Matheny’s 12th IB HL LA:To the Lighthouse Journal Info, Reading Schedule, and Assignments
Journal Info
Your journals will encompass the following five elements for each section. Each journal will be 1 – 1 ½ pages long with each of the following clearly labeled.Annotating the text is also required for full credit for this novel only—use post-its if you have checked out a library copy of the novel.
- Characters: List the key characters who appear in the section, with the information available to you at this time – their role, relationships with others, and any other relevant information.
- Ideas, Techniques, Images, and Patterns:What idea, technique, image, or pattern stands out in this section? Quote the text and discuss. If it’s an image or an image pattern, consider the details of the image. Speculate about what you think its significance could be.
- Expression: What has Woolf expressed here – emotionally, psychologically, and artistically? What is the effect on the reader of what she is doing?
- Questions: What questions are you left with? What confuses you at this point?
- Think comparatively: What similarity or difference in: setting, character, theme, idea, structure, etc. (choose one) do you notice between this novel and Pride and Prejudice? What’s interesting about the similarity or difference?
Reading Schedule
Tuesday, 1/30: Finish Austen; critically read “Kew Gardens” for homework
Wednesday, 1/31: Discuss “Kew Gardens”
Thursday, 2/1: Introduction to Woolf and To The Lighthouse; Intro Context Jigsaw Research Assignment
Friday, 2/2:Library hour for Intro Context Jigsaw Research Assignment: Matheny is out for IOCs
Monday, 2/5: Present jigsaw research; The Window: Chapters 1-3 and pre-reading journal due
Tuesday, 2/6: Discuss The Window 1-3, cont’d; Freudian Reading of Woolf
Wednesday, 2/7:The Window: Chapters 4-6 and journal due
Thursday, 2/8: The Window: Chapters 7-9 and journal due (36-54)
Friday,2/9: The Window: Chapters 10-12 and journal due (54-71)
Monday, 2/12: The Window: Chapters 13-16 and journal due (70-82)
Tuesday, 2/13: The Window: Chapter17and journal due(82-110); cast dinner party
Wednesday, 2/14 and 15: Dinner Party in class
Friday, 2/16:The Window: Chapters 18-19 and journal due (112-124)
**Critically read “Time Passes” over Winter Break and complete one journal entry***
Monday, 2/26: Discuss “Time Passes”
Tuesday, 2/27:The Lighthouse: ch 1-3 (145-162) and journal due
Wednesday, 2/28: The Lighthouse: ch 4-6 (162-180) and journal due
Thursday, 3/1: The Lighthouse: ch 7- 10and journal due (180-191)
Friday, 3/2: The Lighthouse: ch 11-13 (191-209—finish the novel)
Monday and Tuesday, 3/5-6: Culminating Whole-Novel Socratic Seminar/Laptops for 10 Quotes
Wednesday, 3/7: Comparative Essay Writing
Thursday and Friday, 3/8-9: Written Culminating Assessment—Paper 2 Mock Exam (Culminating Assessment for P&P and TTL)
Additional Assignment for To the Lighthouse:Significant Quotations: 10 quotations from the novel that you believe are significant or that you just like, plus a brief explanation (2-3 sentences) of why it is significant or why you like it. Due 3/7 by 8:00 AM to turnitin.com