5th year A and B: New Assignments for JULY 2009

Dear all

I am very apologetic for my delay in contacting you. Here are your assignments for this first week in July.

ONLY 5th A STUDENTS: you must do the IB READING COMPREHENSION PAPER that I gave you on Thursday when we last met. Please, send me the answers stating which TEXT (A-B-C or D) you are dealing with, and the number of the question. Notice that in the case of Text D you must write an answer to the text.
As I told you before, do this CONSCIENTIOUSLY since it will be for your own benefit when it comes to sitting for your IB MOCK EXAMS. This assignment must be submitted on Friday, July 10th. Those who were absent should contact me and I will try to scan the text and send it to you by email.


ONLY 5th B STUDENTS: you must finish off the IB READING COMPREHENSION PAPER which we began in class last Thursday. Do this CONSCIENTIOUSLY since it will be for your own benefit when it comes to sitting for your IB MOCK EXAMS. This assignment must be submitted on Friday, July 10th. Those who were absent should contact me and I will try to scan the text and send it to you by email.

BOTH 5th A and B STUDENTS: As regards LITERARY TEXT OPTIONS, I would like you to carry on reading City of Glass and move on into chapters 7, 8 and 9. As we did before, I want you to select TWO quotes from each chapter and analyse them following the aspects presented below:

1) Duplications and mirror images.
2) Identity: being Paul Auster, Daniel Quinn and Max Work.
3) Walking as MINDLESSNESS and as entering other consciousnesses.
4) The burden of CONSCIOUSNESS (i.e. the burden of being oneself. In this case, the burden of being Daniel Quinn).
5) The Tower of Babel: following Stillman around New York. Is the Peter Stillman that Quinn/Auster is following the right one? And if he is not, why does Quinn/Auster keep following him? How does Quinn benefit from having this case?
6) The three interviews with Peter Stillman.
7) Stillman’s language project and the reason why he came to New York.

This assignment must be submitted on Monday, July 13th. Once we meet again, we will go back to these chapters to clear up doubts and share ideas.
I will be contacting you soon with some further tasks for the next few days.

Stay healthy and strong on the inside.
Regards

Daniel Ferreyra