2. The Second Night

• Engels
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Goals for today 

The Second Night - comprehension 

Analogy and the author's style

Close extract analysis 

Infographics 

Assessment guide IBO 

" All work submitted to the IB for moderation or assessment must be authenticated by a teacher, and must not include any known instances of suspected or confirmed academic misconduct. Each student must confirm that the work is his or her authentic work. [...] Authenticity may be checked by discussion with the student on the content of the work, and scrutiny of one or more of the following. 

- the student's initial proposal 

- the usual quality of the student's work 

The same material cannot be submitted to meet the requirements of both the internal assessment and the extended essay. The works used in the internal assessment must be different from those used in other assessment components."

p. 54 - 55 Language: literature guide IBO publications 

How is this image relevant to the reading you have done? 

Write your answer in your exercise book.

The Second Night

1. What do we get to know about the healthcare system in India? 
   
2. Why does Kishan’s marriage not have negative effects on Balram’s family?
   
3. Which strategies does Balram use to get valuable information and how does he educate himself?
   
4. What is Balram’s new job and how did he manage to make this career change?
   
5. What do we get to know about Dhanbad’s red light district? 
   
6. How has the Buffalo made sure that no one will threaten his power and family ever again?
   

Goals for today 

Silent reading 

HLE individual meetings 

Recording your oral and timing 

The Second Night - comprehension 

Analogy and the author's style

Close extract analysis 

The Second Night

1. List at least three examples of poverty, segregation or dehumanisation that can be found in this chapter.
2. Discuss the scene where Balram goes home to see his family and the decisions he takes after the visit. 
3. Find the reference in this chapter to the poet Iqbal's work. In what way is this poem relevant for Balram? 
4. Which scene underlines Ashok’s naivety when it comes to his understanding of Balram?

The Second Night

1. Read the extract given to you. 
   
2. Discuss the questions with your partner. 
   
3. Write your answers in your exercise book. 
   

The Second Night

1. What is the analogy being drawn in this extract? 
   
2. What are the parallels between the zoo described at the beginning and the human interactions described in the extract?
   
3. Why do you think this analogy is stated so clearly and directly? What is the effect of that stylistic choice? 
4. How persuasive do you find the analogy as an illustration of how social hierarchy and cultural values keep millions of people in "perpetual servitude"? 

Why do people travel? 

Construct, in your pairs, a global issue that you think is shown in this infographic and is also shown in the reading that you have done so far. Find an extract of not more than 30 lines that you can link to this infographic. 

Articulate the global issue in one sentence. It is not just a topic.

Share you global issue

The Individual Oral prompt 

"Examine the ways in which the global issue (GI) or our choice is presented through the context and form of one of the [literary] works an one of the [non-literary] bodies of work (BOWs) that you have studied" 

IBDP Guide for Language A: Language and Literature, 2019