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Dear Diploma Candidates: If you are registered for all six IB courses and you are planning on registering as a full diploma candidate, you’ll need to write the ToK essay. Please browse these essay titles and begin to ask questions about which areas of knowledge and ways of knowing would be a good fit for […]

Greetings Seniors! Three weeks from today we will begin another exciting year at LBHS; however, this year you will be graduating high school and likely heading off to college. With that in mind, I would like you to consider taking time over the next three weeks to begin checking off items on your to do […]

As you approach writing your essay, it would likely benefit you to research your chosen Neruda poem. When was the poem written? What was the historical context and how did this shape Neruda’s approach and technique? What has been written about this poem already? In other words, are there academic papers which have already been […]

In order to help students further deepen their sense of context, after each interactive oral this IB literature course asks each student to write a short reflection in response to the following question: “How was your understanding of the cultural and the contextual considerations of Pablo Neruda’s poetry developed through the interactive oral presentations?” Your […]

IB Juniors, Many of you have asked about how to properly cite poetry, especially the line numbers. Well, these examples at Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab can help answer your questions. For more information about Neruda, his beliefs, and his poetry, read this in-depth interview from 1970! It’s very enlightening! Our Interactive Oral Presentations are […]

Notes on The Sorrow of War Think about your essay topic; read over my notes and select relevant quotes to support your ideas! See you tomorrow! Also, feel free to print or save this document for further reference. Sincerely, Mr. Coey

A score 3 Reflective Statement is available to review in the comments section of this post. Use the following questions to help you develop a Reflective Statement and please do not go over the word count: Because of the “Interactive Oral Presentations,” which concepts or ideas do you now understand? Select only one or two […]

Greetings IB Juniors! I sincerely hope you have had a restful spring holiday, and I imagine that you are now starting to think about returning to Luther Burbank High School. Again, I want to commend you for all of your hard work and your willingness to embrace these challenging novels and writing assignments. You are […]

Good morning! I’m writing to you from my hotel room on the 11th floor of the Hotel Kabuki, located in San Francisco’s Japantown. Last night, given our current reading of Murakami’s novel, I was curious to see if the hotel had a room 208. So, just for fun I went to the second floor and […]

Greetings! I’m writing from my hotel room in San Francisco, and I’m so pleased to see all of the great ideas and questions you have posed! Look for my reply to your comments. Today our focus is on the introduction and specifically the idea of “orienting the reader,” which means telling the reader what you […]