Year 10 IB Diploma Preparation Course Guide 2023

ENGLISH A: LITERATURE

Year 10 IB Diploma Preparation Course

SUBJECT OUTLINE Students will focus exclusively on literary texts, adopting a variety of approaches to textual criticism. Students explore the nature of literature, the aesthetic function of literary language and textuality, and the relationship between literature and the world. The course explores elements of language, literature and performance and focuses on: • the relationships between readers, writers and texts • the range and functions of texts across geographical PATHWAYS Year 10 IB Literature prepares students for all the QCE English courses offered at the College in Year 11 and Year 12, as well as the English course offered in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. • As part of the IB Diploma Programme: - Language A: Literature • As part of the Queensland Certificate of Education: - English - Literature space and historical time • aspects of intertextuality.

AIMS FOR PRE-IB DIPLOMA ENGLISH A: LITERATURE The aims of the teaching of IB Literature are to encourage and enable students to: use language as a vehicle for thought, creativity, reflection, learning, self expression, analysis and social interaction  develop the skills involved in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and presenting in a variety of contexts  develop critical, creative and personal approaches to studying and analysing literary and non-literary texts engage with text from different historical periods and a variety of cultures  explore and analyse aspects of personal, host and other cultures through literary and non-literary texts  explore language through a variety of media and modes  develop a lifelong interest in reading  apply linguistic and literary concepts and skills in a variety of authentic contexts.  

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