hi I'm Andrew and I'm Dave and we're the IB English guys this is our second video of our paper 2 Series from start to finish so if you've missed our first video be sure to watch that it's about the nuts and bolts of the paper too we also want to remind you that this paper two video series is really to give you a slice of our paper to Resource which is again a part of our whole school resources yeah our Learners have been very successful with these resources we lead them through the entire assessment Model start to finish for each component so we would like to have you come along with us for the ride so you too can be successful in your IB Endeavors Mr Giles today we're going to talk about a family suburb yeah we like this story very much so if you haven't had time to read it make sure you have because I think you'll get more out of the video again this is a rich Story by kazuo ishiguro he's a Nobel prize-winning author uh and he's he's somebody who has created a very rich text with a lot of Rich symbols to give you a brief synopsis this is a story about post-war Japan takes place in Japan a young man is return turning back to his family home he's returning back to his father and his sister his mother has died and again he's lived in California he's had this Western experience and now he's coming back to visit his somewhat traditional and very kind of emotionally guarded father Mr Childs that was a pretty fantastic synopsis I think you've read the story a few times I have I love this story it's got a lot of tension and it's got a lot of generational differences and it's got a lot of culture in it now like the text you have studied or the text you're thinking about for paper too this is a really rich text and our purpose today is not just to teach you the the nuts and bolts of a family supper but rather we want to show you how to use a graphic organizer and break down a rich text into smaller parts smaller broad authorial choices which you can then use in your comparative paper 2 analysis this is what we talk about of the Wego Yugo mentality So today we're going to go through our graphic organizer for our text and then in the video description is a blank organizer that you your classmates your teacher you can go over together and fill out the broad authorial choices and the ideas for your text yeah that makes sense Mr John that's great I like to see this as this is your foundation of your literary text so before you're going to compare it with another text get a rich understanding yeah there's no comparative work until you've done what we call a one text organizer you do one text you do the other text then you can start doing those Rich comparisons not before yeah again so the first thing we want to think about in our in our chart is really understanding the author and again these are just some broad things that we want to think about with with respect to the author these things can be useful for to help help us have a starting place kazuo isuguro is a British Asian author so he grew up in the UK uh he's a he's a Nobel Prize winner so he's really has lots of critical Acclaim and his texts are very rich and really he's he he himself was born in Japan but he lived overseas and I think that International experience is he brings that out in a water yeah so the idea here is that when you're thinking about your paper to text and completing your organizer you want to think about is there any key biographical or author information that would be critical to help you answer a question maybe you're studying The Kite Runner Mr Giles the fact that Khaled hosseini was born in Afghanistan but grew up in America and is now writing a novel about Afghanistan that has implications for the way we might answer questions this is useful information yeah it's so useful it's really I think again that comes into the understanding now we want to think about the context and setting every text has a time and a place this is one of our areas of exploration so we want to think about that in this case in a family supper this is again modern day Japan but as post-world War II this is part of the setting that we want to think about it's also Kamakura Japan Kamakura has a lot of Rich cultural on significance in Japan right so you want to be thinking about in your text where has the author placed the story what is the setting talk about the context and how is that relevant to answering different types of questions so one thing about setting with this particular story is that it takes place at a in a traditional Japanese home it's fairly dark it's fairly empty and he's got the garden in the back background so these are all the sort of Rich aspects of setting that are not just contact yeah you get a question about atmosphere this is the Box you want to come back to and think about what did you put in this box before you do that comparative analysis Mr Giles it's really important to think about narrative point of view when we look at any text can you talk a little bit about some of the different narrative perspectives and what we could glean from completing this box oh great great question so this is a this again this story is first person point of view and that narrative point of view is so important because you're seeing the story Through The Eyes Of The Sun who returns home he's talking about his experiences with his father with his sister but with that first person point of view what could you be missing as a reader you might be missing what the father feels right because you have to make some inferences about that so you're seeing everything through their eyes so again the point of view of a text is a really rich comparative idea later but it's one to think about that these are our broad authorial choices which make up the backbone of the paper too okay you also want to make sure that you can do a really clear synopsis or plot review and you can see that in the next box here we're not going to go through this in great detail to break down the entire plot of a family supper but the idea here is that with your text you need to make sure you have identified those critical plot points what's in the exposition what's the inciting incident rising action climax balling action resolution where are those elements in your text and make sure that you can pin these moments to specific thematic ideas and then talk about those features yeah we call it a walk through oftentimes where we have to have students walk through the text so they can really without notes be able to summarize what happens yeah teachers make sure your kids are regularly walking through the text without notes that helps them internalize a story that makes them better able to handle all these questions on paper too yeah that's great we want to also think about the narrative structure we want to think about again how does the how does the writer structure this text is it is it written chronologically is it written in a non-linear fashion how can we look at the structure of the Texas did the author drop you into the middle of the story at the beginning is the ending ambiguous you can think about beginning middle and end as well as opposed to just you know how is it chronologically structured it's really really important to talk about marriage times a sophisticated idea in this particular story this story is just from midday when the sun arrives to the to the end of the uh evening when he's ready for to take the family supper and you can compare that to a novel like homegoing by yajasi which spans multiple Generations this is in a day or two right so the time is really important to think about that's right we go ahead now you want to think about characters again characters are so rich to