IB L&L HL | Metonymy

Slaughterhouse Five IOC Model – p. 149-151

By Mr. Hoke, on November 14th, 2012%

IOC Example – Slaughterhouse Five

Here is the modeled IOC example from class today, November 14, 2012. The outline is below:

Media Deconstruction Worksheet

By Mr. Hoke, on October 3rd, 2012%

Click here for the worksheet. Click here for the vocabulary sheet.

Language, Image, Editing, & Argument: A Quick Comparative Case Study

By Mr. Hoke, on September 14th, 2012%

Chuck Norris and his wife Gena recently published a video on their views of the 2012 election. Check it out for yourself, then answer the media deconstruction questions. Then , view the subsequent interview with Chuck Norris on Fox News. Again, answer the deconstruction questions for this video. Finally, answer the questions below.

Link . . . → Read More: Language, Image, Editing, & Argument: A Quick Comparative Case Study

IB LL – Recovering the Memory Hole

By Mr. Hoke, on August 28th, 2012%

Folks, if there is an overriding intellectual weakness of us all as humans, it is to treat everything that approaches us as novel, new, unique, a one-off event. Overcoming this requires drawing connections between events, ideas, people, artifacts, and so on. To wit, the work we are doing today, tomorrow, the next day on writing . . . → Read More: IB LL – Recovering the Memory Hole

AP Literature and IB Lit/Lang HL Yr 2 Summer Reading Activity

By Mr. Hoke, on May 30th, 2012%

Please follow this link for an introduction and link to the summer reading assignment documents for the 2012-2013 school year. AP Literature and Composition will read Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. IB Lang/Lit HL Year 2 will read Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Enjoy!

IB L&L: Oranges Notes – First Lecture

By Mr. Hoke, on May 8th, 2012%

Here are the notes from our first discussion of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. We’ll continue the discussion on Wednesday.

IB L&L: What Do You Not Know? A Reading…

By Mr. Hoke, on May 7th, 2012%

Check out this excellent examination of what it means to know, or not, what we know, or not. I’m open to any and all discussion of this!

IB L&L: May 02, 2012 – Media Deconstruction & Comparative Writing

By Mr. Hoke, on May 2nd, 2012%

Today in class you are to complete the following activities:

Watch and deconstruct this famous attack ad from the 1988 US presidential election. Use this version of our deconstruction worksheet and the language of persuasion document in Google docs to complete this. Feel free to work together. Share your individual deconstruction in a document with . . . → Read More: IB L&L: May 02, 2012 – Media Deconstruction & Comparative Writing

IB HL: Final Exam Review Sheet

By Mr. Hoke, on May 2nd, 2012%

Please see this link for your final exam review sheet. This document is also in the shared Handouts folder for unit 6. Please feel free to prepare as much as you’d like for this exam by preparing responses to the provided prompts based on the texts given.

IB L&L: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Discussion Thread

By Mr. Hoke, on April 30th, 2012%

Please read this post, follow the directions, and complete your journal before Wednesday, your responses to groupmates before Friday. Thanks!

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