Grade 11 H.L International Baccalaureate Program Outline and Overview
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 organization 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.
The I.B. Program is divided into four parts. These are as follows:
Part One- Works in Translation
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Novel Study)
Paradise of the Blind (Novel Study)
Death and the Maiden (Drama)
Part Two- Studied in Grade 12
Part Three- Studied in Grade 12
Part Four- Range of Works
Persepolis (Non-fiction Graphic Novel)
Poetry (range of periods)
Contemporary Non-Fiction (Variety of non-fiction articles)
In Grade 11 you will begin with Part 4 and the content will be loosely structured as follows:
Content
The Things they
Carried
Persepolis
Poetry
Notes
A preparation unit to teach the skills
required to write a good commentary
and access literature at an articulate,
interpretive level
Graphic novel used as stimulus for 1/3
of oral assessments
Approximately 10-12 poems from a
range of authors and time periods.
Focus for Learning
-Lit terminology
-Commentary Writing
-Lit conventions
-Reflective writing
-Insights
-Stylistic features/ form
-Soc. and Hist context
-Tracing
-Theme
-Commentary writing
-Lang and Form
Chronicle of a Death
Foretold
Paradise of the Blind
Stimulus for 1/3 of oral assessments
Read over Christmas then complete
close textual analysis in class.
Vietnamese Novel
Death and the Maiden
Creative Writing
Latin-American Play
Creative writing techniques and a
personal narrative
Non-Fiction
Includes 4/5 classes of final 1/3 oral
presentations, discussion of stylistic
devices, patterns of organization,
creative non-fiction and an original nonfiction written piece
-Soc. And His. Context
-Theme
- Narrative style
-Soc. and His Context
-Tracing
-Characterization
-Image/ motif/ symbol
-Dramatic conventions
-Building tension
-Imagery/ language
-Plot
-Characterization
-Symbol/ motif
-Voice
-Stylistic devices
-Rhetoric
-Tone
-Main Idea
-Purpose
-Patterns of
Organization
Assessment:
I.B.
 At some point during the year you will produce an original 10-15min Oral Presentation to the
class responding to one of the three pieces of literature exposed to in Part Four
 You will also be asked to produce a reflective statement of 300-400 words in response to each
presentation that you see from other students (approx ten in total) one of these will be
submitted with your final World Lit essay at the end of the year (see below)
 A second Interactive Oral Presentation (IOP) oral will be delivered during Part One towards the
end of the year. You will be expected to engage in an interactive discussion where you lead the
class on a component from one of the World Lit texts
 At the end of the year one of the reflective statements from the first orals will be used to aid the
construction of a 1200-1500 World Literature essay and both the essay and the reflective
statement will be sent away for assessment and moderation by the board
School-Based
 You will also be assessed on the regular English program in which your teacher will offer regular
grades that will not count for the I.B. diploma but will be recognised for the purposes of
reporting and grading at the end of grade 11. Generally these grades will be inflated to reflect
the added pressures of the IB school curriculum.
Numbers:
Type of Assessment
IOP (Grade 11)
IOC (Grade 12)
WL Essay (Grade 11)
Paper One Commentary (Grade 12)
Paper Two Response (Grade 12)
Marks available
15
15
25
20
25
Total /100
Marking:
17- 20 = 7 (80+) (96)
14 −16 = 6 (68-79) (90)
11 − 13 = 5 (55-67) (86%)
8 − 10 = 4 (31-41) (C+ low B) (73%)
3 pass (50%)
2 fail