talk about so in this particular story you want to think about the Father the father is unnamed which I think is kind of interesting he's a very like formidable man with black Furious Black eyebrows that was that quote that I thought was interesting remember the quotes yeah he's also he's he's proud of being Japanese and he's proud of his Samurai blood there's a lot of references to the the samurai code and the idea of Honor that's such a rich part of also when we think about characterization we want to think about subcategories as well you might want to think about what a character says you might want to think about what a character thinks the character's effect on others their actions or the characters looks there's an acronym steel which can be really helpful to really think about characterization in great detail that's right we want to think about the sun again the sun his sister his mother and Watanabe these are all characters in this story that again have some some rich detail to be able to unpack and understand each character so important definitely not just characters Mr Giles but conflicts are critical as well we know we have loads of different kinds of conflicts we've been studying since middle school for me these conflicts are really important parts of the novel or whatever text you're studying you'll often find these thematic moments right where the conflict is that the author may choose to accentuate these moments through conflict can you talk about some of the conflicts in a family absolutely so a lot of times we have the conflict between the generational conflicts we have the father-daughter conflict that exists we also have the father son which I think is the central conflict with the sun that's come back and his father who's traditional and the conflict and the inability to understand but also the father has a conflict with himself and again he's struggling he's struggling to see all the changes that Japan is undergoing and trying to deal with the fact that his son has left yeah and his insecurity of that for sure you definitely want to spend some time going through the conflicts with your classmates and your teacher and be be clear here and really think about which Rich thematic ideas can I anchor to these points and that does take us to themes Mr Giles I like to think about topics first we talk about sort of topics and themes in this box yeah so we want to think about again thinking about a topic like cultural heritage like the idea of culture as a topic but then the theme would be you know what is what is that play here and the sort of cultural differences that exist because of the westernization so the topic might be cultural cultural heritage but the theme is that rich can exists I like to think of the sentence stems this is a text about that gives you the topic and then what does the author communicate about this topic that's your theme that's a good way to think about that yeah and also this is a lot about grief and wants so there's like you know aspects of suicide in this text it acts best of death and loss because they're recovering over the loss of their mother uh and again this idea of you know of grief is the topic but again the struggle to overcome that grief is really what the story is about so again these are topics and themes that we see yeah we also have Rich symbols symbols are fun to talk about yeah I think regardless of what text you've read you will be looking at symbols in great detail and these can form the cornerstones of many of your paragraphs obviously in the family supper we see the fugu which is that that dangerous fish that we're unsure about we see the battleship the well ghosts so you want to think about what are the prominent symbols in your paper to text and what do they reveal about the topics of the text and what should they reveal about the Thematic messages of the text as well now we're getting the stuff that I love Mr John the how we know that the author's doing all these things what are some more things notable crap what can we talk about with notable craft yeah we like to think of signature moves what are the signature moves that ishiguro makes in a family supper that we can draw from and use for a myriad of paper two questions this is why this is so important to get a grounding in how does this writer do that one thing that ishiguro does it uses the motif of Darkness there's a lot of light and dark in this story and the Darkness creates a sense of mystery it also creates a sense of kind of mourning and loss and death and the Darkness is there there's also incredible like tension and strain dialogue the dialogue is awkward there's so many unspoken things between this father and the son all these are signature moves that we can draw out and talk about yeah talk about a couple of more like some of this yeah I like to think about this story that has a very non-traditional beginning it sort of gives a definition of fugu and the implications of fugu and then it has a really ambiguous ending these are trademark moves by ishiguru he's very ambiguous he doesn't just give you the idea he makes you struggle and work with it a little bit really exercise that critical thinking muscle yeah a lot of the the last thing we have in our chart and again this a lot of students always ask us do I have to memorize quotes do we have to memorize quotes and I think the answer is no you're not required to memorize you know like 100 quotes for your literary texts however it's nice to walk away with some what we call nuggets of language nuggets of language from the story that we can commit to memory and think about that we can recall for a paper too and so I'll give you some examples what is he calls his father a formidable looking man he's formidable he's intimidating that's the son describing his father I can use that phrase easy to remember what are some other blister sauce there are other things besides work like for me that's a really important line of this of this text and I I didn't study that I just remember it because it was a really impactful moment so the more times you read the text and the more familiar you are with the text these notable nuggets you don't need to study these they'll just stick in your mind and you can use these in your paper to respond yeah his sister says I'm dying for a smoke again this idea of a young Japanese girl going out for a smoke and the way she says that so and so informally shows that she's kind of rebelling away from her culture and again I think that's just like it's done that in my memory very fantastic story I love this story now folks in the end if you look at the video description you'll see a blank graphic organizer down there for you uh we would encourage you to go over this either on your own with a friend with a group of friends as a whole class it could be a collaborative Google doc the choice is yours but the idea is before you could even dream to write a comparative paper to response you have to make sure you understand the content the form the broad authorial choices and the main ideas of your text one first so we encourage you to take this chart uh this is we went now you go with your chart yeah and feel free to use ours we'll we'll link our complete chart you can have a look in more detail we went through some of the aspects you can see kind of our thinking and use that as a model and make yours even better so folks this takes us through video two of our start to finish paper two we'll see you back in the next video where we'll go over the Second Story story and then we'll start doing that rich comparative work but not until we understand each text independently thanks for watching and we'll see you soon good luck guys