a celebration of all the work
you’ve done as an IB student over the past two years.
For the purposes of our gallery, you should also create a museum plaque to display next to your installation. It
should include the artist names, the title of your piece, and two paragraphs explaining which work(s) inspired
the piece, and how your art relates to or extends the themes or motifs found within those literary works.
Light refreshments will be served.
List of Works Studied, 2013-2015
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
1984 by George Orwell
“The Village Blacksmith” by William Wordsworth Longfellow
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
“The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot
“The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden
“Junior Addict,” “doorknobs,” “Theme for English B,” “Goodbye Christ,” “I Thought It Was Tangiers I
Wanted,” “Brass Spittoons,” “Ruby Brown,” “A Song to a Negro Wash-woman,” “I, Too,” and “The Negro
Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
“On the Road” by Langston Hughes
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Tears, Idle Tears” by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“If and When Dreams Come True” by W.S. Merk
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
“Richard Cory” Edwin Arlington Robinson
“You All Know the Story of the Other Woman” by Anne Sexton
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
“Mushrooms” by Sylvia Plath
“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving
“My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” by Emily Dickinson
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
Various poems by Colleen McElroy
Rubric
200 points
Read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo
Ishiguro, proving as such with a
one-page explanation of its
relation to the other dystopian
works we have studied
Read
Passes
Does Not Pass
[25 points]
[0 points]
Create
Submits or presents an
original, compelling, and
purposeful artistic piece,
either traditional or
performance-based. Art
successfully and
insightfully relates to at
least one of the works
studied over the two
years in IB Literature.
Passes
Partially Passes
Does Not Pass
[75 points]
[25 points]
[0 points]
Present
Partially Passes
Does Not Pass
Attends reception, installs art piece
or gives presentation of
performance art, including an
appropriate, complete, and wellwritten museum plaque.
Attends reception.
Does not attend reception.
[100 points]
[50 points]
[0 points]
Passes
Total: _________ / 200