English @ St Leonards:
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English @ St Leonards:
Language A1
IB Principles
The IB is motivated by a mission to create a better
world through education.The International
Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring,
knowledgeable and caring young people who help to
create a better and more peaceful world through
intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the IBO works with schools, governments
and International organizations to develop
challenging programmes of international education
and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the
world to become active, compassionate and lifelong
learners who understand that other people, with their
differences, can also be right.
English @ St Leonards:
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IB Principles
The Roles of Teacher and
Student
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=W0fJKvdjQgs
English @ St Leonards:
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IMPORTANT POINTS:
•Higher and Standard Levels
•English at IB level should be
student-led, not spoon-fed!
•World Literature element
•Oral elements: Speak only in
English!
•Skills-based approach
• WHY?
English @ St Leonards:
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ASSESSMENT:
• Individual Oral Presentation
•Individual Oral Commentary
•Comparative World
Literature Coursework
•Exam Paper 1: Unseen
Commentary
•Exam Paper 2: Drama
English @ St Leonards:
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Individual Oral Presentation
(The IOP)
• Usually an expose presentation
•Titles must differ from everyone in
year group
•15% of overall grade
•Internally assessed by teacher
•Teacher’s decision is final
•One-off chance
English @ St Leonards:
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Individual Oral Presentation
TEXTS
-----------• ‘Touched With Fire’ poetry
•Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
(DJ)
•Suskind: Perfume (JJT)
--------------•Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie (Higher level only)
English @ St Leonards:
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Individual Oral Commentary
(The IOC)
• Recorded commentary on work
studied in class
•15% of overall grade
•Internally assessed by teacher, BUT
externally moderated
• Set date – one chance
•20 mins preparation, 15 minutes talk
time on randomly selected extract
English @ St Leonards:
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Individual Oral Commentary
TEXTS
• Shakespeare, MacBeth
•Seamus Heaney’s poetry
•----------------•Atwood, ‘The Penelopiad’ (HL)
•Selected writings of Martin
Luther King
English @ St Leonards:
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World Literature Coursework
• 1500 word maximum limit
•Must be comparative
•On texts written in a language
other than English
•Student choice: individually
chosen
English @ St Leonards:
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World Literature Coursework
TEXTS
•Mann, Death in Venice
•Esquivel, Like Water for
Chocolate
•Murakami, The Elephant
Vanishes (independent study)
English @ St Leonards:
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The Exam: Paper 1
• An commentary on a previously
unseen passage
•Guiding questions
•Teachers advise on how best to
write a good commentary
English @ St Leonards:
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The Exam: Paper 2
• One essay on drama,
chosen from generic
essay titles
•Can choose from
Drama section in
exam, or General
Questions on
Literature
English @ St Leonards:
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The Exam: Paper 2
TEXTS
• Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession
• Ibsen, A Doll’s House
•Williams, Streetcar Named
Desire
•-----------------•Wilde, A Woman of No
Importance (HL)
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Questions
English @ St Leonards:
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GOOD
LUCK!