Oral+Presentations

Orals comprise 30% of your eventual overall IB score. Only the Oral PRESENTATION will be done this year. The IB component scores, based on the following rubric, will be recorded and left with next year's teachers, so that they can be combined with next year's oral commentary marks. The overall marks for the presentation, however, will be converted and awarded to you as an ISB mark. Likewise, the teacher's comments will be delivered to you individually via Pinnacle.

This page is a respository for information about this particular aspect of Semester 1.

Feel free to add your own questions or post anything you believe might be helpful to the rest of us.

IB rubric (for both ORAL PRESENTATIONS and ORAL COMMENTARIES):

Here is the basic signup schedule. Look over your own calendar and obligations, etc. Sign up for a time that is optimal for your best performance -- all things considered. If you sign up for an October presentation, you must present on Jhabvala, Larkin, or Cope. Later presentations may be about Coetzee or Bowles, too. (To sign up here, Edit this page, add in your name and the author's name--subject-topic, too, if you're ready, and then Save the page. The table's boxes will stretch to accommodate your text.) PLEASE...if you sign up here, be __serious__ and do what you can to stick to the date/author/topic.) Julie Leong || Jhabvala--J's Role as In-Betweener, English/Indian Cultural Elements || Melissa Powers || Larkin "Arundel Tomb" & "Reference Back" || Dolf Bekink || Cope -- Several works involving pastiche/parody Larkin -- "A Study of Reading Habits" and role of language choices/register || Sophie Zhang || Larkin -- "Church Going" and "Ambulances" || Renee Zhang || Cope--Parody of Khayyam "Strugnell's Rubaiyat" || Steph Zhan || Jhabvala--Short story or Beggars?? || Emma Monaghan || Bowles -- short story by Bowles, connections to __Sheltering Sky__(?) || Catalina Phan || Cope || Cope -- Women "Chasing" Men in C's poetry -- "Bloody Men," etal || Connie Li || Coetzee -- Narrative aspects of C's persuasive writing || Benedetta Bambagioni || Bowles -- Uncomfortable situations in __SS__ || Gene Quillin || Bowles--Women and East vs. West in __Sheltering Sky__ || Rena Minegishi || Bowles --Isolation in __SS__ ||
 * Date || Day || Name || Topic ||
 * 10/13 || 1 ||
 * 10/15 || 3 ||  ||   ||
 * 10/19 || 5 ||
 * 10/21 || 1 || Chris Nobre
 * 10/23 || 3 ||
 * 10/27 || 5 ||
 * 10/29 || 1 ||
 * 11/2 || 3 ||
 * 11/4 || 5 ||
 * 11/6 || 1 || Kat Lee ||
 * 11/10 || 3 ||
 * 11/12 || 5 || Kat Tsen || Cope ||
 * 11/16 || 1 || Andrea Miranda || Bowles- Tourists and travelers in __Sheltering Sky__ ||
 * 11/20 || 5 ||
 * 11/20 || 5 || Alice Duffy || Bowles -- Music in __SS__ ||
 * 11/24 || 1 || Murphy McAnulty || Bowles -- role of escape in sheltering sky ||
 * 11/30 || 5 ||
 * 11/30 || 5 ||