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Drama

Poetry

Prose: non-fiction

Prose: fiction

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Possible Response Questions for Refleciton

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Possible Response Questions for Refleciton

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1. How does this text explore differences gender, race, or social status?

2. How do parts of this text help us understand the meaning of the whole text?

3. Does this text borrow from, or remind you of, another text?

4. Imagine someone from the future or the past encountering this text—what parts of it might take on another meaning? What parts would seem strange or difficult to understand?

5. How might this text help us understand the diversity of human experience?

6. Interpret this text by translating it into another text type: put a visual text into words, draw a written text, create a poem in response, etc.

7. Create a prompt of your own in response to one of the UN Sustainability Goals.

8. Record an excerpt of this text that stands out to you and describe why.

9. Describe how one of the conceptual understandings applies to this text.

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1. Why and how do we study language and literature?

2. How are we affected by texts in various ways?

3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted?

4. How does language use vary amongst text types and amongst literary forms?

5. How does the structure or style of a text affect meaning?

6. How do texts offer insights and challenges?

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

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

3. To what extent do texts offer insight into another culture?

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

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

6. How does language represent social distinctions and identities?

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1. How do texts adhere to and deviate from conventions associated with literary forms or text types?

2. How do conventions and systems of reference evolve over time?

3. In what ways can diverse texts share points of similarity?

4. How valid is the notion of a classic text?

5. How can texts offer multiple perspectives of a single issue, topic or theme?

6. In what ways can comparison and interpretation be transformative?

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Global Issues: A global issue is an area of concern that is experienced locally, nationally, and transnationally. Global Issues are most often linked to tangible problems which demand solutions or mitigation.

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Global Issues: A global issue is an area of concern that is experienced locally, nationally, and transnationally. Global Issues are most often linked to tangible problems which demand solutions or mitigation.

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Global Issues originate from the five FIELDS of INQUIRY:

▪ CULTURE, IDENTITY, COMMUNITY

▪ BELIEFS, VALUES, EDUCATION

▪ POLITICS, POWER, JUSTICE

▪ ART, CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION

▪ SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

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1. Identity

2. Culture

3. Creativity

4. Communication

5. Perspective

6. Transformation

7. Representation

*These concepts run through all 3 areas of exploration.

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Assessment Objectives

Know, understand and interpret:

• a range of texts, works and/or performances, and their meanings and implications

• contexts in which texts are written and/or received

• elements of literary, stylistic, rhetorical, visual and/or performance craft

• features of particular text types and literary forms.

Analyse and evaluate:

• ways in which the use of language creates meaning

• uses and effects of literary, stylistic, rhetorical, visual or theatrical techniques

• relationships among different texts

• ways in which texts may offer perspectives on human concerns.

Communicate:

• ideas in clear, logical and persuasive ways

• in a range of styles, registers and for a variety of purposes and situations

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❖ Higher Level Essay: Students submit to the IB an essay on one non-literary body of work, or a literary work studied during the course. (1200-1500 words) -written in junior year

❖ Internal Individual Oral (IO): internally assessed by the teacher and externally moderated by the IB at the end of the course. Students prepare a 10-minute response, supported by an extract from one non-literary body of work and one literary work in response to this prompt: "Examine the ways in which the global issue of your choice is presented through the content and form of one of the works and one of the bodies of work that you have studied." -recorded in the fall of senior year

❖ Paper #1 (Guided textual analysis) The paper consists of two non-literary passages, from two different text types, each accompanied by a question. Students write an analysis of each of the passages. -IB senior external exam

❖ Paper #2 (Comparative essay) Students select 1 of 4 prompts and write a comparative essay based on two literary works studied in the course. -IB senior external exam

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Writing tools and techniques/elements or aspects

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Writing tools and techniques/elements or aspects

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Diction with an intentional effect

Figurative language: metaphor, personification, simile, hyperbole

Symbolism

Repitition

Alliteration

Oxymoron

Allusion

Imagery-5 sense

Rhyme

Rhythm

Onomatopoeia

Structure-plot

Narrative: plot, POV, character, tone, setting, mood, conflict

Rhetoric-appeals