Thursday 18 December 2014

IB ENGLISH CHRISTMAS READING & WORK

Over the Christmas holiday you should read Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. We will be studying in class the following stories:

The Snow Child
The Bloody Chamber
The Tiger's Bride
The Eal-King
The Company of Wolves

In pairs you will give brief presentations on the following stories:

The Courtship of Mr. Lyon
Puss-in-Boots
The Lady of the House of Love
The Werewolf
Wolf-Alice

And you should also read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.


Remember that we read literature as students not as consumers.

Therefore as you read you must make notes and annotate the texts studied. You should consider making notes on some or all of the following topics:

  • Identify important plot developments
  • Note down the structure in the plot
  • Comment on the narrative voice - who is speaking? What attitude do they have to main characters, the main events and the narrative perspective?
  • What are the main themes in the story?
  • Note the setting of the stories and the function of the settings
  • Comment on writing techniques and the effect on the reader.