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 * ** date ** || ** group ** || ** poem ** || ** commentary due ** || ** day off ** ||
 * 26 Nov || 1 || Disabled || 2 Dec || 30 Nov ||
 * 30 Nov || 2 || Disabled || 6 Dec || 2 Dec ||
 * 2 Dec || 3 || Counter Attack || 30 Nov || 6 Dec ||
 * 6 Dec || 4 || Counter Attack || 26 Nov || 26 Nov ||



**2010 A1 English Standard Level IOP Topics **


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- Tragic depiction of youth involved in war  (need to develop this more fully) || **
 * Name || Text || Topic ||
 * Valerie Yeung ||  ||   ||
 * Alex || Fences || The role of death in the play "Fences", personified and literal. ||
 * Amanda Robison || Fences || the influence of white people in Fences, and how it affects the characters in the play. ||
 * DaSol Lee || Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Significance of Bono as Troy's friend ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Diane Zhu || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The theme of 'we hurt the ones who love us, and love the ones who hurt us' in FENCES ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Dong Hyeok Han || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">-significance of fences in the Fences ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Gilbert Ye || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The significance and purpose of alcohol and Taylor's (the bar) to Troy in Fences. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">He Ra Kang || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The significance of Gabriel's presence as a source of guilt for Troy. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Isabel Perrin || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">August Wilson highlights the impact that one generation's hopes and dreams, and accomplishments and failures have on the next generation <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Joanna || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || The role of music in emphasizing/portraying the playwright's messages throughout the play. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">John Wong || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">- Reality versus self-created illusions as characters' differing perspectives taken towards living their lives in //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences //. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Jonathan || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || The inability of characters to let go of the past. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Kevin Wang || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The incorporation of sport references and terms to portray and depict relationships within Fences ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Lindsay || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || To what extent do stage directions portray the characters in Fences? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Max || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || How does the use of coping techniques by Troy, Rose and Lyons allow the reader to understand the pressures the family faced in society? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Michael Xie || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The extent of Rose and Troy Maxson being the mouthpieces for August Wilson. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Natalie Wong || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The comparison between how Troy treats Lyons and how he treats Cory and how it represents the different stages of Troy's life. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">NiNi || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Troy’s opinions of a man’s responsibilities affect his familial relationships in a negative way. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Sean Lin || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat is representative of dissatisfaction and annoyance, but also representative of passion. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">SeoHyun Bae || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Religious imagery in Owen poetry. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Shavonne Ravlich || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The influence Alberta has on the Maxson family although ironically she is never present onstage. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Victor M Liu || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || Rupert Brooke – progression of ideas in the 5 war sonnets. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Wendy Yu || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">What type of character Troy would most suitably be categorized as (tragic figure, hero, villain, or a combination). ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Wes || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The characters’ interactions with the set and props teach the audience about their personalities. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Won Kyu || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The significance of The Devil in Troy's character and relationships ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Shang Loh || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || The role of naming of major characters in establishing aspects of society in Fences. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Chris Ren || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || Troy purposefully and inadvertently passes on his life experiences and his behaviors to his family, for better and for worse, causing his family to accept fates similar to Troy’s in Fences ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Brandon Guo || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fences || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Lying in Fences. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Jason || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat & Dust || <span style="background: lime; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The ending of the novel demonstrates the consequences the characters face because of their actions. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Robert Lee || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">- <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The car as a reflection of the relationship statuses between Olivia, Douglas, Harry and the Nawab as the novel progresses ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Henry Fong || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">T <span style="background: lime; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">o what extent are the housewives more 'free' after the death or absence of their husbands displayed in Heat and Dust and Fences?" (Ritu, Maji, Rose,) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Chris Hwa || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The contrast between Harry and Chid as to the setting of India's influence towards each character in different time periods. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Daphne Lam || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The function of the graveyard scenes between Douglas and Olivia in revealing the nature of their relationship. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Jerry Wang || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The effect of cultural and status restraints upon women in India (specifically Ritu, Inder Lal's mother, and Olivia) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Kathy Summers || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The significance of keeping and not keeping the baby in Heat and Dust. (Olivia and Anne) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Kevin || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || How is manipulation present and how does it affect the lives of the characters? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Min Ho || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Gulim','sans-serif';">How is fear and desperation created in Owen and Sassoon’s poetry? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Ricky || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The constant switching between time periods in the narration in order to emphasize the parallelism between events from the two eras. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Riowena Seah || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The extent to which the piano is a disconnection for Olivia from India as the novel's plot progresses. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">William Wang || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Heat and Dust || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The irony of how Olivia feels more at home with the Nawab and the rest of the Indian community instead of the English community. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Jocelyn Ng || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Cameron Frayne || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || Nature imagery in Owen poetry ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Janita Zhang || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">- A comparison between the different approaches to the subject of war explored through the compositional techniques of Rupert Brooke ("The Soldier") and Wilfred Owen ("Dulce et Decorum Est"). ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Simon Wu || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Soldiers who have fought in war ended up wounded; their glorious moments were only meant to be momentarily remembered by people. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Jacques Van Anh || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The irony of expected rewards in ‘The Soldier’, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and ‘Does it Matter’? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Phillip Huang || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || <span style="background: lime; color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Rupert Brooke's and Wilfred Owen's attitudes towards death in battle in //<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">V. The Soldier // and //<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Anthem for Doomed Youth //, respectively ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Britain Ross || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The contrast in the reception of the soldiers when they left for war and returned from war, despite the soldiers returning ‘victorious’. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Chase || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || "The way death is portrayed in the poems "III. The Dead" by Rupert Brooke and "Suicide in the Trenches" by Siegfried Sassoon represents the two extremes as to how soldiers felt about the war." ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Jesse || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || <span style="background: lime; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The use of similar literary features to convey different purposes in Wilfred Owen's various poems. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Joon Young || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || <span style="background: lime; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Siegfried Sassoon - Does it Matter?, Base Details
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Krystal || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Comparing the contrasting the criticism of war evident in both Owen and Sassoon's works (the two poets have different styles of criticism) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Maryanne Cheah || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || The role of religious imagery in Owen’s “Futility” and Brooke’s “Peace” ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Michael Ren || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The large contrast of the role of the Major and that of the soldier in Siegfried Sasson's two poems "Base Details" and "Counter- Attack". ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Oliver Bech || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The ways in which Rupert Brooke portrays the glory and honor of being a soldier in the poems "I. Peace" and "II. Safety". ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Sarah Beckley || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">How Owen’s “The Send Off” and Brooke’s “The Soldier” reflect the people’s willingness to enter the war and their feelings about fighting for their country ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Suzy Kim || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Duality in Sassoon's poetry ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Victor J || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || <span style="background: lime; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Comparison between Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Siegried Sassoon's "Suicide in the Trenches” to portray the poets’ lamentation for the loss of youth. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Vincent Huang || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">War Poetry || <span style="background: lime; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Discussion about the purpose and significant of the theme of loss in Owen's "Disabled" and how society amplifies the extent of loss through ignorance. ||