The purpose of this blog is to give our IB students an awareness of the long, wide, and diverse history of literature from England and America. Students were divided into small groups, and each group had to do research on a time period of literary history. Following this research, the group was responsible for giving an oral presentation to share their findings with the rest of the class, as well as write the blog entries which you see here (below). Students also had to read a work written during 'their' time period and write a literary essay on some aspect of the text.
There were several motivations for presenting in the form of a blog.
1. We had also been discussing textual analysis during the course, and our primary focus was on media texts. As IB students studying English A: language and literature must also study language in mass communication as part of the course, it was thought that actually writing such a text would increase their awareness of all the facets that go into writing a blog entry.
2. In the past, students made posters for the classroom which outlined the major aspects of each time period, but as those posters are quite limited in their scope (i.e. they are generally not accessible outside the classroom), I wanted to make a resource which will travel with the students throughout their IB years and beyond.
We hope you enjoy our blog!
Anna Martikainen (teacher)
+ the students of 13IB (Ressun lukio, Helsinki, Finland)
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