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IB English 2
Ms. Broccolino
ebroccolino@aacps.org
Rm 212-C
Items you may already know
 IB
Learner Profile
 IB Mission Statement
 Developing a sense of international
mindedness
 What about this course develops these
things?
 Our website
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Course/Text Overview
Semester One
Sept-Oct
Unit/Text
Area of Interaction
Major Assessments
Poetry: Selected
Robert Frost Poems
Poetic elements, oral
commentary,
theme, tone, diction,
etc., close reading
Drama: Hamlet
(Shakespeare)
Dramatic elements,
character
development,
structure,
Shakespeare,
purpose, theme,
tone, diction, etc.,
close reading
Social commentary,
non-fiction
techniques,
structure, author’s
purpose, theme,
tone, diction, etc.,
close reading
Oral
Commentary #1
(mid-October;
rubric from
IOCD*)
Full Literary
Analysis
(beginning of
January; rubric
from Paper #1*)
Oct-Nov
Dec-Jan
(Non-Fiction)
Slouching Toward
Bethlehem (Didion)
Modified Literary
Analysis (end of
January; rubric
from Paper #1*)
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Overview continued
Semester Two
Jan-Feb
Feb-March
Unit/Text
Area of Interaction
Major Assessments
1984 (Orwell)
Social commentary,
fiction techniques,
time period, setting,
author’s purpose,
theme, tone, diction,
etc., close reading
Oral
Commentary #2:
Practice IOCD*
(beginning of
Feb.)
IB Internal Exam:
Individual Oral
Commentary
and Discussion*
(end of Feb.)
The Great Gatsby
(Fitzgerald)
April
Their Eyes Were
Watching God
(Hurston)
Literary Analysis
(mid-April; rubric
from Paper #2)
May
Things Fall Apart
(Achebe)
IB External Exam:
Paper #1 and
Paper #2
(beginning of
May)
The Assessments
The IOCD
 Individual Oral
Commentary and
Discussion
 20 minutes to analyze a
poem by Robert Frost
 8 minutes to discuss it
 2 minutes of questions
 10 minutes to discuss a
different previous work
from first semester
 Takes place end of
February (more specific
dates to come)
The Papers
 Paper 1-Written analysis
on poetry or prose not
studied by the student
 Paper 2-Written analysis
of works studied during
second semester
 Two days, two hours
each
 Beginning of May
Assignments, Grading, Re-do
Re-Do Policy
 Opportunity
to re-
do major
assessments in
order to master the
standards
 IB Exams do not fall
into re-do
Grades
 10%
HW
 10% Classwork
 40% Writing
 40% Other
Assessments