Submitting your Written Assignment
Ms. Wiandt has created a Google Classroom for you to upload an electronic copy of your essay.
Ms. Wiandt has created a Google Classroom for you to upload an electronic copy of your essay.
- Please go to Google Classroom with your apps4pps.net account
- sign in to classroom 8cf9b8
- follow the instructions
W.A. due the week of January 4th
Tuesday, January 5th. Final day for polishing and printing and submitting via Turnitin.
Second period = lab 266 Third period = library lab We will meet in the classroom first then migrate to the labs. On Thursday you will turn in a HARD COPY of your documents to me in class. What you are turning in:
By 9pm on Wednesday, you will submit the electronic version via Turnitin. Note. The reflective statement and essay will need to be in one document to submit. IT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SUBMIT TWO DOCUMENTS! |
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Evaluation Rubric for Written Assignment for THIS CLASS at CHS. See right for detailed description.
Three skills are being evaluated: Skill 4 = cultural and contextual considerations Skill 2 = use of evidence and interpretation Skill 3 = recognition of style's impact on meaning |
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it's a bird. it's a plane. it's a whole mess-a help for your essay.
70 Useful Sentences for Academic Writing
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Noticing a Writer's Style
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Tone: Words to Describe
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Embedding Text Evidence
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Analyzing quotes and text as evidence
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Transitional Words and Phrases
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MLA Rules for Citations and Text Evidence
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Help, advice, and tips for writing the essay
From the official IB page. Check out "stage 3: developing a topic"
IB survival ... from students to other students Writing a literary analysis paper from Germanna Community College Tips for literary analysis from Sierra College More advice on tips and themes from Jack Milgram |
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Language A: Literature HL Written Assignments 25% of overall grade
Students produce an analytical essay with reflective statement based on one work (novel) studied in Part One of the course: Texts in Translation. The goal of the process is to produce an analytical, literary essay on a topic generated by the student and developed from one of the pieces of supervised writing.
Reflective statement 300-400 words in length
Essay: 1200-1500 worlds in length
Works studied this year in Part One [2015-16]:
· One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
· Kitchen by Banana Yamomoto
· The Stranger by Albert Camus
There are five criteria used to assess students’ work.
Following each criterion is the descriptor used by IB examiners to define “mastering” that aspect.
A. Fulfilling the requirement of the reflective statement: to what extent does the student show how their understanding of cultural and contextual elements was developed through the interactive oral? (3 marks)
B. Knowledge and understanding: how effectively has the student used the topic and the essay to show knowledge and understanding of the chosen work? (6 marks)
C. Appreciation of the writer’s choices: to what extent does the student appreciate how the writer’s choices of language, structure, technique and style shape meaning? (6 marks)
D. Organization and development: how effectively have the ideas been organized, and how well are references to the works integrated into the development of ideas? (5 marks)
E. Language: how clear, varied and accurate is the language? How appropriate is the choice of register, style and terminology? [Register, in this context, refers to the student’s use of elements such as vocabulary, tone, sentence structure and terminology appropriate to the task] (5 marks)
Students produce an analytical essay with reflective statement based on one work (novel) studied in Part One of the course: Texts in Translation. The goal of the process is to produce an analytical, literary essay on a topic generated by the student and developed from one of the pieces of supervised writing.
Reflective statement 300-400 words in length
Essay: 1200-1500 worlds in length
Works studied this year in Part One [2015-16]:
· One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
· Kitchen by Banana Yamomoto
· The Stranger by Albert Camus
There are five criteria used to assess students’ work.
Following each criterion is the descriptor used by IB examiners to define “mastering” that aspect.
A. Fulfilling the requirement of the reflective statement: to what extent does the student show how their understanding of cultural and contextual elements was developed through the interactive oral? (3 marks)
- Reflection on the interactive oral shows development of the student’s understanding of cultural and contextual elements.
B. Knowledge and understanding: how effectively has the student used the topic and the essay to show knowledge and understanding of the chosen work? (6 marks)
- The essay shows detailed knowledge and understanding of, and perceptive insight into, the work used for the assignment.
C. Appreciation of the writer’s choices: to what extent does the student appreciate how the writer’s choices of language, structure, technique and style shape meaning? (6 marks)
- There is excellent appreciation of the ways in which language, structure, technique and style shape meaning.
D. Organization and development: how effectively have the ideas been organized, and how well are references to the works integrated into the development of ideas? (5 marks)
- Ideas are persuasively organized and developed, with effectively integrated examples from the works used.
E. Language: how clear, varied and accurate is the language? How appropriate is the choice of register, style and terminology? [Register, in this context, refers to the student’s use of elements such as vocabulary, tone, sentence structure and terminology appropriate to the task] (5 marks)
- Language is very clear, effective, carefully chosen and precise, with a high degree of accuracy in grammar, vocabulary and sentence construction; register and style are effective and appropriate to the task.
Format for turning in your essay to Ms. Hughes
Double spaced with a conventional font (Calibri, Times New Roman). One inch (or 1.25 left and right) margins.
Double spaced with a conventional font (Calibri, Times New Roman). One inch (or 1.25 left and right) margins.
- Top page = name, period, word count in upper right corner not double spaced
- Title, followed by the essay, followed by the work(s) cited in MLA format. Don't forget translator's name.
- Example: Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Translated by Matthew Ward. New York: Vintage International, 1989. Print.