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How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a text?

How do we approach texts from different times and cultures to our own?

To what extent do texts offer insight into another culture?

How does the meaning and impact of a text change over time?

How do texts reflect, represent or form a part of cultural practices?

How does language represent social distinctions & identities?

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Identity

Culture

Perspective

Communication

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Paper 1

Internal Assessment

HL Essay

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In both literary works, identity and alienation are key ideas explored. Students will be tasked with understanding the protagonists' cultural background and how it affects their identity and perspective in the regions or countries they have moved into and how differently they communicate their discomfort. These would be further explored through non-literary texts such as cartoons and articles, which build on the issue of alienation that migrants face.

This will be done through inquiry, conceptual understanding, local & global contexts & assessments (formative and summative)

Through thinking skills, students would be looking at how migrants are perceived in both works and texts. They would be expected to critique local reception towards migrants at the global level as well. And notice if students notice any parallels between the literary works  and the non-literary texts. This allows them to be more perceptive towards the cultural backgrounds and notice that it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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This unit aims to equip students to be more sensitive in understanding the migrant and local's point-of-view. Why aren't locals accepting of migrants? What makes them alienate them? What factors prevent migrants from assimilating or adapting to their new environment?

This will be done through thinking skills, communication skills, research skills and conceptual understanding.

Students would be tasked in finding out the rising xenophobic sentiments targeted towards migrants and notice the similarities seen in their literary works and non-literary texts.

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Intra-migration

How are migrants perceived? How does identity/race hinder one from progressing? How do migrants react? What are the historical and cultural factors that result in them being isolated?

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External migration focusing mainly on Part 2: Story of a Return

How are migrants perceived? What issues do they face? What are some cultural factors preventing them from being accepted?

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By exposing students to a variety of views revolving around migration, students would be able to pick out biases and question their own beliefs' validity. Some of these sources could include The Guardian,  Breitbart, or The Onion (useful for satire)

This would also allow them to pay close attention to the rhetoric used to perceive migrants and the impact it has on the protagonists & audience. (How does language represent social distinction and identities?)

Plus, they would be more sensitive to the needs of migrants and their struggles in surviving in a new country. This could come in useful as they look into relating to global issues for their IA and question if such xenophobic sentiments persist or are subverted, or even practice for their Paper 1

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Exposing students to various political cartoons from a wide political spectrum, and narrowing it down to The Nib, students would be able to pick out structural and stylistic features, and gain further insight about the context that leads to the production of these cartoons.

This might even lead them to explore TOK-related questions: Does emotion hinder the migration process? To what extent does one's culture isolate them in a new environment?

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teacher-guided extracts of Persepolis Part 2 and Black boy

student-led group presentations that highlight the contextual background of the literary works that depict the dislocation and alienation migrants face

annotations of non-literary texts and critique to what extent context affects content

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Some TED Talk videos could be explored first to gain first-hand experience about the issues migrants face and this would help students in understanding the respective historical and cultural context, the barriers migrants have to overcome, the challenges they face, as well as guide them in bridging their literary works with their non-literary texts for their IAs.

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