Year 11 IB Assessment Booklet 2020

YEAR 11 IB LANGUAGE A: LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE The course follows three Areas of Exploration: Readers, writers and texts; Time and Space; and Intertextuality. They will be explored through the investigation of 13 texts (at HL) from 4 genres, time periods and continents and will include some texts in translation. TWO-YEAR SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

Assessment Item Individual Oral (T3, 2020)

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Oral Presentation based on a Global issue and its treatment in texts studied This component consists of a 1200– 1500 essay written during the course. Students will be asked to develop a line of inquiry of their own choice in relation to one of the works studied. This line of inquiry could be related to the central concepts of the course. The paper consists of two passages, from two different literary forms, each accompanied by a question. Students will be asked to write a separate analysis of each of the passages. The paper consists of four general questions. In response to one of those questions, students will be asked to write a comparative essay based on two works studied in the course. ASSESSMENT OUTLINE

20%

HL Essay (T2, 2021)

20%

Paper 1 Guided Literary Analysis (T4, 2021)

35%

Paper 2 Comparative Essay (T4, 2021)

25%

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Assessment Practice Paper 1

Date

1

T1 Wk 9

Fight Club The Comfort of Strangers

2

Mock Paper 1 Mock Paper 2

S1 Examination S1 Examination

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Slaughterhouse Five The Color Purple In the Skin of a Lion

3

Individual Oral Mock

T3 Wk 6

4

Mock Paper 1 Mock Paper 2

S2 Examination S2 Examination

Uncle Vanya Ake

26