Year 10 IB Diploma Preparation Course Guide 2023

STRUCTURE Semester 1

Semester 2

Unit 1: Introduction to Close Reading – Diverse Texts on Diversity

Unit 3: Time and Space – A journey in verse

In this unit students will engage with a close study of poetry, starting with the sonnets of Shakespeare, dipping into Romantic poetry, entering the 20 th century with Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, then concluding with poet/rapper Kendrick Lamar.

In this unit students read and analyse a number of Indigenous non-fiction texts as well as the graphic novel La Guardia by Nnedi Okorafor

Unit 2: Readers, Writers and Texts - Dystopian Lit I

Unit 4: Intertextuality – Dystopian Lit II

In this unit students will engage with the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

In this unit students will engage with the play After the Blast by Zoe Kazan and the short stories of J.G. Ballard

ASSESSMENT

In Year 10 IB Literature students complete four summative assessments and a variety of formative tasks. Summative assessments Semester 1 Criteria Assessed Semester 2 Criteria Assesse d Written Response for a Public Audience Paper 1 style Individual Oral IO style Semester 1 Examination: Guided Literary Analysis Paper 1 style Semester 2 Examination: Analytical Essay Paper 2 style

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