IOP What was your IOP topic?

[Gail.]

Mine was last week, titled 'A Letter Never Meant To Be Sent' depicting the self deprecation, guilt and frustration all three of Tom, from The Glass Menagerie, Hally, from Master Harold and the Boys, and Biff, from Death of a Salesman, experience after a few years pass, in which they are too prideful to apologize until they reach such a point at which they can no longer face their families or believe they are even worthy of forgiveness.

By the way it is a poem, though it is not segmented into each one's personal point of view, but simply flowing in a way where it would fit to all three situations...

[Saransh]

Mine was on Narcissus and Goldmund. I talked about characterization of Goldy

[Austin Glau]

I haven't done it yet, but I am doing it on "Their eyes were watching god"

[sweetnsimple786]

Mine was on the Nathan Price from The Poisonwood Bible & Velutha's father from The God of Small Things and I discussed how their past and their culture affected their actions so we shouldn't hate them as characters without thinking about their backgrounds. This was done back in Dec '08. Man I love the IOP process =)

[Charizard]

Gah, mine was on The Government Inspector and I did badly on it, which worries me since it's supposed to be 30% of the final IB grade or something . I wonder if it's possible to redo it if I dropped to SL or something...

[DJ CAS]

Social Standing in Of Mice and Men and The Great Gatsby.

[hannah.mb]

Mine was Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys interview with main character ( Antoinette Cosway)

Wow, finally found someone who's reading this book for IB!

I did mine on this too, I presented about the significance of the book's title. What other titles did Jean Rhys consider using, how the mythical character of the Sargasso Sea reflects the tones of mysticism in the novel, how the vastness of the Sargasso Sea is symbolic of Antoinette's isolation from England, etc. I got a pretty good mark, and it was interesting to talk about.

Ok, now I've found someone on here who reads WSS too!!! Btw I started a new topic about it in the Literature forum. idk, is it a common book to study in IB?

[hannah.mb]

btw I did my IOP for English on Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights: comparing the relationships between 1) Jane and Rochester (Jane Eyre) and 2) Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights).

I loved preparing it, idk, just really interesting books i guess.

[Berns099]

My question was: "How do Sylvia Plath's poems "Medusa" and "Cut" present a rejection of femininity?"

I got a 30/30!!! (First 30/30 IOP ever at my school! (IB offered since 1998))

[Mys]

Ah.

My IOP was quite entertaining apparently. I had presented it two weeks ago and people are still talking about it. I ended up with a 30/30. I roleplayed death and explained how the deaths within the novels A Tale of Two Cities by Charles ****ens, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Antigone by Sophocles, and The Wars by Timothy Findlay were not as heroic as they may have been portrayed. My character as death remained cocky, arrogant, and insulting to the human race throughout the IOP and pretty much insulted every aspect of the human psyche.

Sorry if it sounds like I am bragging, I really mean not to !

[Meraki]

I did an oral exposé--a commentary on a passage from All the King's Men.

Edited August 25, 2010 by Meraki

[JoeG]

My topic was Hypocrisy in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

I got a 26/30 on it. The reason for this was that I spoke VERY quickly.

[rocking bych]

mine was on theme of partiton in train to pakistan, tamas and final solutions..!! i did it on all 3 texts..!!

[offfmcq]

The Egyptian/Biblical allusions in The Stone Angel.

Worst book ever >.>

Mines next week. So nervous.

[Sonneteer_Trombonist]

Mine was themes in Oedipus Rex. I dressed up as Tiresias the blind prophet and wrote it as a script. It was sort of fun that way, as opposed to writing an essay and reading it out loud.

[Shasha]

Comparing Janine of Handmaid's Tale to Curly's wife in Of Mice and Men. My teacher said I got a seven

[ibmonkey]

im doing a historical criticism approash to one flew over the cuckoos nest,. mine is one thursday im the first kid in my school to ever do the IOP, im so nervous

[Austin Glau]

Ok i finished the IOP like a few weeks ago, i forget about this thread :')

I did my IOP on the use of violence in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and what Hurston's message is pertaining to violence. I got a pretty good score =)

[Chitra K.]

I can see that not many people used Angela Carter's stories for their IOP ( or at all).

My topic was " How does Carter present virginity in her stories?"

[Tilia]

I'm doing mine next week... I'm not even going to lie, I'm really nervous for it.

But my topic is on irony found in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

Sounds interesting. It's a fascinating novel.

You don't have to be nervous, just stay cool and try not to talk to fast, unless you risk going over time.