THE THINGS THEY CARRIED REFLECTION LEARNER PORTFOLIO INFO
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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED REFLECTION & LEARNER PORTFOLIO INFO FOR NEXT YEAR
IB LANGUAGE & LITERATURE HL: THE LEARNER PORTFOLIO (I’M GIVING YOU A HEADS UP ON WHAT THIS IS BEFORE YOU HEAD INTO SENIOR YEAR, WHERE YOUR SENIOR TEACHERS WILL BE DOING THIS WITH YOU)
PURPOSE OF THE PORTFOLIO (AGAIN…YOU WILL DO THIS NEXT YEAR, NOT THIS YEAR) • TO HELP YOU ORGANIZE YOUR LEARNING MATERIALS THIS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR • TO REFLECT ON YOURSELF AS A LEARNER TO TRACK YOUR GROWTH & PROGRESS • TO HELP PREPARE YOU FOR YOUR IB ASSESSMENTS (THE IO IN PARTICULAR & YOUR PAPER 1 & 2) • TO KEEP TRACK OF TEXTS YOU’VE STUDIED AND THEIR CONNECTIONS TO IB GLOBAL ISSUES WORLDWIDE.
WHAT GOES IN THE PORTFOLIO? • CLASS NOTES (YOUR JOURNALS FROM THIS YEAR WITH ALL YOUR NOTES) • PAST WRITTEN EXAMS WITH FEEDBACK AND ASSIGNMENTS • REFLECTION ASSIGNMENTS THAT CONNECT YOUR LEARNING AND TEXTS STUDIED IN CLASS TO GLOBAL ISSUES • ANY EXCERPTS FROM TEXTS (BOTH LANG & LIT) THAT
WHAT IS THE FORMAT OF THE PORTFOLIO? TYPICALLY, YOU HAVE CHOICE! • YOU CAN EITHER KEEP EVERYTHING DIGITALLY ONLINE (GOOGLE DRIVE, ETC. ) OR YOU CAN KEEP EVERYTHING IN A BINDER, HARD COPY. • YOU CAN ALSO DO A MIX OF BOTH- KEEP A BINDER OF YOUR NOTES & EXAMS AND AN E-COPY OF YOUR REFLECTIONS AND GLOBAL ISSUES CONNECTIONS. • NOTE: YOUR SENIOR TEACHER MAY DECIDE ON ONE PARTICULAR FORMAT, BUT THIS IS MEANT TO GIVE YOU A
WHAT ARE THE IB GLOBAL ISSUES? • NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL BE LOOKING MORE CLOSELY AT GLOBAL ISSUES THAT RELATE TO TEXTS YOU’VE STUDIED IN CLASS AS YOU ORGANIZE YOUR IA. • THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING IB GLOBAL ISSUES AND WHICH TEXTS THAT WE HAVE STUDIED THIS YEAR WOULD WORK WELL WITH THEM: • FEMININITY • MASCULINITY • BEAUTY • RACISM • COLONIALISM • IMMIGRATION • WAR • PROTEST • POLITICS
REFLECTION #3: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED • HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT THE THINGS THEY CARRIED? WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE VALUE OF READING THIS TEXT IN SCHOOL? • WHICH GLOBAL ISSUE(S) CONNECT BEST TO THE THINGS THEY CARRIED? WHY? WHAT ARE THE CONNECTIONS? • WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST TAKEAWAY FROM READING THE THINGS THEY CARRIED? WHY?
