IOP Calendar—2015—POWERS—71 students (two joint presentations of 20-30 minutes)
FIRST PERIOD
Monday—26
Tuesday—27
Wednesday—28
Thursday—29
Friday—30
First: Daniel Poljack
Topic: Comaping the effect
of war on characters
(emotionally, mentally,
physically) in PWB and
Maus
First: Angela Ho
Topic: Analyze how Emilia
and Desdemona’s roles as
wives changes throughout
Othello
First: Emily Bougher
Topic: Effects of multiple
narrators in PwB
First: Lauren Heidenreich
Topic: Symbolism of rain in
PwB
First: Sahil Verma
Topic: How Vladek’s
blindness affects his
everyday life
Second: Michael Bearman
Topic: Style in which
Spiegleman potrays
Holocaust appropriate?
Second: Tyler Wekeiser
Topic: How the jungle in
TPB supports themes of
change and danger
Second: Evan Paulk
Topic: Comparison of
reliability and POV of
narrators in PwB and
Maus
Second: Hayden Yots
Topic: Psychological
analysis of Iago as
sociopath
Second: Michael Yates
Topic: Inconsistencies in
narration and how it
indicates PTSD in Vladek
SECOND PERIOD
Monday—26
Tuesday—27
Wednesday—28
Thursday—29
Friday—30
First:David Heym
Topic: A comparison of the
Christ Figures in the PwB
and how some can
symbolize the Anti-Christ
(Anatole, Lumumba)
First: Willis Fletcher
Topic: Comparing the
familial relationships and
interactions in Maus to
PwB
First: Tristan Wu
Topic: Analyze the
relationship between
Vladek and Art starting
from childhood
First: Katarina Zayas
Topic: Othello vs Nathan:
A slow descent into
madness
Second: Michael Heym
Topic: Compare and
contrast Maus book one
and two of their symbols
and themes throughout
each
Second: Kayla Ramos
Topic: To what extent did
Othello’s identity change
throughout the play
First: Zac Berryman
Topic: The symbolic
representation of Rachel
Price in the Poisonwood
Bible. How she and her
belongings came to
represent different
aspects of 1960s American
society and
counterculture, and a
comparison to Orleanna
and the traditional
American housewife.
Second: Sohail Mirza
Topic: Compare and
contrast of Lady Macbeth
and Iago with respect to
psychopathy
Second: Queenie Zhang
Topic: The coming of age
of the Price girls and
incorporating Foster’s
elements with it
Second: Brandon Smith
Topic:
THIRD PERIOD
Monday—26
Tuesday—27
Wednesday—28
Thursday—29
Friday—30
First: Rachael Varias
Topic: Trust in Maus and
compare today
First: Abby Carden
Topic: Comparison to
Maus and Castaway using
the element of fall from
grace and the will to
survive
First: Ashley Cool
Topic: Ruth May as Christ
Figure
First:___Anna Litvak_____
Topic: Identity crisis of the
village in regards to
missionaries vs. the
identity crisis of the
African nation.
First:Ariel Noethlich
Topic: The comparison of
Desdemon and Orleanna
with regard to their
changes in personality
Second: Brittany Daigle
Topic: Postmemory in
Maus and effects on
relationships
Second: Cedric Reynolds
Topic: Othello through the
eyes of Iago, analysis of
perspective
Second: Trevor Odom
Topic: Comparing Nathan’s
persona as a control freak Second: Cameron French
to Kubla Khan in Marco
Topic: Analyzing trauma,
Polo
working through based on
Freudian’s psychoanalysis
of mourning and
melancholy
Second: Teo
Topic: Comparison of Scar
and Iago in terms of
manipulation
SIXTH PERIOD
Monday—26
Tuesday—27
Wednesday—28
Thursday—29
Friday—30
First:Hannah K.
Topic: Survival Maus vs
3096 Days
First: Clara Smith
Topic: Examining the
Alteratoins in the
Realatoinship between the
Major Characters due to
the hOlocuast and
differences in Perception
First: Forrest Rawls
Topic:
First: Poonam Patel
Topic: Analyzing various
motifs in Othello
First: Michaela Gay
Topic: Comparison of the
style of presentation of
Maus and Night in terms
of their style and how that
affects their impact on the
audience
Second: Kaitlyn Ham
Topic: PwB—how all of the
girls respond differently to
guilt
Second: Eliza Eligio
Topic: Communication or
lack of in all books
Second: Jacqueline
Saquibal
Topic: Foster’s elements in
Maus—Shakespeare,
fairytales, and Bible
Second: Zane Soued
Topic: How does the rules
of ________ in PwB and
Othello affected by the
time it was written
Second: Deja White
Topic: Analyzing the
various themes of guilt
within Maus and
comparing characters’
coping mechanisms
SEVENTH PERIOD
Monday—26
Tuesday—27
Wednesday—28
Thursday—29
Friday—30
First: Josh Klein
Topic: Father-son
relationship in Maus and
Dragonball Z
First: John Lara
Topic: Past and present
correlation in Maus
First: Joanna Deng
Topic: Nathan Price as an
anti-christ figure in the
PwB
First: Matea Molina
Topic: Techniques of
telling Holocuast topic
from 2nd generation Jew
and compare to V’s story
First: Johnathan Voyles
Topic: Religion leading to
conflict as seen in PwB and
Maus
Second: Legend Davis
Topic: How the past
effects the present PwB
and Maus
Second: Marvin Raspberry
Topic: Is Maus art or
literature
Second: Michael Cole
Topic: Sacrifice of
humanity and self in Maus
Second: David Berryman
Topic: How Anakin
Skywalker and Othello
both match the
characteristics of a tragic
hero.
Second: Abby and Caroline
Topic: Comparing the
sisters in the PwB with
Biblical character
AFTER SCHOOL
Monday—26
Tuesday—27
Wednesday—28
Thursday—29
Friday—30
First: Taylor Parkhurst
Art in Maus
First: Hannah Howard
Topic: Seven deadly sins in
Fullmetal Alchemist
Brotherhood and Othello
First: Alyson Tran
Topic: Richieu and Art as
symbols of Vladek before
and after the Holocaust
First: Elydia Eligio
Topic:
First: Cami Wilson
Topic: Depression use
Anja’s symtpoms ex.
Second: Molly Power
Topic: Symbols of Guilt in
Maus
Third: Rachel Gordon
Topic: Analyzing
correlations in Art’s and
Vladek’s story (both told
by Art( How Art may have
allowed his tragedies to
mimic his father’s
Second: Cassidy Rothfeder
Topic: Vladek as unreliable
narrator, analysis on the
faults in eye witness
accounts and drawing
from memory
Third: Noah Beeler
Topic: 4 Horsemen PwB
Second: Tam Tran
Topic: Compare Maus to
the Boy in the Stripped
Pajamas
Third: Abbey Barr
Topic: Guilt (Art)
Second: Alex Dampier
Topic: How does Art’s
family guilt and survivor
guilt change
Third: Luke Lajmi
Topic: PTSD and its effects
on family
relationships/family roles
and dynamic in PwB and
Maus
Jazmin and Jaimee
Topic: How does age, race,
and social position affect
the relationship of Othello
and Desdemona?
Second: Chandler
Stockamp
Topic: Comparison of
children and how the war
affected
____________culture
________
Third: William Nguyen
Topic:
Katelynn Munster:
Topic: Art of Rhetoric in
MAUS
*Seniors: Chris House and Alexis Knight—Feb 6