COURSE DESCRIPTION
Welcome! IB English III (Language A1) is a college-level class with college-level requirements and rewards. This academically challenging course is part of the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma Program which will allow you the opportunity to earn an IB Diploma. As such, you are responsible for a series of oral and written assessments which culminate in the IB Exam in May. A number of colleges and universities accept the IB diploma for college credit, which could mean a significant savings for you in time and tuition costs. In this course, we study the artistic use of language of increasing complexity. We strive to become eloquent writers, multifaceted thinkers, and global citizens .
IB ENGLISH HL ASSESSMENTS
In the first year of IB English students are required to read a certain number of literary works (to be explained in more detail later) and complete two of the five IB English HL assessments (the Individual Oral Presentation and the World
Literature Assignment 1). Students’ combined score on these five assessments will be one of the determining factors in their qualification for the IB Diploma. Lessons are designed to prepare you for these assessments as well as the other four assessments to be completed in the senior year (Individual Oral Commentary, Exam Paper 1 and Exam Paper 2).
The IB English HL score is made up of the following assessments :
Exam Paper 1 Commentary
Exam Paper 2 Commentary
World Literature Assignment 1
20%
25%
25%
Senior Year
Senior Year
Junior Year
Due mid-May (TBA)
Individual Oral Commentary
Individual Oral Presentation
15% Senior Year
15% Junior Year
WORK LOAD
The qualities you need to be successful in this class are organization, time management, and a desire to work hard. The amount of reading is prodigious, and much or your reading will be done outside of class. Familiarize yourself with the required reading list and make sure you purchase the books needed well in advance. I will give you the due dates for completion later. Expect to write at least one essay per major literary work (per poet, etc.). Much of the writing will be timed, and we will also be doing a great deal of research in order to prepare for the World Literature Assignment.
Remember you are now in a college level class with college level expectations.
Format for Written Work: All major, planned writing assignments must be typed and double spaced in 12 point font
(Times) with one inch margins all around. Use left, not full justification. See MLA handbook for more specifics. Timed writings and daily assignments must be handwritten in blue or black ink on the front side of the paper only.

CLASS ENVIRONMENT
Please be respectful, be prepared, and be punctual. We will often work in groups, and I expect everyone to participate with pertinent remarks. We will adhere to all DHS and DISD directives. Consequences: warning, teacher detention, parent call, administrative referral.
REASSESSMENT
During this course, you will be assessed through a combination of Minor and Major Summative Assignments. The following is the reassessment guidelines:
 Students will have the opportunity for reassessment on all Major Summative Assignments.
o o o
Only required to allow ONE reassessment opportunity.
Ten school days from the date it is due or from date grade is returned.
Minor Summative reassessment is not required if the material will be covered on a major summative and o will be used in lieu of reassessing.
We must offer the opportunity to relearn.
o It is the student’s responsibility to show the additional learning to qualify for reassessment
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Behavioral consequences: o o o
1st Offense - Warning & Parent Contact via email
2nd Offense - Teacher Detention & Parent Contact via phone
3rd Offense - Office Referral through TAC & Parent Contact via phone
PLAGIARISM and CHEATING
You are required to read each assigned work carefully, thoughtfully, and entirely by the assigned due date. Plagiarism of any kind, whether from commercially prepared notes, the Internet, or another student’s paper falls under the heading of
“cheating.” Cheating will result behavioral consequences and mandatory recompletion of assignment. EVEN IF YOU
CHANGE THE WORDING OF THE MATERIAL YOU OBTAIN, IT IS STILL PLAGIARISM UNLESS YOU
DOCUMENT YOUR SOURCE AND PROVIDE A WORKS CITED.
Course of Study
Semester 1
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (students must purchase their own copy of this book)
Intensive study of Robert Frost and Langston Huges
* The works listed in semester 1 can be used for the IOP. Any of these can be used for a comparative presentation or as an individual presentation.
Semester 2
Agamemnon by Aeschylus or Oedipus by Sophocles
Hedda Gabler or A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca
* The works listed in semester 2 can be used for the World Literature essay we will write during the second semester.
Other novels, poems and short stories will be used to supplement the course of study.
Portions of this syllabus were borrowed and/or purloined from the genius mind of Mrs. Seeley.