Claire+Wilson's+HL+Syllabus

Name: Claire WILSON

Higher Level

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// Please include the title, author and genre of __all__ texts. //

// Please additionally include the period and place of each __English__ text. //

__ PART 1: World Literature __

//(World Literature Assignments 1 & 2: 20%) [Theme: love, betrayal, power]//

1. (PWL- WLIT) Novel – Mirall trencat //by Merce Rodoreda// (1974, Spain) Adding to my reading list. Let me know how it goes. 2. (PWL- WLIT) Novel – Madame Bovary //by Gustave Flaubert// (1857, Europe) 3. (PWL- WLIT) Drama – The Visit //by Friedrich Durrenmatt// (1956, Switzerland)

__ PART 2: Detailed Study __

**//(Individual Oral Commentary 15%)//** 1. PBL – Autobiography – Martin Luther King (20 Century) 2.4 2. PBL – Poetry – Collection of Poetry by //Ted Hughes// (20 Century) 2.2 ﻿ ﻿and Collection of Poetry by //Eavan Boland// (20 Century). 3. PBL – Prose Fiction - Wuthering Heights //by// //Emily Bronte// (19 Century Victorian) 2.3 4. PBL – Drama - Macbeth //by William Shakespeare// (16/17 Century Elizabethan)

__ PART 3: Groups of Works __

//(Paper 2 essay 25%)//

1. PBL - Drama - The Rover //by Aphra Behn//: Drama (Restoration) 3.1 2.PBL - Drama - The Picture of Dorian Gray //by Oscar Wilde//: (19 Century Victorian) 3.1 3. PBL - Drama - Pygmalion //by G.B. Shaw//: (20 Century) 3.1 4. (WLIT* //PWL// or elsewhere) Drama - Tea House //by Lao She// (Chinese)

__ PART 4: School’s Free Choice __

//(Individual Oral Presentation 15%) [Theme – Women in Society]//

1. Prose – Tess of the D’Urbervilles by //Thomas Hardy// (19 Century Victorian) 2. Prose - Short Story - The Yellow Wallpaper //by Charlotte Perkins Gilman// (1892) 3. Poetry - Collection of Poetry on Women (Various) ﻿Okay. Apparently some flexibility with the rubric, but not what I'd do necessarily. 4. (WLIT* //PWL// or elsewhere) Wild Sargasso Sea //by Jean Rhys//: (20 Century Modern) *Or a book originally written in English but from an author’s ‘place’ which appears nowhere else on the syllabus.

OVERALL

Four genres? Y/N; Three periods? Y/N; Two places? Y/N ﻿   Just a few places that need tweaking. Looks like a fun,educational programme! (Linda)