some reminders...
Your Reflective Statement for Perfume will be composed at home and submitted in class on Thursday, May 9 as a printed copy with the following title:
your name
Perfume Reflective Statement
IB English
Date
WORD COUNT (remember, this must be between 300-400)
If it is not turned in Thursday you will need to come to Office Hours Friday, May 10 from 2:30-3:30.
I will also ask you to create a PDF of each of your Reflective Statements without your name in the text (just on the file label) but with the word count at the end. These will be kept for Mrs. Meade. You can submit to the following folders:
Remember that the reflective statement is essentially part of the EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT (marked by IB examiners). It gets attached to the WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT about 1 of the 3 "Works in Translation" you have studied this year.
What is the Reflective Statement?
This is a typed piece of prose between 300 - 400 words (word count is important, as you are docked 1 point if it goes over 400 words). It's your chance to reflect on the insights you gained from the Interactive Orals (for Perfume, the games and one-pagers). the BIG QUESTION:
"How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations fo the work developed through the Interactive Oral?"
Think of this as a "before and after" experiment - what do you know and understand NOW that you did not understand prior to the Interactive Oral?
You might want to think about the following:
* how did finding out about the author's background or background of the work help you get more out of it?
* what cultural and historical elements helped shape the book? In what ways do time and place matter to this work?
*what was easy to understand and what was difficult in relation to social and cultural context issues?
*what connections and/ or conflicts did you find between issues in this work and your own cultural experience (or other works you've read or other topics studied)?
*what aspects of technique / literary devices were interesting to you and why?
How is the Reflective Statement Assessed and What Happens to It?
The typed statement is held on file until you decide which reflective statement you will use to support your Written Assignment (so if you do the latter on Perfume, then the Kokoro one will NOT be submitted).
The reflective statements is awarded a mark out of 3 using assessment criterion A, called "Fulfilling the Requirements for the reflective statement".
The descriptors vary from "superficial development of a student's understanding of cultural and contextual elements" (1), to "some development" (2), to "shows development" (3)
TIPS!
1. Review your notes (these include the 1 pagers from all groups located HERE)
2. Remember to show before and after change in your understanding.
3. You can write in first person
4. This is NOT based on research, but rather on your experience with the I.O.
5. Count words and write the word count on the cover page. Print your reflective statement and submit by the end of class.