International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Language A: Language and Literature · HL
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Handouts · AP English Language and Composition (9)
- 1. Claims, Evidence, and the Rhetorical Situation
- 2. Audience, Thesis, and Supporting Evidence
- 3. Line of Reasoning and Methods of Development
- 4. Introductions, Conclusions, and Development
- 5. Organization, Coherence, and Style
- 6. Evidence, Thesis, and Stylistic Choices
- 7. Qualifying Arguments, Syntax, and Conventions
- 8. Audience, Tone, and Sentence Craft
- 9. Refining Qualified Arguments
Exercise sheets · AP English Language and Composition (49)
- 1.1 Components of the rhetorical situation
- 1.2 Identifying claims and evidence
- 1.3 Developing a paragraph with claim and evidence
- 2.1 Understanding an audience's beliefs and needs
- 2.2 Writing for an audience's beliefs and needs
- 2.3 Identifying claims and evidence
- 2.4 Developing a paragraph with claim and evidence
- 2.5 Identifying the overarching thesis
- 2.6 Writing a thesis statement
- 3.1 Identifying claims and evidence
- 3.2 Developing a paragraph with claim and evidence
- 3.3 Describing the line of reasoning
- 3.4 Developing a line of reasoning and commentary
- 3.5 Recognizing methods of development
- 3.6 Using methods of development
- 4.1 Components of the rhetorical situation
- 4.2 Writing introductions and conclusions
- 4.3 Identifying the overarching thesis
- 4.4 Writing a thesis statement
- 4.5 Recognizing methods of development
- 4.6 Using methods of development
- 5.1 Describing the line of reasoning
- 5.2 Developing a line of reasoning and commentary
- 5.3 Organization, unity, and coherence
- 5.4 Using transitional elements
- 5.5 Word choice, comparisons, and syntax
- 5.6 Using words and syntax for tone and style
- 6.1 Identifying claims and evidence
- 6.2 Developing a paragraph with claim and evidence
- 6.3 Identifying the overarching thesis
- 6.4 Writing a thesis statement
- 6.5 Word choice, comparisons, and syntax
- 6.6 Using words and syntax for tone and style
- 7.1 Components of the rhetorical situation
- 7.2 Writing introductions and conclusions
- 7.3 How claims are qualified
- 7.4 Qualifying a claim
- 7.5 Clauses and relationships between ideas
- 7.6 Writing clear sentences
- 7.7 Grammar, mechanics, and clarity
- 7.8 Conventions of grammar and mechanics
- 8.1 Understanding an audience's beliefs and needs
- 8.2 Writing for an audience's beliefs and needs
- 8.3 Word choice, comparisons, and syntax
- 8.4 Using words and syntax for tone and style
- 8.5 Clauses and relationships between ideas
- 8.6 Writing clear sentences
- 9.1 How claims are qualified
- 9.2 Qualifying a claim
Presentation slides · AP English Language and Composition (9)
- 1. Claims, Evidence, and the Rhetorical Situation
- 2. Audience, Thesis, and Supporting Evidence
- 3. Line of Reasoning and Methods of Development
- 4. Introductions, Conclusions, and Development
- 5. Organization, Coherence, and Style
- 6. Evidence, Thesis, and Stylistic Choices
- 7. Qualifying Arguments, Syntax, and Conventions
- 8. Audience, Tone, and Sentence Craft
- 9. Refining Qualified Arguments
Course units and learning goals
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Readers, writers and texts · English non-literary analysis
- Analyse audience, purpose, register and multimodal choices
- Support interpretations of a non-literary text with precise evidence
- register
- Language choices suited to a purpose, audience and situation.
- visual hierarchy
- Arrangement that gives some elements greater prominence.
Time and space; intertextuality · Literary comparison and context
- Compare authorial choices across two selected literary works
- Explain how contexts shape meaning without reducing a work to biography
- intertextuality
- Connections and relationships among texts.
- narrative voice
- The perspective and manner through which a narrative is told.
Individual oral · A global issue across literary and non-literary work
- Form a focused global issue and select relevant extracts
- Balance extract analysis with whole-work or body-of-work discussion
- global issue
- An issue of wider significance that operates in local contexts.
- authorial choice
- A deliberate formal or linguistic decision shaping meaning.
HL essay · A sustained line of inquiry
- Develop a focused line of inquiry into a selected work or body of work
- Revise a 1200–1500-word analytical argument with accurate citation
- line of inquiry
- A focused direction guiding analysis.
- thesis
- The central claim developed in an argument.
Preparing for this qualification
- SL: one unseen analysis Paper 1 75 min 35%, comparative Paper 2 105 min 35%, individual oral 30%. HL: two unseen analyses Paper 1 135 min 35%, Paper 2 105 min 25%, HL essay 20%, oral 20%.
- English is the teaching focus. SL studies four literary works, HL six, plus non-literary bodies of work. School chooses texts under the guide; oral connects one literary work and one non-literary body of work through a global issue.
Teaching coverage still needed
- School-selected four/six literary works and non-literary bodies of work need detailed teaching and exact guide eligibility/reuse checks.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
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