Mentor Interview – District Curriculum Development Milwaukee Public Schools is the largest school district in Wisconsin. It serves over 87‚000 students and employs over 6‚000 teachers in over 200 schools. I had the privilege of speaking directly with Tina Flood‚ the Interim Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction for MPS regarding curriculum development processes in the district. Each department has their own curriculum specialist that is in charge of curriculum development. That
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man and a woman. Henrik Ibsen’s drama‚ A Doll House‚ illustrates the ups and downs between a husband that is focused on society’s patriarchy thoughts‚ and a wife that is fed up with playing the role society and her husband‚ have set. Furthermore‚ Ibsen emphasizes the point that much of how society is run‚ even in today’s world‚ is based upon a strong masculine influence; females are still viewed somewhat considered inferior today. Despite this drama being written in the late 1800’s‚ the play holds
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GHOSTS 1882 Henrik Ibsen HENRIK IBSEN Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright‚ theatre director‚ and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. SET TING All of the action we see happens in the same place. It’s a big garden-room with three doors leading upstairs‚ to the kitchen‚ and to the garden. Furniture-wise‚
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In this very popular drama from the playwright Henrik Ibsen‚ Mrs. Linde and Krogstad make an important contribution to the drama as the subplot of the play “ A doll’s house “. The playwright’s intent of this play was to dramatize Victorian society and it is clear that without these characters help‚ the main characters would have probably remained stagnant. Nora would have most likely‚ never would have come to a self-realization of her own lost identity without these subplot characters. Krogstad
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IB English HL World Lit Titles 1: A Comparison of Helmer’s and Mr. Samsa’s Dominance over Nora and Gregor 2: A Comparison of How Frank McCourt and Euripedes Use the Deaths of Children as an Element of Pathos in their Works 1: A Comparison of Minor Characters: Buinovsky in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Dr. Rank in A Doll’s House 2: A Comparison of the Economic Dependence of the Samsa Family in The Metamorphosis and the McCourt Family in Angela’s Ashes 1: A Comparative
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Our lives are build out of experiences. Depending on where we live‚ what we are going through‚ or our state of mind‚ we build our personal lives by making some concessions and adjustments in order to cope with others. In the play GHOST by Henrik Ibsen‚ Mrs. Alving and Pastor Manders are two characters whose stories differ because of secrets‚ misunderstandings‚ and masquerade. I. Mrs. Alving’s life is full of unbelievable secrets. A. She is the widow of Captain Alving. B. Mrs. Alving’s confession
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lifestyle is treated in Wilde’s version in contrast with Self’s explicit‚ open treatment of the same issue; the way in which Self has chosen to place more emphasis than Wilde on the 16 year time-frame in which the narrative takes place and Self’s addition of an epilogue. I will reference Koen Van Cauwenberge (The Ambivalence in Oscar Wilde ’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and its relation to Postmodernism)‚ picking out his point about the gay stereotype only really coming into existence after Wilde’s
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Oscar Wilde was an author‚ poet‚ and playwright in late Victorian England. Wilde was known for his wit and exuberant style. His unconventional writing is what drew many to his work‚ and many of his plays were well received. He spent the last three years of his life in exile after being imprisoned for “gross indecency”‚ and died in Paris‚ France from Meningitis at the age of 46. Among his last work before his death is The Importance of Being Earnest‚ a play in which Oscar Wilde delves into different
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No individual has the perfect life and while some people have long given up trying to lead the perfect life‚ others such as Regina Engstrom and Helen Alving in Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen‚ stay in pursuit of the perfect life and have their own individual visions of what they believe to be the ideal life based on their personal experiences and desires. Helen Alving uses the return of her son as well as worldly‚ unconventional forms of literature in order to form beliefs of what she views to be the perfect
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OSCAR WILDE - Biography Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright‚ novelist‚ poet‚ and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays‚ one novel‚ a number of poems‚ short stories‚ and essays. He was born on October the 16th‚ 1894 in Dublin to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. Oscar ’s mother‚ Lady Jane Francesca Wilde was a successful poet and journalist also (Gregory Brdnik 2012). Oscar had an elder brother‚ Willie‚ and a
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